Nicholas Sawicki

Bio

Nicholas Sawicki is Professor of Art History at Lehigh University. He is a historian of early twentieth-century art who writes on modernism in central and eastern Europe. Most recently, he is the author with Marie Rakušanová of Through the Eyes of Franz Kafka: Between Image and Language (Kant, 2024), available through Distributed Art Publishers.

Contributions

The Eye and the Hand in Kafka’s Drawings

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In the years leading up to the recent centennial of Franz Kafka’s death, perhaps the most significant revelation to emerge about the paragon of twentieth-century literature is that he had a strong interest in drawing. Over one hundred pages of drawings by Kafka, most of them previously unknown, were made public in 2021 by the National Library of Israel in an online repository, and they have opened the door to new consideration of the place of visual production in Kafka’s life and work. An...

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