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The town’s artistic and commercial worlds have joined forces in recent years to preserve the old business district’s handsome turn-of-the-century architecture as a lively shopping and restaurant neighborhood, north of Notre-Dame Avenue between Princess Street and Main Street.
A smart opinion piece in the Journal argues that Buchanan is not an American populist so much as a pre-war, European-style Christian Socialist like Karl Lueger, Vienna's turn-of-the-century mayor.
Although we think of photomontage primarily as a medium of the combative period of modernism--Dada, Surrealism, Constructivism--its use goes back well into the 19 th century, and was routine in turn-of-the-century pop culture in postcards and prints.
While the comparison between the modern-day "Patriot movement" to which McVeigh belongs and the turn-of-the-century anarchist movement is worth making, the contrasts, rather than similarities, are what stand out.
If Barcelona’s given you’ve the design bug, there are two excellent shops that specialize in design and are well worth a visit, as much for their contents as for the spectacular turn-of-the-century palaces that house them: B.D.