In 1905 Georgia travelled to Chicago to study painting at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1907 she enrolled at the Art Students’ League in New York City, where she studied with William Merritt Chase. During her time in New York she became familiar with the 291 Gallery owned by her future husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz. In 1912, she and her sisters studied at university with Alon Bement, who employed a somewhat revolutionary method in art instruction originally conceived by Arthur Wesley Dow. In Bement’s class, the students did not mechanically copy nature, but instead were taught the principles of …

« L'iconographie chrétienne, et surtout la représentation du Christ, se base dans la doctrine de l'Incarnation. Tout comme le théologien s'exprime par la pensée, l'iconographe, à travers son art, exprime la vérité vivante, la révélation appartenant à l'Église dans la forme des traditions. Bien plus qu'aucune autre image sacrée, l'icône du Christ « non élaborée par la main de l'homme » exprime le principe dogmatique de l'iconographie. » (Père Daniel Rousseau). Cet ouvrage analyse l'évolution des thématiques abordées par les peintres au début de la période byzantine, à travers la Principauté de Kiev jusqu'à sa conclusion sous l'Empire russe. Indépendamment …

Este libro aborda, desde una perspectiva generacional, los procesos de construcción de las izquierdas en Chile y México entre los años 1984 y 2006. Para ello, estudia a los diversos actores político-juveniles que disputaron durante este periodo la conducción de los movimientos sociales universitarios, tanto en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México como en la Universidad de Chile. A través de una lectura que combina análisis sociológico y enfoque histórico con acento en las dimensiones subjetivas de la política, el autor analiza las identidades militantes en sus contextos y las relaciona con los últimos procesos latinoamericanos de cambios y redefiniciones …

Amsterdam is not only famous for its canals, nor for its impressive collections of paintings by Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Van Gogh, but also for its museum dedicated to Venus, which welcomes more than 500,000 visitors per year. Travelers come from the world over, rushing to enter this unusual building next to the train station, called “The Temple of Venus”. Gathered since 1985 by Monique Van Marle and her father, this collection of erotic art work is exceptional in the quality of the objects, prints, and very old photographs. Disregarding voyeurism, this museum aims to be a privileged place exhibiting eroticism’s …