Click Here to Read: ‘Breakfast With Lucian’ presents an eye-popping portrait of Freud, the painter The artist Lucian Freud — Sigmund’s grandson — was father to countless children and canvases during his messy, selfish and fascinating life, Review of ‘Breakfast With Lucian by Geordie Greig, Reviewed By Heller McAlpin on October 17, 2013
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ff the Couch: Psychonalysis and Culture V3N1
Click Here to Read: Off the Couch: Psychonalysis and Culture: V3N1
After a long hiatus, I am reviving the ezine Off The Couch. This year, I intend to focus on a psychoanalytic view of opera, with reviews and reflections on the Continue reading ff the Couch: Psychonalysis and Culture V3N1
Jewish scholar challenged tradition with creation of unique library
Click Here to Read: Jewish scholar challenged tradition with creation of unique library by Michael Marek on the DW website.
Warburg examined the influence of the Antiquity on later works
‘Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900’
Click Here To Read: ‘Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900’ By Jackie Wullschlager on The Financial Times website on October 11, 2013 .
Lucian Freud’s ghosts laid to rest with Vienna show
Click Here To Read: Lucian Freud’s ghosts laid to rest with Vienna show on the Malaysian Insider website on October 8, 2013.
David Dawson, who worked with British painter Lucian Freud at Freud’s studio and home for over 20 years, talks as he stands in front of his photographs of the artist during an interview with Reuters at the Sigmund Freud museum in Vienna yesterday. – Reuters pic, October 8, 2013.
Review of Breakfast with Lucian
Click Here to Read: Review of Breakfast with Lucian, by Geordie Greig, reviewed by Cressida Connolly on the Spectator website on October 12, 2013.
Lucian Freud in his bedroom in Notting Hill, May 2011
Lucian Freud and his complicated relationship with Vienna
Click Here to Read: Lucian Freud and his complicated relationship with Vienna By Richard Calvocoressi on the IT.com website on October 4, 2013.
David Dawson’s 2005 portrait ‘Falling Over’ of Lucian Freud and a model in his London studio
Women’s Art in Contemporary China
Click Here to Read: Symposium: Women’s Art in Contemporary China By Raleigh McElvery on the Bowdoin website.
Diego Rivera’s “Battle of Detroit”
Click Here to Read: The working class and the Detroit Industry murals at the DIA: Diego Rivera’s “Battle of Detroit” By Tom Mackaman and Jerry White on The World Socialist Web Site on October 3, 2013.
Demonstrators on Miller Road outside of the Rouge Plant flee as teargas and bullets are released on them by Dearborn Police and Ford Servicemen during the 1932 Ford Hunger March [Source: Reuther Library]
The politics of cultural destruction: The Rape of Europa
Click Here to Read: The politics of cultural destruction: The Rape of Europa By Nancy Hanover on the World Socialist Web Site on September 27, 2013.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Self-Portrait as a Soldier (1915). His work was labelled “degenerate” in 1933. In 1937 the Nazis sold or destroyed 600 of his paintings. His first solo show in the US took place at the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1937. He committed suicide in 1938.