Taking his cue from Baz Luhrman’s The Great Gatsby, Kristian Moen discusses how depictions of modern liveliness in 1920s cinema embedded a frenzied, unstable and complex experience of modernity. Continue reading
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Painting of the Week: 63
Lydia Dona, Photo Ghosts and the Labyrinth Drips on the Void, 1996, oil, acrylic, and sign paint on canvas, 213.4 x 162.6 cm. Continue reading
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Nathan Altman (1889-1970), Portrait of Anna Akhmatova, 1914, oil on canvas, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg. Continue reading
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Pierre Bonnard, Women with Dog, 1891, Oil on canvas, 40.6 x 32.4 cm, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Continue reading
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