Thomas Robert Mann (born 1947) is an American jewelry artist known primarily for his metalsmithing and assemblage techniques. Combining industrial-style metals with found trinkets and baubles, Mann has dubbed his style "Techno-Romantic" and runs Studio I/O in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he now lives and works. Early life and education Mann was born in Northampton, Pennsylvania and raised in Allentown, Pennsylvania. His father was a machinist for Bethlehem Steel, an influence to which Mann credits his "fondness for machinery." While in high school, Mann experimented with jewelry-making and worked at a silversmith shop in Allentown. The jewelry he sold during his teen years helped fund his education at East Stroudsburg University, where he earned a degree in performing arts in 1970. In 1977, Mann began exhibiting at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and later established his home and studio in New Orleans in 1982. Selected collections Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Smithsonian American Art Museum

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“To place Russian communism on the same moral level with Nazi fascism, because both are totalitarian, is, at best, superficial, in the worse case it is fascism. He who insists on this equality may be a democrat; in truth and in his heart, he is already a fascist, and will surely fight fascism with insincerity and appearance, but with complete hatred only communism.”
— Essays, ed. by H.Kurzke, Frankfurt 1986, vol. 2, p. 311
“If Goethe claimed towards the end of his life that every reasonable person is a moderate Liberal, then in our time one must say: Every reasonable person is a moderate Socialist.”
— As quoted in The New York Times (18 June 1950); also in Thomas Mann: A Critical Study (1971) by R. J. Hollingdale, Ch. 2
“I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.”
— Ch. 5, as translated by David Luke
“It is a cruel atmosphere down there, cruel and ruthless.”
— Hans Castorp on the world outside the sanatorium, in Ch. 5
“Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact — it is silence which isolates.”
— Ch. 6
“O scenes of the beautiful world! Never have you presented yourself to more appreciative eyes.”
— Bk. 2, Ch. 4

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Thomas Robert Mann (born 1947) is an American jewelry artist known primarily for his metalsmithing and assemblage techniques. Combining industrial-style metals with found trinkets and baubles, Mann has dubbed his style "Techno-Romantic" and runs Studio I/O in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he now lives and works. Early life and education Mann was born in Northampton, Pennsylvania and raised in Allentown, Pennsylvania. His father was a machinist for Bethlehem Steel, an influence to which Mann credits his "fondness for machinery." While in high school, Mann experimented with jewelry-making and worked at a silversmith shop in Allentown. The jewelry he sold during his teen years helped fund his education at East Stroudsburg University, where he earned a degree in performing arts in 1970. In 1977, Mann began exhibiting at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and later established his home and studio in New Orleans in 1982. Selected collections Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Smithsonian American Art Museum

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Thomas Robert Mann (born 1947) is an American jewelry artist known primarily for his metalsmithing and assemblage techniques. Combining industrial-style metals with found trinkets and baubles, Mann has dubbed his style "Techno-Romantic" and runs Studio I/O in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he now lives and works.

Notable quotes

“To place Russian communism on the same moral level with Nazi fascism, because both are totalitarian, is, at best, superficial, in the worse case it is fascism. He who insists on this equality may be a democrat; in truth and in his heart, he is already a fascist, and will surely fight fascism with insincerity and appearance, but with complete hatred only communism.”
— Essays, ed. by H.Kurzke, Frankfurt 1986, vol. 2, p. 311
“If Goethe claimed towards the end of his life that every reasonable person is a moderate Liberal, then in our time one must say: Every reasonable person is a moderate Socialist.”
— As quoted in The New York Times (18 June 1950); also in Thomas Mann: A Critical Study (1971) by R. J. Hollingdale, Ch. 2
“I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.”
— Ch. 5, as translated by David Luke
“It is a cruel atmosphere down there, cruel and ruthless.”
— Hans Castorp on the world outside the sanatorium, in Ch. 5
“Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact — it is silence which isolates.”
— Ch. 6
“O scenes of the beautiful world! Never have you presented yourself to more appreciative eyes.”
— Bk. 2, Ch. 4

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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