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The Bauhaus school, led by German architect Walter Gropius from 1919, worked to do away with the ornamentation and pretenses of bourgeois society.
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Their desire to evoke the "primitive" and, therefore, the "authentic, " was as much perhaps even more a challenge to the constraints of bourgeois society as a challenge to traditional aesthetic values.
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He also knew the French Impressionists' paintings of expansive avenues, exquisite vistas and elegant bourgeois society that marked the stunning transformation of Napoleon III's Paris into a gleaming, modern metropolis.
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Thanks to his mother who bribed a teacher at a state school, Marc escaped the narrow confines of the world of East European Jewry, learnt to speak Russian instead of Yiddish and eventually made contact with the bourgeois, cosmopolitan society in St Petersburg.
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What's more, arch-leftists, such as octogenarian Deng Liqun, maintain a power base within the ruling party, periodically denouncing the "bourgeois liberalism" of contemporary society.
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