MODERNISM, MADNESS AND THE AMERICAN DREAM
About a year ago I suggested to Sharon that she might want to record an audio version of her book Burning Woman, Memoirs of an Elder. I think my wife has a lovely, dulcet, low voice and that she would narrate her own book beautifully. I would be her producer, director, and sound engineer. Neither […]
Previously, in The Pavilion of New Times, Paul encountered the work and ideas of the great French architect, Le Corbusier at the 1937 Paris International Exposition. A few months later he is given the chance to apprentice to the master… In London Pál worked happily for Moholy-Nagy for a year, (as described in Beauty, Art, and The […]
While apprenticed to the famous architect Le Corbusier in Paris, Paul struggled to formulate his own ideas on architecture, amid the cacophony of theories and slogans being bandied about by Modernists. Scribbling in cafes and on park benches, on long summer evenings and weekends, he wrote a rambling manifesto. Its introduction is a […]
I am in possession of two curious drawings made my by father in late 1939. They are cartoon sketches of Pouqui and Mouqui, the love names my parents gave each other. The drawing shows them settled into their apartment in La Paz, Bolivia. Furniture and personal effects are carefully labeled in French. By naming these […]
Among the boxes I received from my family upon my father’s passing there is one that contains several bulging folders of correspondence, both personal and professional, with the French artist Jean Dubuffet. The fact that these folders were in my father’s personal files, rather than in the archives of Weidlinger Associates, is significant. Dubuffet was […]
Throughout my work on this project the past has had an uncanny way of becoming suddenly and unexpectedly manifest in the present. This happened recently when I was recording character voice-overs for the film. I needed someone with a Hungarian accent, who was also a fluent English speaker, to read the parts of two people […]
I am happy to report that The Restless Hungarian has been awarded a Gold Medal for Biography at the 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards. “IPPY” awards, launched twenty-four years ago, are the longest running book award for books published by university and independent presses. If you’ve been reading and enjoying my blog and have not […]
The audio book of THE RESTLESS HUNGARIAN, Modernism, Madness and the American Dream, narrated by the author, is now available on Audible and Amazon. We are giving away 25 free downloads of the book. THE GIVEAWAY RULES Send an email to the Restless Hungarian through the CONTACT button on the website. Make sure […]
On New Year’s Eve day I put my chainsaw in the back of our old pick-up and drove over to our neighbors to cull some firewood from a huge pile of branches and small trunks that Vicki and Dave cleared from their land. I wrote to you about Dave’s sudden passing a couple of […]