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Meaning, anti‐alienation, and fulfillment
Abstract One intuition that motivates subjectivist theories about meaning in life is the anti‐alienation intuition, that is, for a life to be meaningful it must engage with the person whose life it is. This article contends that the anti‐alienation and subjectivist theories it motivates are best understood as tracking fulfillment in life; this is an ...
Chad Mason Stevenson
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Abstract surrealism: the New York Schoolers’ ‘Personalized Surrealism’
Drawing from New York School artists’ witness accounts, correspondence, and archival records from lesser-consulted New York gallery archives (e.g. Hugo Gallery, Iolas Gallery, etc.), this paper challenges recent retellings that abdicate witness accounts ...
Ekin Erkan
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The Dimensions of Freedom in Anatol Danilișin’s Art [PDF]
This article is about the artistic activity and style of Anatol Danilișin, a painter from the Republic of Moldova who emerged in the 1990s. The text analyzes his contribution to modern and contemporary art, highlighting influences from the movements of ...
Natalia PROCOP
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A century of art dealing in New York. The rise of American art
Abstract We study art trade in New York between 1870 and 1970, analysing returns on investment by the renowned Knoedler gallery to shed light on the evolution of the American art market. A generalist art gallery should allocate investments to equalize expected returns, with differences in effective returns depending on purchase prices, number of traded
Federico Etro, Elena Stepanova
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This study explores the chemical and physical mechanisms behind the distinct cracking patterns observed in the black‐painted areas of five works by Antonio Saura. Multiband imaging and portable digital microscopy were employed to document the morphology and distribution of crack patterns.
Margherita Gnemmi +7 more
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ABSTRACT In this study, four paintings by the Brazilian artists Tarsila do Amaral and Anita Malfatti were analyzed using x‐ray fluorescence (XRF) and macro‐x‐ray fluorescence (MA‐XRF) scanning. The analyzed artworks by Tarsila do Amaral were “Autorretrato com vestido laranja” (1921) and “Figura Só” (1930), while the investigated paintings by Anita ...
Valter Felix +9 more
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Cy Twombly: Sign, Meta-Sign and Sense
In a 1979 article on the work of the American painter Cy Twombly, Roland Barthes writes “TW [Twombly] refers to writing (as he also often refers to culture, through words), and then he goes off somewhere else.” This article starts from the question of ...
Johanna Malt
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PROVINCIALISING BERLIN IN MENSCHEN IM HOTEL
ABSTRACT In this article, I take the peculiar source of Vicki Baum's Menschen im Hotel (1929) in a Southern Moravian town as a starting point to reveal the ways in which the hierarchies between metropolis and province are negotiated and complicated by the novel.
Meindert Peters
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‘QUOD NON EST IN BEROLINA, NON EST IN MUNDO’: VIEWS FROM THE PERIPHERY
ABSTRACT The historiography of Weimar cinema has focused almost exclusively on film production and exhibition in the German capital Berlin, generally neglecting other geographic regions, in particular the Rhineland which, after the First World War, remained under Allied control until the mid‐1920s for some parts, for others even longer.
Frank Kessler, Sabine Lenk
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Variaciones Greenberg: apogeo y debacle de un crítico de arte
Resumen: Partiendo del texto clásico Vanguardia y kitsch, nos proponemos analizar la obra del crítico norteamericano Clement Greenberg. Después de la intervención del Estado norteamericano en el arte entre 1935 y 1943 (los WTA), Clement Greenberg surge ...
Nicholas Rauschenberg
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