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Do you know how to decode modernist literature and art?
by Dr Jan Maureen White
Do you know how to decode modernist literature and art?
Artist, writer, art historian Dr Jan Maureen White, has a Winston Churchill Fellowship to research in America 2009: novelist Janet Frame’s life in the USA; New Yorker Len Lye, innovator in film and kinetics, and NZ painter using Hans Hofmann’s techniques Colin McCahon’s visit to America. Dr White decodes the layered symbolic motifs in these artists’ works. Dr White will interview Professor Karl Kasten, Berkeley University, research the Special Collections Library, Pennsylvania State and the Jewish Museum, NYC. Frame was a resident writer at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony and her works were published by George Braziller and Carl Brandt include: Owls Do Cry and Scented Gardens for the Blind.
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