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Delvau speaks? at one point? of the future Benedictines who will write the history<br />

of Paris as it was in the nineteenth century." Alfred Delvau? Les Dessous de Paris<br />

(Paris , 1860), 1'. 32 ("Alexandre Privat d'Anglemont"). [S4,3]<br />

lugendstil and socialist housing policy: "<strong>The</strong> art of the future will be more personal<br />

than what has come before. At no other time has man's passion for self'knowledge<br />

been so strong as it is today? and the place where he can best fulfill and<br />

transform his individuality is the house, the house which each of us, according to<br />

his . .. heares desire, will build . ... In each of us slumbers a gift for ornamental<br />

invention ... sufficiently compelling . .. to allow us to dispense with any nridclleman<br />

in order to build our house.' ? Mter citing these lines from van de Velde's<br />

Renalssance in modernen Kunstgewerbe < Renaissance in the Modern Decorative<br />

Arts>, Kurski continues: " For anyone who reads this, it must be absolutely clear<br />

that such an ideal is impossible in the present state of society, and that its realization<br />

is reserved for socialism." J. Karski, ('IoModel'ne Kunststromungen und Sozialismus,"<br />

Die nene Zeit, 20, no. 1 (Stuttgart

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