Art & Individuality
Manet: A Bar at the Folies-Bergère – Analysis – Part 2
Structure, iconography; visible/imaginary, real world/reverie
Manet: A Bar at the Folies-Bergère – Analysis – Part 1
Anatomy of the painting: detailed pictorial analysis
Degas’ Depiction of Women: From Description to Evocation
Degas’ changing pictorial strategies in his representation of women
Gauguin, Cézanne, the Primitive and Symbolism – Part 2
Liberating the painter’s mark from any naturalistic function (2)
Gauguin, Cézanne, the Primitive and Symbolism – Part 1
Liberating the painter’s mark from any naturalistic function (1)
Marguerite Duras: The Lover – Image and Absence
Writing and eroticism as liberation and self-creation
Jean Rhys: Voyage in the Dark – Introduction 2
Not just a great artistic progress but a great moral one
Jean Rhys: Voyage in the Dark – Introduction 1
Writing as a quest for learning the truth about oneself
Jean Rhys: Women, Melancholia and Nostalgia – Part 2
Women’s suffering, bearing witness, society, feminist insight
Jean Rhys: Women, Melancholia and Nostalgia – Part 1
Sadness, desire vs. identities, discourses to voice feelings