The Kandinsky Conundrum
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The Kandinsky Conundrum
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Author : Alessandra Comini
language : en
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Release Date : 2018-06-01
The Kandinsky Conundrum written by Alessandra Comini and has been published by Sunstone Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-01 with Fiction categories.
A moving van filled with eleven Wassily Kandinsky paintings stolen from Munich’s famous Lenbach House Museum during a violent neo-Nazi demonstration is hijacked in Slovakia. Two rival Kandinsky collectors appear to be involved: Igor Rasputin of Odessa, visiting in Munich, and Boris Zima of Moscow, whose agent Raisa Sokolova is keeping tabs on Rasputin. Puzzlingly, the museum adamantly declares there has been no theft, even though its night watchman has been found murdered. Also visiting Munich is retired art history professor Megan Crespi, slated to give a lecture she titles, curiously enough, “Double Kandinsky.” In between visits to “mad” King Ludwig’s fantasy castles, Megan comes into contact with possible suspects, ranging from Rasputin to Iris and Laszlo Togarassy, owners of Munich’s new The Blue Rider gallery featuring Kandinsky’s works, to Katrina Keller, associate director of the Lenbach. Manipulating events connected with the theft are a young, careless gambler who owns a building behind the Lenbach, two men from the Ukrainian island of Amiinyi—one a computer wizard, the other a science photographer—and their Munich engineer friend Alyksandr Miesel, neo-Nazi leader Walter Krankenhauer, and Detective Dieter Löser. Crespi’s lecture, including results of state-of-the-art XRF technology, becomes the revelatory preamble to a thrilling denouement that cracks the Kandinsky conundrum.
The Kollwitz Calamities
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Author : Alessandra Comini
language : en
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Release Date : 2017-02-01
The Kollwitz Calamities written by Alessandra Comini and has been published by Sunstone Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-01 with Fiction categories.
Two monumental granite statues by famed German artist Käthe Kollwitz—the Grieving Parents—have been stolen from a World War I soldiers’ cemetery in Belgium. What could the motive have been for such an unlikely theft? On a visit to the director of the Kollwitz Museum in Cologne, retired art history professor and Kollwitz scholar Megan Crespi is asked to aid in tracking down the robber or robbers. As she pursues clues and visits possible suspects more Kollwitz statues are stolen in Cologne and Berlin. Crespi’s itinerary takes her to the Berlin Kollwitz Museum, Weimar, the Baltic Sea island of Rügen, Greifswald, and finally to the Kollwitz House in Moritzburg. On the way she interacts with physicians Abraham Rückgabe and Iliana Frankel, the just-married couple Monika von Putbus and Akram al-Aljamie, and unscrupulous CEO of Rügen’s asbestos-contaminated Dorotek factory, Reinhold Fromm, collector of dominatrix drawings. We meet possible suspects, Iranian prince Yusri Pahlavi, greedy Lukas Zamann of the Galerie Zamann, and the mysterious “Marie Schmidt,” of Moritzburg, Kollwitz’s final home. All seem to be connected to the spate of Kollwitz thefts. Can Crespi solve these thefts and will the precious artworks be found? An unexpected denouement involving seven persons and two cats gives us the answer.
Bauhaus Weaving Theory
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Author : T’ai Smith
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2014-11-01
Bauhaus Weaving Theory written by T’ai Smith and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-01 with Art categories.
