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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
An Imaged Life. Wanda Wulz And The Familiar Archive, Silvia Valisa
An Imaged Life. Wanda Wulz And The Familiar Archive, Silvia Valisa
Silvia Valisa
This essay reviews Italian photographer Wanda Wulz's (1903-1984) artistic production in light of the family archive it belongs to, and it proposes an in-depth reading of Wulz's most famous avant-garde photograph, "Io + gatto." The Trieste-based Wulz family -Wanda's grandfather Giuseppe, her father Carlo, sisters Marion and Wanda- produced an impressive body of work that crosses genres, generations and styles. In particular, Wanda Wulz, an established professional in an epoch in which women were most often only the targets of the photographic gaze, brought a new sensibility to Italian photography, and contributed some of the most original Italian photographs of …
Still Figures: Photography, Modernity And Gender In Neera’S Fotografie Matrimoniali, Silvia Valisa
Still Figures: Photography, Modernity And Gender In Neera’S Fotografie Matrimoniali, Silvia Valisa
Silvia Valisa
This essay discusses author Neera's early novel "Fotografie matrimoniali" (1883) in light of its ambiguous engagement with modernity. I argue that modernity takes on different meanings and ideological connotations in the text, in particular in its discussion of gender, while participating in a nationalist rhetoric that simultaneously gives room to and ‘frames’ its female subjects. I thus investigate how the representation of gender roles is impacted by the changes brought forward by modernity, and discuss whether Neera’s formal (photographic) choice succeeds in opening a different narrative and ideological space.
Masterpieces Of Italian Literature In Translation, Silvia Valisa
Masterpieces Of Italian Literature In Translation, Silvia Valisa
Silvia Valisa
No abstract provided.
Interdisciplinary Seminar "Nation, Gender And Literature", Silvia Valisa
Interdisciplinary Seminar "Nation, Gender And Literature", Silvia Valisa
Silvia Valisa
No abstract provided.