Art Studies Magazine

Recently widowed American opera diva Caterina takes her teenaged son Joe with her on a long singing tour to Italy. Absorbed in her hectic work in various Verdi operas around Rome, Caterina is soon shocked to discover that her troubled and lonely son has become a heroin addict. Her desperate attempts to wean the youth off the drug result in an incestuous relationship, but also in a possibility to reunite Joe–maybe even herself–with his real father, whose existence she has kept a secret from him.

The wooden manikin is an age-old feature in art classrooms. This presentation by Larry Withers features Manny the manikin and demonstrates how useful a manikin can be in teaching figure drawing. The manikin is an art tool accessible to most art classes, saving the cost of a live figure model, the arrangements needed to provide one and overcoming the fact that live models get tired.

This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of civil liability for invasion of personality interests in Europe. This volume aims to detect hidden similarities (the 'common core') in the actual legal treatment accorded by different European countries to personal interests which in some of these countries qualify as 'personality rights', and also to detect hidden disparities in the 'law in action' of countries whose 'law in the books' seem to protect one and the same personality interest in the same way.