The Bauhaus school in Germany has long been understood through the writings of its founding director, Walter Gropius, and well-known artists who taught there such as Wassily Kandinsky and László Moholy-Nagy. Far less recognized are texts by women in the school’s weaving workshop. In Bauhaus Weaving Theory, T’ai Smith uncovers new significance in the work the Bauhaus weavers did as writers. From colorful, expressionist tapestries to the invention of soundproofing and light-reflective fabric, the workshop’s innovative creations influenced a modernist theory of weaving. In the first careful examination of the writings of Bauhaus weavers, including Anni Albers, Gunta Stözl, and Otti Berger, Smith details how these women challenged assumptions about the feminine nature of their craft. As they harnessed the vocabulary of other disciplines like painting, architecture, and photography, Smith argues, the weavers resisted modernist thinking about distinct media. In parsing texts about tapestries and functional textiles, the vital role these women played in debates about medium in the twentieth century and a nuanced history of the Bauhaus comes to light. Bauhaus Weaving Theory deftly reframes the Bauhaus weaving workshop as central to theoretical inquiry at the school. Putting questions of how value and legitimacy are established in the art world into dialogue with the limits of modernism, Smith confronts the belief that the crafts are manual and technical but never intellectual arts.
Kunst Und Klang Mein Leben
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Author : Alessandra Comini
language : de
Publisher: Hollitzer Verlag
Release Date : 2023-11-06
Kunst Und Klang Mein Leben written by Alessandra Comini and has been published by Hollitzer Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Als eine der verdienstvollsten Kunsthistorikerinnen der jüngeren Geschichte hat sich die US-amerikanische Professorin Alessandra Comini unendliche Meriten erworben, insbesondere in der Erforschung des österreichischen Frühexpressionismus. Bis heute sind die Gespräche, die sie in Wien mit Zeitzeugen geführt hat, ein Fundament der Forschung, auf das immer wieder zurückgegriffen wird. Das alleine hätte Comini einen ganz besonderen Stellenwert in der Kunstgeschichteforschung gesichert, aber sie hat mehr als das getan, sie hat mit ihren interdisziplinären Recherchen über die Kunst des beginnenden 20. Jahrhunderts eine Leistung erbracht, die bis heute kaum übertroffen wird." Klaus Albrecht Schröder, Generaldirektor der Albertina, Wien "Alessandras Großzügigkeit und die Leidenschaft, mit der sie ihr unerschöpfliches Wissen vermittelt, ist in akademischen Kreisen selten und so gut wie unbekannt in der konkurrenzbetonten Welt der Schiele-Sammler und Experten. Dieser Geist entspringt einem faszinierenden Leben und einer nicht endenwollenden Neugier auf alles, was diese Welt zu bieten hat." Jane Kallir, New Yorker Galeristin, Kunsthändlerin, Autorin "Sandrina, mögest du jeden Tag deines Lebens mit überschäumender Heiterkeit genießen." Raiberto "Tino" Comini (+ 1986), Vater, Fotograf, Musiker
Arcade Of Memory
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Author : Howard Giskin
language : en
Publisher: FriesenPress
Release Date : 2019-08-26
Arcade Of Memory written by Howard Giskin and has been published by FriesenPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-26 with Fiction categories.
“The passing of years seems a ruse of the gods, for only yesterday I was playing in the sand.” Memory is a strange thing. A fragile patchwork of recollection. A dream that fades after waking. Arcade of Memory is a beautiful collection of essays, poems, and short stories that explores the notion of memory, drawing from the author’s experiences traveling throughout the world. Essays examine memory and the act of making meaning. Poems, written in the style of Japanese tanka, draw inspiration from global culture. Short stories use history as a springboard for contemplating the mysteries of life. This lyrical, thoughtful collection reminds us that our personal past is a mythical land, which can only be visited through recollection and imagination.
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language : en
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Release Date : 2003
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The Beethoven Boomerang
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Author : Alessandra Comini
language : en
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Release Date : 2020-08-25
The Beethoven Boomerang written by Alessandra Comini and has been published by Sunstone Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-25 with Fiction categories.
