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So yesterday it was all about Romanticism and savage nature - therefore I found it fitting to turn to post-modernism and a very clear urban setting.


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This all started after a comment by schionatulander about how European Art is usually seen just as Italian, French, German and British art - with a few artists from other European countries thrown in for good measure. It's sad that this is the norm, as it all helps create a very narrow (and IMO very boring)Art Historical canon ( Read more... )

Well, it’s now official. I will be taking media studies this autumn, and in the spring I’ll hand in my master thesis in media studies. The fact that I already have a master in Art History points to the fact that I’m possibly a bit insane. (I’ve been through this shitstorm once - and now I’m doing it again? But I get to write about war films and ( Read more... )

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Dear f-list (especially the North-American contingent).

I need some help here.
I'm working on an article about propaganda and art in the 1940's and one of the American pieces is by Norman Rockwell. Am I correct in remembering that there is a saying "it looked like a Norman Rockwell painting" to describe something nostalgic and sentimental - and ( Read more... )

Maybe you noticed that a few of my post titles are called "Picturing History"? You might have chalked this up to bad title-imagination, and you wouldn’t be far wrong - but there is also an underlying method to the madness.

This then is a meta-like post trying to sort out all the different arguments and views I’ve played with in the Picturing ( Read more... )

Sometimes we forget how a thing looks. The precise details of an event or the faces of people we knew. Memory can be a fickle thing. But we are in luck, because we have things that can remind us, we have words, films and photographs that can show us how things were. Right?

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Apparently this is my day for double posting - but his article struck me as very interesting:

Return of the Roman

It deals with the popularity of historical novels, and particularly about novels set in the ancient world. He also list some points on how historical fiction can lead to an increased interest in history, even if the novel isn’t “ ( Read more... )

So in a week I’ll be off to Rome, and mostly it will be work, but parts will be leisure. One thing I always do is go to St. Maria del Popolo. Partially to see the Caravaggio paintings in the Cerasi chapel and partially to see if the bag ladies with horrific smell are still there ( Read more... )