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Inge's Ghosts

A "story" written in the form of an appendix/bibliography of an academic art history paper.

Images Referenced

sketch of a window floating in mid-air, with legs portruding from the bottom
Inge Rosenfeld, Sweetheart Goes Away [Liebchen Geht Weg], 1963, pencil on paper, archived sketchbook page, Vienna, Austria
sketch of a pigeon looking at a broken egg with the word mama written over and over again around it
Inge Rosenfeld, Mama - Dead or Alive? [Mama - Tot Oder Lebendig], 1967, pencil on paper, archived sketchbook page, Vienna, Austria
sketch of a woman reaching back toward many disembodied hands
Inge Rosenfeld, Untitled sketch of Lot's wife, 1969, pencil on paper, sketchbook page displayed alongside finished painting at Albertina Modern, Vienna, Austria
sketch of a woman holding a lyre with a chimera-like creature behind her
Inge Rosenfeld, Untitled sketch of Orpheus and Eurydice, 1970/71, pencil on paper, sketchbook page displayed alongside finished painting at Albertina Modern, Vienna, Austria

Bibliography

  • Albertina Modern. "Inge Rosenfeld: Fleeting Visions of Eros." Albertina Modern, 2006.
  • Araki, David. Inge and Eva: A Love Story in Letters. Print. Penguin, 2021.
  • Connor, Ruth. "Seduction of the Unseen: Negative Space, Obfuscation, and Yearning in the Late Surreal Works of Inge Rosenfeld." La femme surreal 17, no. 2 (2015): 147-67.
  • Gibbons, Xavier. "A scholar's surprise discovery sheds light on the unsolved disappearance of Inge Rosenfeld." The Guardian, 2021.
  • Henry, Fletcher. "Recovered Sketches Show Process & Pain of Cult Artist Inge Rosenfeld." Dazed, 2021.
  • Jung, Carl. Man and His Symbols. Print. Dell, 1968.
  • Lane, Gloria. "On Looking Back: The Ethical Implications of Inge Rosenfeld's Radical Reimaginings of Orpheus and Lot's Wife." Myth & Art 2, no. 1 (2017).
  • Martin, Esther. "Legacies of Loss: Inge Rosenfeld's Ghosts of Vienna." Spectrality 7, no. 1 (2009).
  • Ovid. The Metamorphoses. Translated by Arthur Golding. Print. Penguin, 2002.
  • Rosenfeld, Inge E. Complete Collected Journals, 1960-1971. Translated by Sabina Gross. Print. HarperCollins, 2011.
  • Ruiz, Trini. "Little-Known Austrian Woman Artist Takes Art World by Storm - 35 Years After Her Disappearance." New Yorker, 2007.