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Franz Marc and “Das abstrakte Theater”
So I am pleased and grateful to report the publication of my first peer-reviewed anthology chapter in the journal Expressionismus in the special issue Der performative Expressionismus. The article is called “‘Der Sturm’ und die Wilden.? Franz Marcs...
Franz Marc as an Ethologist
My 2012 M.A. thesis, Franz Marc as an Ethologist, is now part of the online collection of the open-access Social Science Research Network (SSRN). You can download it or look at the abstract here. UPDATE: I just can't with Elsevier's involvement with SSRN. In...
Franz Marc’s Skizzenbuch aus dem Felde and a Poem
I recently looked harder at Franz Marc's experiments with poetry. I think you could say that much of Marc's writing borrows structurally from poetry, and Marc read a lot of poetry, including all of the classics you'd expect, work by people he actually knew, such as...
Hund vor der Welt: How a Dog Sees the World
I write about this painting a lot – in fact I once, for quite a long time, devoted my academic research solely to this painting – but I realised I don't often say anything about it in this space. So here is a little excerpt not from my current chapters but from a side...
(My) “Recent Publications” on Franz Marc
"Recent publications" is in quotes because all of the great opportunities to preach the gospel of Marc lately have come to me strictly through the generosity of other people, so I will quickly get to the point of thanking Trang Vu Thuy and the curatorial staff at the...
Every Word with Love
Today is the 99th anniversary of the death of Franz Marc. (Marc would have really liked someone who also died this week, Leonard Nimoy and Nimoy’s Mr. Spock character from Star Trek.) I didn’t write my normal “Franz Marc’s Birthday” post (Marc's birthday is 8...
Essay in KAPSULA: Franz Marc, Joan Jonas, The Presets
I was very pleased and honored to have my article "Channeling Franz Marc in the Prelapsarian Longing of Joan Jonas and Lee Lennox" accepted and published by the Toronto-based journal of contemporary art, KAPSULA. The subscription to KAPSULA, which is organized as an...
Teenage Catalyst: Helmuth Macke and Franz Marc
“The ‘boarding school’ is in session,” Franz Marc wrote nervously to his friend August Macke.[1] Pining for company in the same letter, Marc nonetheless wondered if August should come and get Helmuth Macke, August’s young cousin, whom the Macke family had deposited...
Mystery Painting by August Macke?
I have been working on a project about authenticating a painting maybe misattributed to one of my Expressionist painters (yet maybe made by another), so I was very interested to see a story crop up over the weekend in the Münchner Merkur online edition (pretty sure...
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Email me with questions about Franz Marc, art history, real and representational animals, or provenance and authentication research: jeanmarie punkt carey at symbol protonmail punkt ch.
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