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About Jean Marie Carey

Jean Marie Carey is an art historian and writer who is interested in animals, feminism, pop culture, and walking around. Her website is germanmodernism.org and she tweets at @PollyLeritae.

Luxury and Modernism: Architecture and the Object in Germany 1900-1933

Jean Marie Carey

Luxury and Modernism: Architecture and the Object in Germany 1900-1933 by Robin Schuldenfrei

Luxury and Modernism: Architecture and the Object in Germany 1900-1933 by Robin Schuldenfrei / Princeton University Press / 2018 / 978-0691175126 / 338 pages with 74 color and 126 black and white … [Read more...]

Book Review: Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character

Jean Marie Carey

Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character by Kay Redfield Jamison

Kay Redfield Jamison. Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character. (New York: Knopf, 2017) 560 pages with extensive clinical footnotes, primary source documents, … [Read more...]

Mernet Larsen: Getting Measured, 1957-2017

Jean Marie Carey

(detail) Getting Measured, 1999. Acrylic, tracing paper and string on canvas. Collection of The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, the State Art Museum of Florida, Florida State University. ©Mernet Larsen

Mernet Larsen: Getting Measured, 1957-2017. The Tampa Museum of Art, 120 W Gasparilla Plaza, Tampa. On view through 18 February 2018. Curated by Joanna Robotham, Curator of Modern and Contemporary … [Read more...]

The Tempest and the Savages: Franz Marc, Hugo Ball, and a Decisive Moment in Dada-Expressionist Theater With a Special Appearance by August Macke

Jean Marie Carey

Figs.03: Franz Marc, Caliban, 1914. (Figure for Shakespeare’s „Der Sturm“. Tempera, 46 x 39.5 cm.) Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett der öffentlichen Kunstsammlung, Switzerland.

Introduction This article discusses Franz Marc’s 1914 essay “Das abstrakte Theater”1 (Fig. 01), and the events surrounding an “Expressionist” production of Shakespeare’s Der Sturm planned by Marc … [Read more...]

Between Something and Nothing: Franz Marc’s Authorial Ether

Jean Marie Carey

franz marc writings - jean marie carey

A painter and writer who was born and lived most of his life in Bavaria, Franz Marc was one of the key protagonists in the great European debate on the nature and the goals of art at the beginning of … [Read more...]

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Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

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