Nochlin’s essay interrogates every angle of the question, opening it up beyond gender to issues of race and class as well. If you read Nochlin’s text, you’ll gather that she poses this question not necessarily because she believes it to be true, but rather to challenge the assumptions behind it and the reactions to it - both by feminists who counter by naming female artists and misogynists who believe “women are incapable of greatness.” According to Nochlin’s granddaughter, Julia Trotta, the French fashion house reached out a few months ago to collaborate. It was a question first asked in 1971 by the American art historian Linda Nochlin, whose original essay of the same title was printed in pamphlets for the Paris Fashion Week crowd to take home in their shoulder bags. On Tuesday afternoon in Paris, the Dior spring 2018 show opened with a graphic T-shirt that read, in all caps: “WHY HAVE THERE BEEN NO GREAT WOMEN ARTISTS?” Photo: Victor VIRGILE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
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He has since apologized for the plethora of lies, which he called simply an "embellishment." He later walked that back, claiming he said he was "Jew-ish." He also lied about the circumstances of his mother's death while campaigning, said he went to two universities that denied his attendance, and lied about his employment history. Santos, a Catholic, repeatedly claimed to be Jewish while he was campaigning. Shortly after Santos took office this year, news reports surfaced saying that he had lied about several key aspects of his background while on the campaign trail. Instead, Santos spent "thousands of dollars of the solicited funds on personal expenses, including luxury designer clothing and credit card payments," prosecutors say in the indictment. Prosecutors allege in the indictment that before Santos was elected to Congress, he "executed a scheme to defraud supporters of his candidacy for the House and to obtain money from them by fraudulently inducing them to contribute funds" to an LLC he ran under the false pretense that the cash would be used to support his candidacy. 6/25/2023 0 Comments Monster steve harmonThere is no information revealed about her personal life, her career, or her feelings about the trial. O'Brien is a "flat character"-she does not change over the course of the novel, and she lacks emotional depth. Kathy O'Brien is the public defender assigned to Steve. The conflict between exterior versus interior is a significant theme throughout the novel. Steve struggles to reconcile his external versus internal lives. He is confronted with his parent's disappointment, and he also fears that authorities view him as a "monster." Particularly, Steve is bothered by his relationship with his defense attorney, Kathy O'Brien, who seems not to believe him. Throughout the story, Steve faces numerous emotional challenges. Thus, Steve's culpability is subject to audience interpretation. There is no surveillance footage or concrete proof of his involvement. Whether Steve was actually involved in the crime or not remains ambiguous to the reader. As a means of coping with jail life, Steve draws upon his interests in film and storytelling and writes down his experiences in the format of a movie script. In the opening pages, we learn that Steve is currently in prison awaiting trial for murder. He is sixteen years old, lives in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, and he is a student at Stuyvesant High School in downtown Manhattan. Steve Harmon is the novel's main character. 6/25/2023 0 Comments Without Child by Laurie LisleWithout Child bring childless women out of obscurity and places them back in women's history.Without Child brings scope and depth to a subject that has long been misunderstood. However, like other aspects of women's history, this tradition has been forgotten and, in the process, maligned. It also examines the childless woman's relationship to mothers and mothering, to her femininity, to men, to achievement, to her body,and to old age.Laurie Lisle contends that childless women are part of an ancient and respectable cultural tradition that includes biblical matriarchs, celibate saints, and nineteenth-century social reformers. Beginning with the difficult inner journey a woman faces before finally deciding or realizing she will not bear children, Without Child explores the myth of the childless woman's rejection of the maternal instinct. Without Child challenges the stigma of childlessness by offering childless women the lifeaffirming story of themselves. 6/24/2023 0 Comments Area x trilogyThe first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape all the members of the second expedition committed suicide the third expedition died in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another the members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within months of their return, all had died of aggressive cancer. