Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life offers an original approach to early French modernism, one informed by the art’s unprecedented psychological intensity. Focusing on the early work of Paul Cézanne, André Dombrowski uncovers a new history of the emergence of modern painting rooted in the evocation of emotive “expression” and emblematized by scenes of murder, sexual violence, and anxious domesticity.
Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life
Black Media Matters: Remembering the Bombing of Osage Avenue (1987)
The year was 1987. Ronald Reagan was midway through his second term. W. Wilson Goode was serving his first term as the first black mayor of the city of Philadelphia. Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It had been released a year earlier; the first episode of Eyes on the Prize, a groundbreaking television se- ries about the history of the civil rights movement, had pre- miered in January, and at 10 pm on February 24, The Bombing of Osage Avenue was broadcast nationally on PBS.
