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Käthe Kollwitz. »Ich will wirken in dieser Zeit«Auswahl aus den Tagebüche…
Mit ihrem Werkzyklus zu den Weberaufständen und ihren Denkmälern für die Toten des Ersten Weltkrieges fand sie eindrückliche Bilder für Leid, Trauer und Schmerz – in ihren schriftlichen Selbstzeugnissen wird die Grafikerin und Bildhauerin Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945) als Mensch und als Künstlerin erfahrbar, die vor allem durch ihr Werk sprechen wollte. Nur auf Drängen ihres Sohnes Han…
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Ciò che una donna può fareLe grandi artiste nella storia dell'arte italiana
Un'inedita storia dell'arte italiana tutta al femminile. Sfogliando un qualsiasi manuale o il nostro libro del liceo, sembra che la storia dell'arte italiana sia stata fatta solo da uomini. Per quanto si cerchi tra le pagine e gli indici dei nomi, delle donne non c'è quasi traccia, tranne qualche specchietto in cui le artiste appaiono come stravaganti curiosità . L'arte italiana è dunque escl…
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Renaissance WomanThe Life of Vittoria Colonna
A biography of Vittoria Colonna, confidante of Michelangelo, scion of one of the most powerful families of her era, and a pivotal figure in the Italian Renaissance Ramie Targoff's Renaissance Woman tells of the most remarkable woman of the Italian Renaissance: Vittoria Colonna, Marchesa of Pescara. Vittoria has long been celebrated by scholars of Michelangelo as the artist's best friend—the t…
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Ans WestraA life in photography
In a career that spanned six decades, the Dutch-Kiwi photographer Ans Westra (1936–2023) made it her life's work to capture the growth of a nation through hundreds of thousands of images. Her photographic catalogue is now widely thought of as a photo album of Aotearoa New Zealand. This richly illustrated biography interrogates her remarkable — and at times controversial — practice, and a…
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Chaim PotokConfronting Modernity Through the Lens of Tradition
Chaim Potok was a world-class writer and scholar, a Conservative Jew who wrote from and about his tradition and the conflicts between observance and acculturation. With a plain, straightforward style, his novels were set against the moral, spiritual, and intellectual currents of the twentieth century. This collection aims to widen the lens through which we read Chaim Potok and to establish him …
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Traces of a Jewish ArtistThe Lost Life and Work of Rahel Szalit
Graphic artist, illustrator, painter, and cartoonist Rahel Szalit (1888–1942) was among the best-known Jewish women artists in Weimar Berlin. But after she was arrested by the French police and then murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz, she was all but lost to history, and most of her paintings have been destroyed or gone missing. Drawing on a range of primary and secondary sources, this biogra…
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With Darkness Came StarsA Memoir
Only in the darkest moments of our lives do the brightest stars appear. An artist, mother, teacher, and rebel, Audrey Flack is counted among the most important American artists of the twentieth century. In With Darkness Came Stars, she recounts and reflects upon a life fully lived. Flack came up in the New York art scene when the city was fast becoming a world arts center. She had a studio in…
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Traces of a Jewish ArtistThe Lost Life and Work of Rahel Szalit
Graphic artist, illustrator, painter, and cartoonist Rahel Szalit (1888–1942) was among the best-known Jewish women artists in Weimar Berlin. But after she was arrested by the French police and then murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz, she was all but lost to history, and most of her paintings have been destroyed or gone missing. Drawing on a range of primary and secondary sources, this biogra…
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With Darkness Came StarsA Memoir
Only in the darkest moments of our lives do the brightest stars appear. An artist, mother, teacher, and rebel, Audrey Flack is counted among the most important American artists of the twentieth century. In With Darkness Came Stars, she recounts and reflects upon a life fully lived. Flack came up in the New York art scene when the city was fast becoming a world arts center. She had a studio in…
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Insolita storia di Prospero Ferretti pittore
Prospero Ferretti (1836-1893), pittore di Reggio Emilia, fu volontario garibaldino nella Terza guerra d'indipendenza (1866) e poi prigioniero in Croazia. Nel 1872 partì per Calcutta dove soggiornò quattro anni come ritrattista di notabili inglesi e indiani. Frequentò la corte del viceré e alcuni rajah della famiglia Tagore. L'astronomo italiano Pietro Tacchini, in India per osservare il tra…
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