Alexander Nemerov: 3 books
Acting in the Night
Macbeth and the Places of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
What can the performance of a single play on one specific night tell us about the world this event inhabited so briefly? Alexander Nemerov takes a performance of Macbeth in Washington, DC on October 17, 1863—with Abraham Lincoln in attendance—to explore this question and illuminate American art,...
Wartime Kiss
Visions of the Moment in the 1940s
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2012
Wartime Kiss is a personal meditation on the haunting power of American photographs and films from World War II and the later 1940s. Starting with a stunning reinterpretation of one of the most famous photos of all time, Alfred Eisenstaedt's image of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on V-J...
by Paul Barolsky, Professor Thomas Crow, Gloria Kury
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Fictions of Art History, the most recent addition to the Clark Studies in the Visual Arts series, addresses art history’s complex relationships with fiction, poetry, and creative writing. Inspired by a 2010 conference, the volume examines art historians’ viewing practices and modes of writing....