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Intriguing parallels arise between contemporary end of life images and themes expressed historically in the writings of Thérèse of Lisieux, the Catholic saint who is known as the "Little Flower." Drawing on her combined experiences as a professor of the humanities at Rice University, and as an Artist In Residence in Palliative, Rehabilitation, and Integrative Medicine at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, the author examines topics such as the p...

The Italian-American family is a unique and wonderful cultural entity. From the bond between generations, to collective responses to adversity, to its overwhelming love of food - the family is central to Italian-America.Sharing stories of her extended Italian-American family in this personal memoir, Marcia Brennan shows how cultural histories can be deeply interwoven with the magic of blessings, curses, and other forms of creation. From the ri...

Professor Marcia Brennan tells the story of how she engages with the mystical and angelic worlds￿and how you can connect with these realms, as well.

How postwar abstract modernist paintings came to be seen as metaphorical embodiments of masculine selfhood, an examination of the critical discourse surrounding the work of Matisse, de Kooning, Pollock, and the post-painterly Abstractionists.

This book can change not only how we view the end of life, but how we view life itself and the many different types of love that we experience as human beings.

Artist and scholar Marcia Brennan serves as Artist in Residence at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and the experience of seeing, close-up, the transitional states and transformational visions involved in the approaching end of life raised countless questions about the intersection of life, death, and art.             Those questions are at the heart of this unique book. Bridging disparate fields, including art history, medical hum...

In the early 1940s, John and Dominique de Menil began to acquire art. The de Menils proceeded to develop an inspired collection that would eventually find a permanent home at The Menil Collection in Houston. This book showcases some fifty works that the de Menils collected, including pieces by major twentieth-century artists.

How prominent curator and author James Johnson Sweeney cast the modern museum as a secular temple of art.

How prominent curator and author James Johnson Sweeney cast the modern museum as a secular temple of art.

In the era of "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit" -- when social pressures on men to conform threatened cherished notions of masculine vitality, freedom, and authenticity -- modernist paintings came to be seen as metaphorical embodiments of both idealized and highly conflicted conceptions of masculine selfhood. In "Modernism's Masculine Subjects, " Marcia Brennan traces the formalist critical discourses in which work by such artists as Henri Ma...