Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Criticism & Theory

This book examines a range of visual images of military recruitment to explore changing notions of glory, or of gloire, during the French Revolution. It raises questions about how this event re-orientated notions of 'citizenship' and of service to 'la Patrie'. The opening lines of the Marseillaise are grandly declamatory: Allons enfants de la Patrie/le jour de gloire est arrive or, in English: Arise, children of the Homeland/The day of glory has arrived What do these words mean in their later eighteenth-century French context? What was gloire and how...

Das Buch nimmt die Frage zum Ausgangspunkt, inwiefern sich die Gefuhlsqualitat filmischer Bilder analytisch qualifizieren lasst. Lassen sich Prinzipien und Muster audiovisueller Komposition als Fixpunkte einer Wirkungsasthetik des Films fassen? Als Zugang dient zunachst Musiktheorie: Wenn visuelle und auditive Gestaltungsmittel des Films in gemeinsamen, audiovisuellen Prinzipien der Filmkomposition aufgingen, dann sollten sich emotionstheoretische Modelle zur Wahrnehmung von Musik auch auf das filmische Bild als audiovisuelles Wahrnehmungsganzes beziehen lassen. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird...

Two authorities on popular culture reveal the ways in which art can enhance mood and enrich lives - now available in paperback

This passionate, thought-provoking, often funny, and always-accessible book proposes a new way of looking at art, suggesting that it can be useful, relevant, and therapeutic. Through practical examples, the world-renowned authors argue that certain great works of art have clues as to how to manage the tensions and confusions of modern life. Chapters on love, nature, money, and politics show how art can help with many common difficulties, from...

This volume aims to question, challenge, supplement, and revise current understandings of the relationship between aesthetic and political operations. The authors transcend disciplinary boundaries and nurture a wide-ranging sensibility about art and sovereignty, two highly complex and interwoven dimensions of human experience that have rarely been explored by scholars in one conceptual space. Several chapters consider the intertwining of modern philosophical currents and modernist artistic forms, in particular those revealing formal abstraction, stylistic experimentation, self-conscious...

This volume examines the motives behind rejections of beauty often found within contemporary art practice, where much critically acclaimed art is deliberately ugly and alienating. It reflects on the nature and value of beauty, asking whether beauty still has a future in art and what role it can play in our lives generally. The volume discusses the possible end of art, what art is, and the relation between art and beauty beyond their historically Western horizons to include perspectives from Asia.

The individual chapters address a number of interrelated issues, including: art, beauty...

Der heutige Museumsbesucher orientiert sich an eingeubten Verhaltensmustern, die eine eigene Geschichte haben. In dieser Studie wird am Beispiel der Jahresausstellungen der koniglichen Kunstakademie im Louvre untersucht, wie sich Normen einer offentlichen Kunstbetrachtung im Zeitalter der Aufklarung etablierten und schliesslich hinterfragt wurden. Erstmalig wird auf Basis eines umfassenden und kritischen Quellenstudiums herausgearbeitet, wie sich das Verstandnis von einem passiv bewundernden hin zu einem kreativ (mit)gestaltenden, korperlich wie emotional bewegten Bildbetrachter...

Can any of us entirely banish from our hearts and minds grave misgivings about the condition of the culture we now inhabit? Expressions of those misgivings are mostly unheard in public forums, ignored in the dominant media, and, if noticed at all, dismissed by state-supported bureaucracies and commercial vested interests. To have any chance of gaining attention, they must resolve themselves into coherent forms. We need to clarify our perceptions of the things that trouble us, by articulating and developing our thoughts about them. That is, we are in need of serious...

This book examines the use of image and text juxtapositions in conceptual art as a strategy for challenging several ideological and institutional demands placed on art. While conceptual art is generally identified by its use of language, this book makes clear exactly how language was used. In particular, it asks: How has the presence of language in a visual art context changed the ways art is talked about, theorised and produced? Image and Text in Conceptual Art demonstrates how artworks communicate in context and evaluates their critical potential. It discusses international case...