Naked. The Nude in America
- 476 pages
- 17 hours of reading
Surveys the history of the nude in American art, photography, and popular culture.
Bram Dijkstra Book order
Bram Dijkstra was a professor of English literature whose work delved into the disquieting imagery of female sexuality in culture. His influential books, such as "Idols of Perversity" and "Evil Sisters," analyzed the feminine personification of evil in turn-of-the-century art and literature. Dijkstra focused on how these images reflect and shape male anxieties and desires. His academic and popular work offers a fascinating look into the psychological and cultural underpinnings of female representation.
- 2010
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American Expressionism: Art and Social Change, 1920-1950
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
During the 1920s and '30s and until the end of World War II, a distinctly American form of Expressionism evolved. Most of the artists in this movement, children of immigrants from eastern and southern Europe, African-Americans and other outsiders to American mainstream culture, grew up in the urban ghettoes of the East Coast or Chicago. Their art was sympathetic to the disposessed and reflected a deep concern with the lives of working people. Providing a look at this art - and the beginnings of a new movement, Abstract Expressionism, which followed it - cultural historian Bram Dijkstra offers insights into the roots of painting in modern America.
