Kategoria BISAC: Art >> History - General

Translation and the Arts in Modern France sits at the intersection of transposition, translation, and ekphrasis, finding resonances in these areas across periods, places, and forms. Within these contributions, questions of colonization, subjugation, migration, and exile connect Benin to Brittany, and political philosophy to the sentimental novel and to film. Focusing on cultural production from 1830 to the present and privileging French culture, the contributors explore interactions with other cultures, countries, and continents, often explicitly equating intercultural permeability with...

Violence and Power in Ancient Egypt examines the use of Egyptian pictures of violence prior to the New Kingdom. Starting with the assertion that making and displaying such images served as a tactic of power, related to but separate from the actual practice of violence, the book explores the development and deployment of this imagery across different contexts. By comparatively utilizing violent images from a variety of other times and cultures, the book asks that we consider not only how Egyptian imagery was related to Egyptian violence, but also why people create pictures of...

This volume commemorates the 160^th anniversary of the Selamlik of Oberhofen Castle near Thun one of the most significant Swiss Orientalist interiors, designed by the Bernese architect Theodor Zeerleder (1820 1868) by presenting the latest research on the spectacular smoking room inspired by the luxurious reception halls in Cairo, which Zeerleder discovered during his travels to the East. At the same time, this collection of essays explores the significance of the famous city on the Nile as a privileged model for 19th-century architecture and ornamentation, bringing together...

These lectures, as a system of AEsthetics, consist of an application of the experimental method to art, in the same manner as it is applied to the sciences. Whatever utility the system possesses is due to this principle. The author undertakes to explain art by social influences and other causes; humanity at different times and...

The contributors include philosophers, art historians, architects and art practitioners who go beyond the mere complementarity of philosophy and art history. They are generous with the types of art they examine, including architecture, cinema, dance, and new...

A cultural history of the face in Western art, ranging from portraiture in painting and photography to film, theater, and mass media

This fascinating book presents the first cultural history and anthropology of the face across centuries, continents, and media. Ranging from funerary masks and masks in drama to the figural work of contemporary artists including Cindy Sherman and Nam June Paik, renowned art historian Hans Belting emphasizes that while the face plays a critical role in human communication, it defies attempts at visual representation.

Belting divides his book...

A landmark work that demystifies the rich tradition of Indian art, Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization analyzes key motifs found in legend, myth, and folklore taken directly from the Sanskrit. It provides a comprehensive introduction to visual thinking and picture reading in Indian art and thought. Ultimately, the book shows that profound Hindu and Buddhist intuitions on the riddles of life and death are universally recognizable.

Starting in the Renaissance, Bertoloni Meli delves into the wide...

"Advances recent investigations in both the history of collecting traditional, modern, and contemporary Korean art outside the country of origin and the aesthetic, iconographic, and cultural dimensions of Korean art in its local, regional, and international contexts."--Richard A. Born, senior curator emeritus, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago

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Kunstler, die mit neuen Medien arbeiten, zeigen in der Regel einen kritischen Medien-Ansatz, anders als Kunstler die mit traditionellen Kunstmedien arbeiten. Worin liegt der Unterschied zwischen Medien-Kunstlern und Kunstlern, die moderne Kunst produzieren? Welche Schlusselwerke machen diesen Trend sichtbar?

Der Autor untersucht die Beziehung von Kunst und Technologie an beispielhaften Arbeiten von Edward Ihnatowicz und Harald Cohen sowie an der pionierhaften Computerkunst-Ausstellung auf der Dokumenta X im Jahr 1997. Er argumentiert dabei gegen die allgemein geltende Ansicht, dass...

Eric Ravilious is one of the best-known twentieth-century English artists. For many, his watercolors capture the spirit of midcentury England. But while he had a style of his own, he did not work in isolation; he worked within a network of artists that included fellow students at the Royal College of Art such as Edward Bawden, Barnett Freedman, Enid Marx, Percy Horton, Peggy Angus, and Helen Binyon.

The story of this beloved artist is also a biography of the group of fellow creators with whom he associated--men and women who inspired, challenged, and influenced one another--from...