Modernist painter, socialist realist, Holocaust survivor, and student of the Parisian Avant Garde, Jewish-Polish artist Henryk Streng was extraordinary for his aesthetic innovation during the two major traumas of 20th-century European history, the Holocaust and Stalinism.
Using artworks by Berthe Morisot, douard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and others, The Art of Parisian Chic explores how women and artists in Impressionist Paris (1855-1885) crafted their public images to exploit and resist stereotypes.
The first part of Volume 14 of the Yearbook presents ten essays concerned with Futurism in Italy, Russia, Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Germany, and two focusing on dance and typography.
This volume explores the relationship between oneiric and historical episodes of atrocity as depicted in transnational twentieth- and twenty-first-century art, film, literature and theatre.
Severo Sarduy was among the most important figures in twentieth-century Latin American fiction and a major representative of the literary tendency to which he gave the name Neobaroque.
Globalization has quickened the process of communication across the world, creating changes in material and non-material culture with the flow of ideas.
The Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 and the ensuing communist regime have often been portrayed as a man's revolution, with women as bystanders or even victims.
This book examines the reception of Graeco-Roman sculptures of Venus and their role in the construction of the body aesthetics of the fit American woman in the decades around the turn of the 20th century.
Die kunstwissenschaftliche Perspektivierung auf Heiner Müllers Werk lässt gänzlich neue Bezugssysteme und Lesarten zu und widmet sich der Erforschung bislang wenig erschlossener Dimensionen seines Gesamtkunstwerks.
What did it mean for painter Lee Krasner to be an artist and a woman if, in the culture of 1950s New York, to be an artist was to be Jackson Pollock and to be a woman was to be Marilyn Monroe?
