Claudia Moscovici
09.05.2016
Art History Part II: Arthur Danto
Arthur Danto and “Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present” Arthur Danto has a unique background that prepares him equally well to be both philosopher (of art and aesthetics) and [...]
02.05.2016
Art History Part I: E. H. Gombrich and The Story of Art
Like many scholars of my generation, I have lived through the “culture wars” in the arts and humanities, marked by the rise and critique of poststructuralist and postmodern theories. My personal [...]
25.04.2016
Personal Memory and Political History
It is a real pleasure to present you, Ms. Claudia Moscovici, novelist and literary critic, to the readers, but I think there is no better presentation than the one described by the person [...]
18.04.2016
Introduction to ”Holocaust Memory”
Nearly eighty years have passed since the Holocaust. There have been thousands of memoirs, histories and novels written about it, yet many fear that this important may still fall into oblivion. [...]
11.04.2016
Art and Emotion (part II)
– from the Renaissance to Rodin – The painting and sculpture of the Renaissance masters continues to focus upon the expression of emotion on a grand scale and to grapple with the [...]
04.04.2016
Art and Emotion (part I)
– from the Classical Period to the Hellenistic Age – We tend to associate art and emotion. The Romantic notion of art as the product of an emotive, sensitive and inspired artist who [...]
28.03.2016
Romanian masterpieces at the Grimberg Gallery
Since the modern era the notion of “artistic style” has become synonymous with “originality”. Originality represents a step beyond individuality. It traces each artist’s unique fingerprint, [...]
21.03.2016
Janusz Korczak, “The King of the Children”
Joseph Stalin once told U.S. Ambassador Averill Harriman “the death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic.” Perhaps this is why readers react so much more sympathetically [...]
14.03.2016
IG Farben: Manufacturing Death
IG Farben didn’t start out as a Nazi death factory, which is what it’s known for to this day. In fact, up to the mid 1930’s its chief executives were not particularly anti-Semitic. Formed in [...]
07.03.2016
The Nuremberg Trial
How do you punish the perpetrators of the biggest genocide in human history? Do they deserve a fair trial, which their millions of victims never got? These are some of the questions the Allies [...]
