Alessandra Comini
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Overflowing with passion for her work as a scholar and teacher, Distinguished Professor of Art History Emerita at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, Alessandra Comini reminisces 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 sixty years of daily journals, sharing research-related anecdotes...
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Megan Crespi is back in Europe researching for a biography on "the other Mendelssohn," Felix's sister Fanny, also a prolific and until recently long overlooked composer. She is joined by three colleagues from the fields of music, museum, and photography. They encounter a spate of antisemitic demonstrations masterminded by neo-Nazi organizations in the two German cities associated with the Mendelssohns, Hamburg and Berlin. American composer Simon Saragon's...
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After visiting the nineteenth-century German/Texan sculptor Elisabet Ney Museum in Austin, art crimes detective Professor Megan Crespi identifies an unknown bust of the young, beardless Johannes Brahms in a local antique store, and happily acquires it. Two days later she speaks on Brahms and the Visual Arts in his birth city of Hamburg. She continues to Vienna where she is to lecture on Gustav Klimt and Music and attend a controversial concert series...