Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Subjects & Themes - General

Throughout the past century, traumatic experiences have been re-enacted frequently by evolving media and art forms. Now there is a significant body of theory across academic disciplines focused on the representation of cataclysmic European and US historical events. However, less critical attention has been devoted to the representation of havoc outside the West, even though depictions of Third-World disasters saturate contemporary media and art around the globe.

This book considers traumatic histories internationally in a broad range of creative arts and visual media representations....

Art Directory Germany, Austria, Switzerland offers extensive and up-to-date information concerning art. The user can find in the 21st edition more than 33,000 addresses with names, dates and facts. Addresses from the following areas are included:

• Museums and public galleries
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• Artists

A new chapter completes the information on art: Exhibitions calendar...

Becoming Modern, Becoming Tradition examines the relationships among women, nationalism, racial identity, and modernity before, during, and after the Mexican Revolution. In this innovative study, Adriana Zavala demonstrates that the image of Mexican womanhood, whether stereotyped as Indian, urban, modern, sexually "degenerate," or otherwise, was symbolically charged in complex ways both before and after the so-called postrevolutionary cultural renaissance, and that crucial aspects of postrevolutionary culture remained rooted in nineteenth-century conceptions of woman as the bearer...

The Art of Ancient Greek Theater considers the vibrant imprint that ancient Greek tragedy and comedy left on the visual arts of classical Greece. Theatrical performance as we know it originated in the mid-sixth century B.C. with choral dances held in honor of Dionysos, the Greek god of wine and patron of the theater. The great tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, as well as the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander are preserved as some of the world's most renowned literature and have formed the basis for theater performance as it is still practiced. Beyond being popular in...

This volume examines the ways that sovereign rulers have employed well-defined symbols, attributes, and stereotypes to convey their power to their subjects and rivals, as well as to leave a legacy for subsequent generations to admire.

Legendary rulers from antiquity such as Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Constantine have been looked to as models for their display of imperial power by the rulers of later eras. From medieval sovereigns such as Charlemagne and France s Louis IX to the tsars of Russia and the great European royal dynasties of the Hapsburgs, the Bourbons, and the...

Das Jahrbuch und die Begleitreihe Millennium-Studien wollen Grenzen uberschreiten, Grenzen zwischen den Epochen und regionalen Raumen wie auch Grenzen zwischen den Disziplinen. Millennium ist international, transdisziplinar und epochenubergreifend ausgerichtet. Das Herausgebergremium und der Beirat reprasentieren ein breites Spektrum von Fachern: Kunst- und literaturwissenschaftliche Beitrage kommen ebenso zu ihrem Rechtwie historische, theologische und philosophische, Beitrage zu den lateinischen und griechischen Kulturen ebenso wie zu den orientalischen.

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Kristeva considers the head as icon, artifact, and locus of thought, seeking a...