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Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of Memory
Griselda Pollock
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Description for Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of Memory
Hardcover. Num Pages: 464 pages, 360 images. BIC Classification: ACX; AGB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
A long-awaited, new interpretation of Charlotte Salomon's singular and complex modern artwork, Life? or Theatre? Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943) is renowned for a single, monumental, modernist artwork, Life? or Theatre? (Leben? oder Theater?), comprising 784 paintings and created between 1941 and 1942. This major art-historical study sheds new light on the remarkable combination of image, text, and music, revealing Salomon's wealth of references to cinema, opera, Berlin cabaret, and the painter's self-consciously deployed modernist engagements with artists such as Van Gogh, Munch, and Kollwitz. Additionally, Griselda Pollock draws attention to affinities in Salomon's work with ... Read more
A long-awaited, new interpretation of Charlotte Salomon's singular and complex modern artwork, Life? or Theatre? Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943) is renowned for a single, monumental, modernist artwork, Life? or Theatre? (Leben? oder Theater?), comprising 784 paintings and created between 1941 and 1942. This major art-historical study sheds new light on the remarkable combination of image, text, and music, revealing Salomon's wealth of references to cinema, opera, Berlin cabaret, and the painter's self-consciously deployed modernist engagements with artists such as Van Gogh, Munch, and Kollwitz. Additionally, Griselda Pollock draws attention to affinities in Salomon's work with ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300100723
SKU
V9780300100723
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About Griselda Pollock
Griselda Pollock is professor of the social and critical histories of art in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds.
Reviews for Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of Memory
newly available postscript material [...] reveals the paintings to contain their own murder mystery - Lauren Elkin, RA magazine a dazzling aggregation of ideas and approaches - Jeremy Harding, London Review of Books Pollock [. . .] provides a book that not only contributes to scholarship on it but also makes a highly significant contribution ... Read more