Events

Il 25 agosto 1925 il filosofo Walter Benjamin e la drammaturga Asja Lācis pubblicano sulla Frankfurter Zeitung un saggio su Napoli destinato non soltanto a cambiare la percezione dell’immagine della città, ma a definire una nuova categoria di pensiero. [mehr]

Histories of modern architecture ignore the degree to which as a fashion it was marketed to women, often by other women. Considering the role of House Beautiful in its reception in the U.S. begins to redress interpretations that also marginalize men, such as Erich Mendelsohn, who designed commercially successful businesses frequented by women. [mehr]

L’immagine delle lavoratrici che lasciano la fabbrica Lumière è tra le prime in assoluto ad aver catturato l’attenzione di un pubblico pagante. Questo momento aurorale preannuncia la grande rilevanza del lavoro femminile nella storia del cinema, che rimane tuttavia complessivamente poco discussa nella sua specificità. [mehr]

In 1925, the Brazilian-born artist Vicente do Rego Monteiro published a remarkable illustrated book of poems about Paris, Quelques visages de Paris (A few faces/views of Paris). The project emerged from the author’s own experience of travelling to the French capital, but in it Rego Monteiro also engaged the topic of translation on a thematic level. [mehr]

Premodern sacred space was never in stasis. It was moving and active; in flux by definition, it poses many difficulties for historical narrative, conservation, and restoration practices. This two day international conference highlights some of the most recent methodological questions and approaches to modeling unstable materials and activities. [mehr]