kathe kollwitz ((".when i am unable to speak--"))

die lebenden dem toten ...


maria und elisabeth




(the final living breathing image of this is at the university art gallery for a temporary collection. it kicks ass.)






emile zola and naturalist fiction movement, hands, early symbolism, art school and family, marriage, bisexual persona of artist--don man's eyes issue (how do you take off sex, and why did one have to make overt movements/statements re: this instead of just being fluid etc), actual struggle with new mediums mentioned/documented, working class "sympathy", the weaver's uprising play, poems she liked, final break / peace protest pre-second world war, gold medal/kaiser fiasco, ms piok-zanon in the snowy lit hall talking, young college women thing, professor mccloskey, horizon, "grief," that paper (by whom, again??) about the capacity for expressing profundity of ideas in a medium such as, as lithography (?) etc AS OPPOSED TO oil paints for example because of the paints' boundedness or always-connection to the natural world...issue of ability for repetition connected to imagination. ...consternation and common public, floors falling ...


thinking about kathe kollwitz is...it's depressing. that sounds lame but --