A black student is shot dead during a demonstration claiming “Beethoven Was Black” in Bonn’s historic Münsterplatz with its majestic monument to the Bonn-born composer. Attending a Beethoven jubilee conference in the city is retired professor turned art crimes detective Megan Crespi with her American colleague and Beethoven expert, Will Meridian. During their symposium on the composer one of the participants is also killed. Who is the assassin or assassins and why do the murders continue? The cast of characters and suspects Megan is confronted with include Bettina Brentano, ambitious conductor of the Bonn Classical Philharmonic, Oskar van der Fresser, founder of the Beethoven und Du Museum in Vienna, Dr. Seide Sammlerin, over-protective director of the Beethoven-Haus Bonn, Tobias Neidisch, Beethovenhalle night guard with a chip on his shoulder, Dr. Li Shutong, with a singular background relating to Beethoven in China, Leopold Weissknab, white supremacist student studying at Bonn University, Louis van Hoven, a self-declared direct descendant of Ludwig van Beethoven, Clemens Karl von Masuren, beloved conductor of the Beethoven Orchester Bonn, and Takuto Nisemono, conductor and composer once considered “the Beethoven of Japan,” now disgraced but defiant and scheming a come-back. Megan’s pursuit of Beethoven-related criminal activity extends to a cruise ship bound for China and additional deaths. Can justice prevail?
The Schiele Slaughters
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Author : Alessandra Comini
language : en
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Release Date : 2015-02-02
The Schiele Slaughters written by Alessandra Comini and has been published by Sunstone Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-02 with Fiction categories.
Retired art history professor Megan Crespi, an expert on the Expressionist artist Egon Schiele, is called to Vienna to help solve the brutal murder of a museum night watchman whose naked cadaver was propped up in the same pose as the nude self-portrait by Schiele above him. A series of attacks relating to Schiele occur, ranging from “censoring” of his nude figures’ private parts with spray paint to desecration of his burial site. Amid restitution lawsuits and murderous competing gallery owners, Megan’s investigations are endangered by the fanatical Grand Master of a secret sect dedicated to the obliteration of obscenity. Her own life in danger, the twisting Schiele trail leaves multiple corpses in its wake and leads Megan from conniving Vienna to remote Kaliningrad in Russia, to ancient Krumau in Bohemia, and bustling Milan in Italy as she hunts for a possible hidden trove of major Schiele paintings. What she discovers is undreamt of and leaves the Schiele world stunned and covetous. (Includes Readers Guide)
Schiele In Prison
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Author : Alessandra Comini
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-11-17
Schiele In Prison written by Alessandra Comini and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-17 with Art categories.
The account of Austrian artist (1890-1918) Egon Schiele's arrest and 24-day imprisonment including his diary and stark drawings created during his time in a provincial jail in April of 1912.
The Kollwitz Calamities
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Author : Alessandra Comini
language : en
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Release Date : 2017-11-15
The Kollwitz Calamities written by Alessandra Comini and has been published by Sunstone Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-15 with Fiction categories.
Two monumental granite statues by famed German artist Käthe Kollwitz—the Grieving Parents—have been stolen from a World War I soldiers’ cemetery in Belgium. What could the motive have been for such an unlikely theft? On a visit to the director of the Kollwitz Museum in Cologne, retired art history professor and Kollwitz scholar Megan Crespi is asked to aid in tracking down the robber or robbers. As she pursues clues and visits possible suspects more Kollwitz statues are stolen in Cologne and Berlin. Crespi’s itinerary takes her to the Berlin Kollwitz Museum, Weimar, the Baltic Sea island of Rügen, Greifswald, and finally to the Kollwitz House in Moritzburg. On the way she interacts with physicians Abraham Rückgabe and Iliana Frankel, the just-married couple Monika von Putbus and Akram al-Aljamie, and unscrupulous CEO of Rügen’s asbestos-contaminated Dorotek factory, Reinhold Fromm, collector of dominatrix drawings. We meet possible suspects, Iranian prince Yusri Pahlavi, greedy Lukas Zamann of the Galerie Zamann, and the mysterious “Marie Schmidt,” of Moritzburg, Kollwitz’s final home. All seem to be connected to the spate of Kollwitz thefts. Can Crespi solve these thefts and will the precious artworks be found? An unexpected denouement involving seven persons and two cats gives us the answer.