Some of his imagery refers to the decadent glamor of the Weimar Republic's cabaret culture, but from the 1930s on, his works often contain mythologized references to the brutalities of the Nazis.

Although Empire was a prolific producer and DJ at this time, and made a comfortable enough living, he nevertheless saw the rave scene as decadent and selfish.

Back in May 1890 Liubov Gurevich, having found herself at the helm of the revamped Severny Vestnik, turned a former narodnik's safe haven into the exciting club for the newly born stars of the rising experimental literature scene ( labelled ' decadent ' by its opponents ).

In 1927, Bacon was taken by Harcourt-Smith to the opulent, decadent, " wide open " Berlin of the Weimar Republic, where they stayed together at the Hotel Adlon.

After almost two years of a glamorous life among intellectuals and artists in decadent Berlin, Eva decided to visit Russia at the age of 26 ( 1932 ).

The decadent and financially precarious life with the increasingly alcohol-dependent Przybyszewski in Berlin was far from a suitable environment to raise children.

The latter path was championed by Slavophiles, who heaped scorn on the " decadent " West.

Oscar Wilde, famous anarchist irish people | irish writer of the decadent movement and famous dandyThe English enlightenment political theorist William Godwin was an important influence as mentioned before.

Rousseau asserted that the stage of human development associated with what he called " savages " was the best and most optimal in human development, between the less-than optimal extreme of brute animals on the one hand and the extreme of decadent civilization on the other.

Rousseau held that this third savage stage of human societal development was an optimum, between the extreme of the state of brute animals and animal-like " ape-men " on the one hand, and the extreme of decadent civilized life on the other.

Even the decadent Lord Byron was scandalized by the prospect of people " embracing " on the dance floor.

He stated in the interview that he was " never interested " in the " decadent lifestyle " of his band days, choosing not to take drugs or drink alcohol.

Between these policies, invasions into China from Turkic nomads, and his growing life of decadent luxury at the expense of the peasantry, he lost public support and was eventually assassinated by his own ministers.

It ’ s all become really decadent now, but it was certainly fresh then.

He replaced Tyrone Power, who was originally cast in the role of Marcellus, a noble but decadent Roman in command of the detachment of Roman soldiers that crucified Jesus Christ, who, haunted by his guilt from this act, is eventually led to his own conversion.

After the Caliphate was dismembered in 1015, a new, more decadent, era started.

It was seen as an example of " decadent " literature.

The description of des Esseintes ' " alluring liaison " with a " cherry-lipped youth " was believed to influence other writers of the decadent movement, including Oscar Wilde.

Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa or simply Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (; 24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901 ) was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and illustrator, whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 1800s yielded a collection of exciting, elegant and provocative images of the modern and sometimes decadent life of those times.

This, however, was rejected by some members of the Communist party, who did not appreciate modern styles such as Impressionism and Cubism, since these movements existed before the revolution and were thus associated with " decadent bourgeois art.

" Socialist realism was, to some extent, a reaction against the adoption of these " decadent " styles.

In painting, symbolism can be seen as a revival of some mystical tendencies in the Romantic tradition, and was close to the self-consciously morbid and private decadent movement.

He viewed the Russian nobility as decadent and corrupt, and was determined to transform them into a disciplined, principled, loyal caste resembling a medieval chivalric order.

Much of the French poetry produced during the fin de siècle was characterized as " decadent " for its lurid content or moral vision.

The prison authorities, embarrassed by publicity sensationalizing alleged decadent behavior in the prison, ruled that Day's attack on Loeb was in self-defense.

His ugly, lazy appearance on coins ( common among the last Seleucids ), together with stories of his lavish banquets, made posterity believe his dynasty was degenerated and decadent.

This culture was often considered to be decadent, and socially, morally, destructive.

Strawberry was mentioned during an episode of 30 Rock when Alec Baldwin's character, Jack Donaghy, says " Now this is decadent.

Music journalist Dave Rimmer considered the peak of the movement was the Live Aid concert of July 1985, after which " everyone seemed to take hubristic tumbles ", and Simon Reynolds also notes the " Do They Know Its Christmas " single in late 1984 and Live Aid in 1985 as a turning points, with the movement seen as having become decadent, with " overripe arrangements and bloated videos " for songs like Duran Duran's " The Wild Boys " and Culture Club's " War Song ".

On 9 September 1958, the Literary Gazette critic Viktor Pertsov retaliated by denouncing, " the decadent religious poetry of Pasternak, which reeks of mothballs from the Symbolist suitcase of 1908-10 manufacture.

If a nation continues on this path without resistance, Gini claimed the nation would enter a final decadent stage where the nation would degenerate as noted by decreasing birth rate, decreasing cultural output, and the lack of imperial conquest.

At this point, the decadent nation with its aging population can be overrun by a more youthful and vigorous nation.

In Occupied France, jazz and bebop music plus the jitterbug were banned by the Nazis as decadent American influences, so members of the Resistance met at hidden underground dance clubs called discotheques ( fr.

His contemporaries associated him with Socrates as a leader of a decadent intellectualism, both of them being frequently lampooned by comic poets such as Aristophanes.

These to some extent live up to the promise of the ` decadent ' aesthetic suggested by their titles ; Daydreams, Happiness of Eternal Night, and After Death.

In Italy, another country somewhat isolated filmically by the war, the same kind of realization of the fin-de-siecle decadent symbolist aesthetic can be found, mostly in films associated with the " diva " phenomenon.

Mussolini claimed that capitalism had degenerated in three stages, starting with dynamic or heroic capitalism ( 1830 – 1870 ), followed by static capitalism ( 1870 – 1914 ), and reaching its final form of decadent capitalism or " supercapitalism " beginning in 1914.

It portrayed the War as a great moral crusade against a decadent Southern civilization corrupted by slavery.

These planetary romances describe a desert Mars populated by barbarian warriors and citizens of decadent city-states, coming into explosive contact with Terran civilization.

The younger man is Mark Antony being lured by the wiles of the reclining woman ( who is Cleopatra, with the snake being an asp ) into losing his manly romanitas and becoming decadent, with the bearded elder male figure being his mythical ancestor Anton looking on.

Yet, in the children of Buddenbrook Jr., the materially comfortable style of life provided by the dedication to solid, middle-class values elicits decadence: The fickle daughter, Toni, lacks and seeks no purpose in life ; son Christian is honestly decadent, and lives the life of a ne ’ er-do-well ; and the businessman son, Thomas, who assumes command of the Buddenbrook family fortune, occasionally falters from middle-class solidity by being interested in art and philosophy, the impractical life of the mind, which, to the bourgeoisie, is the epitome of social, moral, and material decadence.

He exclaimed: " I am very pleased at the idea that this woman, with her severe and authoritarian presence, should figure in the decadent and rarefied climate of the world described by Proust ".

Its synopsis is similar to Chambers's imaginary play: a masquerade is held by decadent members of the aristocracy.

Several young writers were derisively referred to by the press as " decadent " during the mid 1880s.

The symbolist and decadent literary styles were satirized by a book of poetry, Les Déliquescences d ' Adoré Floupette, published in 1885 by Henri Beauclair and Gabriel Vicaire.