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. Area X-a remote and lush terrain-has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. In time for the holidays, a single-volume hardcover edition that brings together the three volumes of the Southern Reach Trilogy, which were originally published as paperback originals in February, May, and September 2014."Annihilation "is the first volume in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, "Authority "is the second, and "Acceptance" is the third. Print Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy: Annihilation Authority Acceptance 6/24/2023 0 Comments Strange academy skottie youngIt’s always hard to judge correctly hitting a voice that is like actual teenagers, with most creators and reviewers not being teens ourselves, but working with teens daily as a career I can say Young hits it pretty spot on. We’re attached to her and her well-being after all this time, but the perspective shift is meant to show us that she’s in the wrong and going too far and we’re not as connected to her anymore. We’re becoming detached from Emily more here, as she turns darker & turns against more and more of her people, which Skottie Young does perfectly because it shows us how far she’s fallen. We’ve had a lot of students’ points of view around Emily being our point person, but the choice to use one of the students we haven’t seen or gotten to know recapping things through a terrified letter to home is such a good touch. Funny how those things work out, something about appearance and judging and all that. Most figured the destroyer was Doyle Dormammu because of the fact that the dreaded Dormammu is his father, but turns out Emily is the threat and Doyle might be the one meant to save everything. Oh and way back at the beginning of the school year there was a prophecy about one student being the savior of the school and world and another being its destroyer. 6/24/2023 0 Comments Solzhenitsyn ivan denisovichGulags were forced labor camps where millions of people were sent for "crimes" like practicing a certain religion, having contact with foreigners, and speaking out against the government. What on earth is a gulag? Well, "gulag" is the name of a type of prison that existed in Soviet Russia. This book is a work of fiction, but it is also a kind of journalistic tell-all about a serious topic: the gulag system. See, One Day was a hugely bold and controversial book that was published in 1962 in Soviet Russia. In fact, this book's history is kind of nuts. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich IntroductionĪ lot of books have a fairly typical history – author writes book, book gets published, people read it, author says "hooray!" One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is not one of those books. 6/24/2023 0 Comments Lily and the octopus book reviewTed consults his mother and his best friend, Trent, about the situation. These include surgery, pills, and radiation, but surgery is determined by Ted to be out of the question because of Lily’s advanced age. Several options are given to Ted at the vet relating to Lily’s future. Everything that Ted does, Lily is somehow made a part of. Ted also imbues Lily with her own voice and speech, though she does not actually speak in words but instead through her actions and manners. Ted does everything from watching movies to playing Monopoly with Lily, though Lily herself does not actually play Monopoly. She has been his constant companion for twelve and a half years and has been with him through all the trials of his life in that time, including the bad relationship he had with Jeffrey for six years. Ted imagines the octopus is alive, and is a creature that must be defeated in order to save Lily’s life. When the novel begins, Ted suddenly notices one night that Lily has a tumor on her head–something he will come to call the “octopus” because he looks at the tumor as though it was something squeezing the life out of Lily like an octopus. Lily and the Octopus is a novel by Steven Rowley in which forty-two-year-old Ted Flask must face the heartbreaking decision to put his beloved dog, Lily, to sleep. Note: Citations in this study guide refer to the June 2016 Simon and Schuster first hardcover edition of Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley. As a result of their split, Tasha went to live with friends of the family in Redding, Connecticut. Tasha’s parents divorced when she was nine, following her mother's rejection of the strict society in Boston in favor of a more bohemian existence as a painter in Greenwich Village. She spent her early years in Marblehead, Massachusetts, before her father's work relocated the family to North Chevy Chase in Maryland to help with the Wartime effort. At birth, she was named "Starling" after her father, but he was an admirer of the War and Peace character Natasha, and his daughter was soon re-christened Natasha, which was later shortened to Tasha. Starling Burgess and noted portrait painter Rosamund Tudor. Tasha Tudor was born in Boston, Massachusetts as Starling Burgess, the daughter of naval architect W. Tasha Tudor (Aug– June 18, 2008) was an American illustrator and writer of children's books. Tasha Tudor shaving splints from a log on her Vermont farm in 1977 6/23/2023 0 Comments After the fire will hillI don’t know, but this fit the bill beautifully with both the subject matter and the way it was told, with everything unraveling bit by bit.Ĭontent warning for abuse (physical and psychological) and mildly graphic depictions of death. I was also really in a thriller mood, okay? It happens every now and then, because after all the death and war and fire of YA fantasy, sometimes you want … more death and fire? Plus, the idea of After the Fire being written from the perspective of a cult member was really appealing. Second … have you read the summary?! I’m a big sucker for duplicity and lies and things not being as they seem. It’s no secret that a lot of people have a sort of fascination with cults, and I’m no exception-though I don’t normally read fiction about cults.īut with this one? First, I read some positive reviews about it from people whose opinion I respect, and that goes a long way. |