Audrey Flack, Creator of Vibrant Photorealist Art, Dies at 93www.nytimes.com She painted and sculpted, but she was best known for her oversized still lifes, painted from photographs and crowded with color and detail.
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Cécile Fromontdandavidprize.org Cécile Fromont is an art historian specializing in the visual, material, and religious cultures of Africa, Latin America, and Europe in the early modern period (1500-1800). Her scholarship sheds light...
Thornton Wilder: Why Here? Why Now?scholarlypublishingcollective.org Abstract. This article explores the relevance and vitality of Wilder’s works to contemporary audiences of 2011. It establishes four criteria—breadth, depth, heat, and light—by which to judge serious l...
Penn State University Press names David Aycock executive director | Penn State Universitywww.psu.edu David Aycock, deputy director of Baylor University Press, has been named executive director of the Penn State University Press, effective Aug. 1.
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"Pennsylvania Government and Politics" with Thomas Baldino and Paula Duda Holoviakopen.spotify.com Listen to this episode from PA BOOKS on PCN on Spotify. This book provides a comprehensive examination of the Keystone State's formal and informal political institutions and players, past and present,...
The soul of Strauss | The New Criterionnewcriterion.com On Leo Strauss & the crisis of modern liberalism.
Millard Meiss Publication Fund: Apply Now + Congrats to Spring 2024 Grantees!www.collegeart.org CAA is now accepting applications for the Millard Meiss Publication Fund. Twice yearly, grants are awarded through this fund to support book-length scholarly manuscripts in art history, visual stud…
“Isfahan: Architecture and Urban Experience in Early Modern Iran” by Farshid Emamiow.ly We know a lot about Isfahan in the 17th century. Poets and court chroniclers praised its beauty and recorded its expansion under the great monarch, Shah Abbas (1588-1629). European travelers like J…
Traces of a Jewish Artist: The Lost Life and Work of Rahel Szalitwww.youtube.com 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 murdered in the Holocaust, she was all but lost to history, and most of her paintings have been destroyed or gone missing. Highly regarded by art historians and critics, she made a name for herself with soulful, sometimes humorous illustrations of Jewish and world literature by Sholem Aleichem, Mendele Moykher Sforim, Heinrich Heine, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Dickens, and others. She published her work in the mainstream German and Jewish press, and she ran in artists’ and queer circles in Weimar Berlin and in 1930s Paris. Szalit’s fascinating life demonstrates how women artists gained access to Jewish and avant-garde movements by experimenting with different media and genres. This talk focuses on the process of rediscovering Szalit and offers a close look at her art. Bio: Kerry Wallach is Associate Professor and Chair of German Studies and an affiliate of the Jewish Studies Program at Gettysburg College. She is the author of Traces of a Jewish Artist: The Lost Life and Work of Rahel Szalit (Penn State University Press, 2024) and Passing Illusions: Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany (2017), and co-editor (with Aya Elyada) of German-Jewish Studies: Next Generations. She is also a co-editor of "German Jewish Cultures," a book series published by Indiana University Press.
The Houses of Hellenistic–Roman Tel Dor: A Study of Domestic Social Practices and Economic Activitiesscholarlypublishingcollective.org ABSTRACT. This article engages the houses of the southern Phoenician coastal city of Tel Dor as a means to explore the social practices and smaller-scale economic activities of residents. It uses acce...
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The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s and Painting the Inhabited Landscape: Fitz H. Lane and the Global Reach of Antebellum Americacaareviews.org Ecocritical art history has expanded the range of questions we ask of visual art, moving beyond landscape studies to consider the ways in which artworks are entwined with ecology as well as with globa...