Introduction: Liberating captivity: sacred translations of secular narratives -- A pious translation: the multiplicity of call it sleep and Henry Roth's single sin -- Converting books into bodies: unorthodox women and the vanity of art -- An inward eye: Modigliani and the burden…
Amedeo Modigliani was considered to be the quintessential bohemian artist, his legend almost as infamous as Van Gogh's. In his time, his work was seen as an oddity, a link between such portraitists as Whistler and Sargent and the modernist approaches of Gauguin and Picasso. In t…
Amedeo Modigliani was considered to be the quintessential bohemian artist, his legend almost as infamous as Van Gogh's. In his time, his work was seen as an oddity, a link between such portraitists as Whistler and Sargent and the modernist approaches of Gauguin and Picasso. In t…
Modigliani (1884-1920), peintre sans bonheur dans son Italie natale, ne connut que le chagrin dans sa terre d'adoption, la France. De ce mal-être, l'artiste constitue une œuvre originale, influencée par l'Art nègre, les Cubistes et les nuits alcoolisées de Montparnasse. Sa visio…
Modigliani (1884-1920), peintre sans bonheur dans son Italie natale, ne connut que le chagrin dans sa terre d'adoption, la France. De ce mal-être, l'artiste constitue une œuvre originale, influencée par l'Art nègre, les Cubistes et les nuits alcoolisées de Montparnasse. Sa visio…
