Il patrimonio storico e artistico italiano ha un problema tanto ingombrante e ovvio che finiamo per non notarlo neppure: non parla a chi lo visita. Salvo fortunate eccezioni, i nostri musei non aiutano a far capire e a far godere le loro collezioni, i parchi archeologici le loro rovine, i monumenti il nostro passato. Per i sette italiani su dieci che non ci mettono mai piede, l'arte e il passat…
Explores how Afro-Cuban women's visual art challenges dominant narratives of race, gender, and identity. Gendered Aesthetics of Blackness delves deeply into the visual artistry and activism of Afro-Cuban women in Cuba and the United States. Influential in their communities yet overlooked in the mainstream art world and academic discourse, Harmonia Rosales, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Belkis …
“I was pulled into the story and read every word.” –Randolph Delehanty, author ofArt in the American South: Works from the Odgen Collection Throughout the nineteenth-century, itinerant painters traveled the length and breadth of Europe and American in search of patronage. In the company of the his crupulous wife, Emma S. Cameron (1825–1907), the Scots-born James Cameron…
"No one knows the world of Italian American Catholicism in contemporary New York better than Joseph Sciorra. In the five brilliant case studies that make up this book, Sciorra explores how Italian Americans construct, by hand, their religious environment—in their homes, in the streets, backyards, and sidewalks of the city—in a kind of sacred sweat equity. Like the artisans he w…
Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin: Through the Unusual Door examines the thirty-eight-year relationship between painter Beauford Delaney (born in Knoxville, 1901; died in Paris, 1979) and writer James Baldwin (born in New York, 1924; died in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, 1987) and the ways their ongoing intellectual exchange shaped each other’s creative output and worldview. This full-col…
The work of Agnes Martin has frequently been associated with East Asian philosophies. Particularly highlighting the oeuvre of this US artist, Mona Schieren presents comprehensive research on the influence of Asianist aesthetics in post-1945 American art. More than just historical analysis, her study opens an entirely new perspective on Martin's appropriation of Asianisms by focusing on transcul…
Trophäen gelten als Zeugnisse einer erfolgreichen Jagd und werden in unterschiedlichen Kontexten präsentiert: Sie finden Eingang in den privaten Wohnraum, aber auch in die (populäre) Ausstellungskultur. Die Beiträger*innen des Bands beleuchten diese kulturellen Einhegungen des Jagdlichen und historisieren Dekorationen und Ausstellungsdisplays. Dabei analysieren sie die Unterschiede zwischen…
Schule und Museum dienen nicht mehr nur der Wissenserweiterung, sondern ermöglichen auch resonante Erfahrungen. So gewinnen Museumsbesuche, die sich unmittelbar in den Schulunterricht integrieren lassen, zunehmend an Bedeutung. Dank einer kompetenz- und resonanzorientierten Unterrichtspraxis entstehen dabei zuverlässige und anschlussfähige Bindungen bei den Schüler*innen, die zudem die Qual…
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