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Solar Dance
In Modris Eksteins’s hands, the interlocking stories of Vincent van Gogh and art dealer Otto Wacker reveal the origins of the fundamental uncertainty that is the hallmark of the modern era. Through the lens of Wacker’s sensational 1932 trial in Berlin for selling fake Van Goghs, Eksteins offers a unique narrative of Weimar Germany, the rise of Hitler, and the replacement of nineteenth-century certitude with twentieth-century doubt. Berlin after the Great War was a magnet for art and transgression. Among those it attracted was Otto Wacker, a young gay dancer turned art impresario. His sale of thirty-three forged Van Goghs and the ensuing scandal gave Van Gogh’s work unprecedented commer...
Paalen Life and Work
Wolfgang Paalen, the almost forgotten Viennese painter and surrealist, only quite recently won back his original place as one of the most influential artists of the mid 20th century. This biography, originally published in German 2015 with great success, inspired the extensive retrospective in the Belvedere, Vienna, 2019 and though set the ball rolling, because it meticulously and comprehensibly explicates for the reader how it came about that this rather cautious and reticent artist became a key figure in the revolutionary movements of Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. It was a life full of tensions and unexpected turnarounds that finally led the son of an Austrian-Jewish merchant from...
Nice People
Nice People- a new collection of flash fiction and other writing set in and around Nice, France
Partisan Canons
Whether it is being studied or critiqued, the art canon is usually understood as an authoritative list of important works and artists. This collection breaks with the idea of a singular, transcendent canon. Through provocative case studies, it demonstrates that the content of any canon is both historically and culturally specific and dependent on who is responsible for the canon’s production and maintenance. The contributors explore how, where, why, and by whom canons are formed; how they function under particular circumstances; how they are maintained; and why they may undergo change. Focusing on various moments from the seventeenth century to the present, the contributors cover a broad g...
Adapting Gender
Demonstrates how film adaptations intersect with feminist discourse in neoliberal Mexico. Adapting Gender offers a cogent introduction to Mexicos film industry, the history of womens filmmaking in Mexico, a new approach to adaptation as a potential feminist strategy, and a cultural history of generational changes in Mexico.Ilana Dann Luna examines how adapted films have the potential to subvert not only the intentions of the source text, but how they can also interrupt the hegemony of gender stereotypes in a broader socio-political context. Luna follows the industrial shifts that began with Salinas de Gortaris presidency, which made the long 1990s the precise moment in which subversive...
Hermann Broch, Visionary in Exile
Studies of one of the foremost 20c Austrian writers, as a critic and as a novelist and dramatist. The Austrian novelist Hermann Broch ranks with Kafka and Musil among the three greatest 20th-century Austrian novelists and belongs to the century's most gifted novelists in German from whatever country. He established his reputation with The Sleepwalkers, a trilogy of political and philosophical novels. His best-known work is The Death of Virgil, a long, challenging work in a lyrical, exuberant, and sometimes nearly incomprehensible style, akind of cerebral stream-of-consciousness of the dying Virgil. Broch also wrote extensively about modern art and architecture, Hofmannsthal, and mass psychol...
A Companion to the Works of Hermann Broch
Hermann Broch (1886-1951) is best known for his two major modernist works, The Sleepwalkers (3 vols., 1930-1932) and The Death of Virgil (1945), which frame a lifetime of ethical, cultural, political, and social thought. A textile manufacturer by trade, Broch entered the literary scene late in life with an experimental view of the novel that strove towards totality and vividly depicted Europe's cultural disintegration. As fascism took over and Broch, a Viennese Jew, was forced into exile, his view of literature as transformative was challenged, but his commitment to presenting an ethical view of the crises of his time was unwavering. An important mentor and interlocutor for contemporaries su...
National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Hermann Broch und die Moderne
Hermann Broch ist einer der prominentesten Vertreter des modernen europäischen Romans. In dem 1933 erschienenen Essay "Das Böse im Wertsystem der Kunst" entwickelte er eine Theorie der modernen Literatur, die besagt, dass ihre Ethik sich in ihrer Erkenntnisleistung zeige, d.h. in der Fähigkeit, neue Realitäten aufzudecken. Dies wiederum sei nur durch neue Formgebungen zu erreichen. Im Exil fordert der Ethiker Broch, dass der Schriftsteller sich als Intellektueller an den Diskussionen über die innergesellschaftlichen wie außenpolitischen, die sozialen wie die menschenrechtlichen Fragen der Zeit beteiligen müsse. In diesem Band werden Brochs Romantrilogie "Die Schlafwandler" und seine Komödie "Aus der Luft gegriffen" als politisch-wirtschaftskritische Werke interpretiert. In seinen Essays zeigt er sich als Analytiker der Moderne überhaupt, ihrer Religionskrise, ihrer Malerei (Cézanne, Van Gogh, Picasso), der Psychologie der Freud-Schule, der Demokratie und der Menschenrechte. In seinen Briefen kommt die praktische Seite seiner Ethik zum Tragen: sein Informationshunger sowie seine legendäre Hilfsbereitschaft.
