Angela Vettese
Critica d'arte italiana.
Dirige dal 2001 il corso magistrale di arti visive presso l'università IUAV di Venezia, facoltà design e arti, presso cui è professore associato di Teoria e Critica dell'Arte Contemporanea. È direttore della Fondazione Pomodoro dal 2009. Nel 2009 è stata presidente della Giuria Internazionale della Biennale di Arti visive di Venezia. Dal 1986 collabora abitualmente al supplemento domenicale del Sole 24 ore. Dal 2002 è presidente della Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa di Venezia. Dal 2005 al 2009 ha diretto la Galleria Civica di Modena. Dal 1995 al 2003 è stata curatrice del Corso Superiore della Fondazione Antonio Ratti. Dal 1993 al 1996 è stata co-curatrice del Premio Furla-Querini Stampalia. E' co-fondatrice del Festi
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Born in a working-class district of Paris, Perec was the only son of Icek Judko and Cyrla (Schulewicz) Peretz, Polish Jews who had emigrated to France in the 1920s. He was a distant relative of the Yiddish writer Isaac Leib Peretz.
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Her critical attention has been drawn to investigating the ways in which gender affects the creation and apprehension of art, as evidenced by her 1994 essay "Issues of Gender in Cassatt and Eakins". Besides feminist art history, she was best known for her work on Realism, specifically on Gustave Courbet. Complementing her career as an academic, she served on the Art Advisory Council of the International Foundation for Art Research. In 2006, Nochlin received a Visionary Woman Award] from -
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Kristof's first steps as a writer were in the realm of poetry and theater (John et Joe, Un rat qui passe), which is a facet of her works that did not have as great an impact as her trilogy. In 1986 Kristof’s first novel, The Notebook appeared. It was the beginning of a moving trilogy. The sequel titled The Proof came 2 years later. The third part was published in 1991 under the title The Third Lie. The most important themes of this trilogy are war and destructio -
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Deborah wrote and published her first novel BEAUTIFUL MUTANTS (Vintage), when she was 27 years old. The experience of not having to give her words to a director, actors and designer to interpret, was so exhilarating, she wrote a few more. These include, SWALLOWING GEOGRAPHY, THE UNLOVED (Vintage) and BILLY and GIRL (Bloomsbury). -
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Nel 2008 vince il Premio Super Mondello, il Premio Recanati e il Premio Brancati con il romanzo Se consideri le colpe .
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Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
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Ha lavorato come consulente editoriale per il Salone del libro di Torino e ha cofondato il Festival Italian of Literature in London.
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Carla Lonzi (Florence, March 6, 1931 – Milan, August 2, 1982) was an Italian art critic and feminist activist, who is best known as the cofounder of Rivolta Femminile (Feminine Revolt), an Italian feminist collective formed in 1970.
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In the early 1970s, Lonzi adopted a feminist stance in relation to art. She had grown to view art as being yet another part of a system of institutions and labour which enable unequal power relations and the overall oppression of women. Lonzi became disillusioned and went as far as dismissing art criticism as a "phoney profession". She subsequently abandoned her career as an art critic and fully embraced the feminist cause.
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