New Negro Writers, Artists, and Intellectuals, 1893-1930
The Black Chicago Renaissance emerged from a foundational stage that stretched from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition to the start of the Great Depression. During this time, African American innovators working across the landscape of the arts set the stage for an intellectual flowering that redefined black cultural life.Richard A. Courage and ......
New Negro Writers, Artists, and Intellectuals, 1893-1930
The Black Chicago Renaissance emerged from a foundational stage that stretched from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition to the start of the Great Depression. During this time, African American innovators working across the landscape of the arts set the stage for an intellectual flowering that redefined black cultural life.Richard A. Courage and ......
Mary Louise Coulouris was born in New York and raised in Hollywood. Her father was the Anglo-Greek actor, George Coulouris who was part of the Orson Welles Studio and starred in Citizen Kane. After completing her school education in London, she enrolled at the Slade School of Art, then under the directorship of the legendary Sir William ......
Seven Motif Sketches of Rudolf Steiner: Studies by Gerard Wagner
Based on Rudolf Steiner's indications, Gerard Wagner shows a wholly new approach to the human form in art. The Art of Colour and the Human Form presents the seven motif sketches concerned with the "spirit form of the human being," as well as numerous studies that Gerard Wagner painted over a period of thirty years. The intention of this volume is ......
The Performance of Self from Robert Lowell to Reality TV
The story of a new style of art-and a new way of life-in postwar America: confessionalism. What do midcentury "confessional" poets have in common with today's reality TV stars? They share an inexplicable urge to make their lives an open book, and also a sense that this book can never be finished. Christopher Grobe argues that, in postwar ......
The Performance of Self from Robert Lowell to Reality TV
The story of a new style of art-and a new way of life-in postwar America: confessionalism. What do midcentury "confessional" poets have in common with today's reality TV stars? They share an inexplicable urge to make their lives an open book, and also a sense that this book can never be finished. Christopher Grobe argues that, in postwar ......
A collection of essays on the quotidian in philosophy, cinema, theater, photography, and other visual arts in postwar France, published in conjunction with an exhibition of contemporary French artists at the Grey Art Gallery of New York University in spring 1997. Includes many color photos. No inde
This monograph traces the history of Kazakh filmmaking from its conception as a Soviet cultural construction project to its peak as fully-fledged national cinema to its eventual re-imagining as an art-house phenomenon.
This monograph traces the history of Kazakh filmmaking from its conception as a Soviet cultural construction project to its peak as fully-fledged national cinema to its eventual re-imagining as an art-house phenomenon.