Art & Individuality
Manet’s Contemplation at the Gare Saint-Lazare – Part 2
An in-depth analysis of Manet’s painting (2)
Manet’s Contemplation at the Gare Saint-Lazare – Part 1
An in-depth analysis of Manet’s painting (1)
Schoenberg Lieder: The Composer and German Poetry
Schoenberg & Ludwig Pfau, Richard Dehmel, and Stefan George
Kindertotenlieder: Gustav Mahler and ‘Calling Back a Voice’
How Mahler calls a presence out of absence
Kindertotenlieder: Mahler, Bereavement, and Consolation
Music’s floating intentionality, consolation’s historical context
Lulu’s Feminine Performance: Alban Berg’s Opera
How the interaction of music & libretto creates ironic distance
Wedekind’s Lulu Plays: Woman as Spectacle and Commodity
A feminist affirmation of Earth-Spirit and Pandora’s Box