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Performative Disability: The Objectification of Atypical Physiognomy in the Self-Portraits of Egon Schiele
By Sophia Maldonado By the early-twentieth century, developments in medicine and psychology tremendously influenced the visual arts. From the medical photography of the Salpêtrière to the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud, the cultural attitudes and understandings of illnesses and treatments were available to artists whose work engaged with the medical community during this time. The…
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Prometheus & the Body Beautiful: Arno Breker and the Weaponization of the Greco-Roman Tradition in the Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung
By Sophia Maldonado Faculty mentor: Dr. Joe Romero 9:00-9:50am HCC 329 During the Third Reich (1933-1945), Hitler and the Nazis turned to the visual arts as a tool for propaganda to promote Hitler’s conception of the ideal people, i.e. the ‘Aryan’ race. Rooted in a calculate understanding of Greco-Roman civilization and culture, this conception of…
