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Die Rollen von Weiblichkeit und Männlichkeit in der Kunst Max BeckmannsMax Beckmann (1884-1950) ist einer der großen Künstler der Moderne und gilt als kraftvoller Interpret der Welt und seiner Zeit. Sein Hauptinteresse galt dem Menschen. Die Publikation untersucht erstmals die zahlreichen, oft widersprüchlichen Rollen von Weiblichkeit und Männlichkeit in seiner Kunst. Rund 150 Gemälde, Plastiken und Werke auf Papier illustrieren die Breite und...

Ann Copeland has lived a mountain of yesterdays as a teacher, fiction writer, vowed religious, wife, and mother. Throughout her rich and varied life, there has been one constant: Copeland's dedication to amateur music-making in its many forms - composing, playing, arranging, partnering, studying, and improvising - and in its many possible settings-alone or with others, in chapels, living rooms, and schools, in locations foreign and domestic, i...

The Golden Thread introduces Claire Delaney, an ambitious, idealistic and highly rational young woman called to be a nun. In these eleven stories, readers hear the joy of praise, feel the itch of stockings and habit, taste the gall of obedience, and, finally, share the pain and delight when Claire renounces her vows and embraces the secular life.

Ann Copeland jumps over the convent wall with Season of Apples, a book of stories about ordinary people surprised by their own sudden growth. With their special brand of serious good humour, Copeland's characters gently push readers towards their own self-knowledge.Men and women of all ages star in Season of Apples, and all find themselves at some kind of threshold or on the brink of a life change. In "Another Country", a mother finally connec...

In The Golden Thread, Ann Copeland's last book of stories, Claire Delaney emerged from her convent after eleven years as a nun. Now, in the linked stories in Strange Bodies on a Stranger Shore, Copeland takes Claire into the complicated territory of middle age. As her oldest son starts college, Claire revisits her young self, when she followed the call to religious life and later the mature knowledge that she must leave it. Moving between the ...