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Schwitters’s Shadow Signatures: Merzbau at Sprengel Museum, Hannover, 1
Hannover's Sprengel Museum is such a fascinating space this most recent visit deserves a series of discrete posts of mostly photos. It was here in 2009 to see the visiting Hund vor der Welt on loan to the Sprengel for "Die Schönheit einer zerbrechenden Welt (1910 –...
A Trip to the North: Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Oldenburg
First I would encourage you to just skip this text and go right to the photos! Otherwise: I went to Animalia: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Explorations at the beginning of September mostly to see what the undergraduates and MA candidates were working on. The...
Mysterious Skin: Franz Marc’s Hidden Painting
In clear contrast to the well-planned execution of the grazing horses on its front, the verso of Weidende Pferde IV is wild, mysterious, and haunting, and provides an intimate look at Franz Marc’s more intuitive approach to color and form. Though the composition is...
New Zealand’s Lost Horizons
Thinking about leaving New Zealand I will miss the seals, sea lions, birds, ocean, and the friends-til-the-end I have made. (The photos here are all taken by my dear friend Balazs Kiglics and you can contact him about his photography work which is all amazing and...
Hienieden Franz Marc ~ Trauerarbeit 100
Indexical photo with authorial shadow; graves of Franz and Maria Marc On 4 March 2016, the 100th anniversary of the death of the painter, animal lover, writer, and ever-elusive person Franz Marc, I visited Marc’s grave in Kochel. Initially I had intended to spend the...
Franz Marc, 8 February 1880 – 4 March 1916
Franz Marc's "Aphorism 82," from Die 100 Aphorismen, 1915. "Ich sah das Bild, das in den Augen des Teichhuhns sich bricht, wenn es untertaucht: die tausend Ringe, die jedes kleine Leben einfassen, das Blau der flüsternden Himmel, das der See trinkt, das verzückte...
Animal Biographies: Recovering Animal Selfhood through Interdisciplinary Narration?
During February and March I am a Wissenschaftliche Gäste of sorts at the Universität Kassel's Tier-Mensch Gesellschaft. I'm doing some research in the dOCUMENTA Archiv, finishing up a chapter in my dissertation, and giving a talk at this first-of-its-kind conference,...
The King of the Cats
The College Art Association conference was held 3-6 February in Washington, D.C., which for what I study is not a very interesting art city in the way New York City is…and D.C. is thus also very expensive to visit, since the trip doesn’t include a few precious hours...
Franz Marc’s Winterschläfer
In the spirit of rebirth an excerpt from my research about Franz Marc’s visualization of a kind of pantheistic utopia, followed by an introduction and explanation about this new website and some other breaking German Modernism news. § § § Though it...
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