In passionate pursuit
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Alessandra Comini
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: George Braziller
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780807615232
Subjects: Historien d'art; Women art historians; Art historians; Biography; Kunsthistorici
Description: "Overflowing with passion for her work as a scholar and teacher, Alessandra Comini reminisces and romps through six decades as an unconventional art historian in this illustrated memoir. The author of award-winning books on Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, and Ludwig van Beethoven, Comini draws on her lifelong daily journals and shares personal research-related anecdotes as she reflects on the formation and flowering of her distinguished career. Beginning with her colorful background as a refugee from Franco's Spain, then Mussolini's Italy, she describes her music-loving family's sometimes humorous, sometimes painful adjustment to a World War II Texas. A series of fortuitous experiences at Interlochen's National Music Camp; Barnard College; the University of California, Berkeley; and Columbia University later leads to what would ultimately be a turning point both in her life as well as in Schiele scholarship: the discovery, half a century after Schiele's incarceration in a provincial Austrian jail, of the actual cell in which he had been imprisoned."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: An abundance of epiphanies --; title: To Vienna! On the track of artists past and present --; title: Discovery of Egon Schiele's prison cell --; title: Friendship with Schiele's sisters, Melanie and Gerti --; title: Swapping life stories: tales told to Melanie --; title: A touch of old world in Dallas-exposure to the arts --; title: Some enduring Italian vignettes --; title: Education Texas style and trails less traveled --; title: Interlude at interlochen: revelations and resolutions --; title: Barnard College: a little mayhem and a lot of music --; title: On my own in Italy with a cello and a motorbike --; title: Barnard again: falling in love with German and with something called art history --; title: Art up close: Italy, Istanbul, Athens, Germany --; title: Farewell Barnard, Grüss Gott Vienna, and hail the Hungarian revolution --; title: Round-trip in search of a profession: San Francisco, Mexico, New York, Scandinavia, Milan, Paris, Prague, London, San Francisco --; title: Art history morning, noon, and night: Schiele sitters, collectors, and enthusiasts --; title: Running the (teaching and dissertation) Gauntlet at Columbia --; title: New York Art World encounters and stints at Berkeley, Princeton, and Yale --; title: A bit of Northern feminism at Southern Methodist University: Eleanor Tufts and art history forays at home and abroad --; title: Carrying on with the "revisionist" (Feminist) cause --; title: Musical iconography: merging two lifelong loves --; title: Some locales of passionate pursuit: of islands, mountains, lakes, and cemeteries --; title: Buon Giorno, Trieste: Winckelmann and Schiele --; title: Under a midnight sun: exploring the Scandinavian sensibility --; title: Italy once again: rendezvous with the past --; title: "Io ho quell' che ho donate": sharing the fruits of passionate pursuit --; title: Some hurdles, some triumphs.