Providence by Alain Resnais (1977) offers a reflection on human imagination and the creation of art. Within the structure, narration and symbolism of the film, the motive of alcohol plays a decisive role, as all the characters are drinking wine during …
A German-born immigrant in Paris, Wols was incarcerated in the concentration camp Les Milles. Demoralized by the camp, its conditions and the absurd historical situation he had to live in, Wols, already a person dealing with a drinking problem, became …
Erinnerungen an die Spiegelsäle von Brüssel is an oil painting on canvas of 1920 by Otto Dix, which has mostly been analysed as an anti-militarist and pacifist work of art. After showing the problematic aspects of this interpretation, which ignores f…
This study examines the role given to alcohol in the context of the bohemia lifestyle as it developed in Madrid in the years 1885–1920. Alcohol consumption was a major element in the construction of the conflictual identity of the bohemio: it was wit…
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