This pioneering work traces the emergence of the modern and contemporary art of Muslim South Asia in relation to transnational modernism and in light of the regions intellectual, cultural, and political developments.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Kunst - Kunstgeschichte, Note: 1,7, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Kunstgeschichte), Veranstaltung: Seminar, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wie entstand der Raffael-Kult und wie populär war dieser im 19.
Fragmentary Modernism begins from a simple observation: what has been called the 'apotheosis of the fragment' in the art and writing of modernism emerged hand in hand with a series of paradigm-shifting developments in classical scholarship, which brought an unprecedented number of fragmentary texts and objects from classical antiquity to light in modernity.
Fragmentary Modernism begins from a simple observation: what has been called the 'apotheosis of the fragment' in the art and writing of modernism emerged hand in hand with a series of paradigm-shifting developments in classical scholarship, which brought an unprecedented number of fragmentary texts and objects from classical antiquity to light in modernity.
The decades following the civil rights and decolonization movements of the sixties and seventiestermed the post-soul eracreated new ways to understand the aesthetics of global racial representation.
For years one of Germany's foremost cultural organizations, the Werkbund included in its membership such pioneers of the modern movement as Henry van de Velde, Hermann Muthesius, Walter Gropius, and Mies van der Rohe.
Inspired by a companion exhibition, Southern/Modern is the first book to survey progressive art created in the American South during the first half of the twentieth century.
Inspired by a companion exhibition, Southern/Modern is the first book to survey progressive art created in the American South during the first half of the twentieth century.
Barbara Nolan contends that attitudes toward the meaning of history, prophecy, and vision developed by religious writers of the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries fundamentally affected the shape of literary narrative and religious art for two centuries.
A trailblazer for women photographers in the South, North Carolinas Bayard Wootten (18751959) overcame economic hardship, gender discrimination, and the obscurity of a small-town upbringing to become the states most significant early female photographer.
From rare books, valuable sculpture and paintings, the relics of saints, and porcelain and other precious items, through stamps, textiles, military ribbons, and shells, to baseball cards, teddy bears, and mugs, an amazing variety of objects have engaged and even obsessed collectors through the ages.
A trailblazer for women photographers in the South, North Carolinas Bayard Wootten (18751959) overcame economic hardship, gender discrimination, and the obscurity of a small-town upbringing to become the states most significant early female photographer.
One of the most important monuments of Imperial Rome and at the same time one of the most poorly understood, the Column of Marcus Aurelius has long stood in the shadow of the Column of Trajan.
Going beyond photography as an isolated medium to engage larger questions and interlocking forms of expression and historical analysis, Ambivalent gathers a new generation of scholars based on the continent to offer an expansive frame for thinking about questions of photography and visibility in Africa.
If modernism initially came to Africa through colonial contact, what does Ethiopia's inimitable historical condition-its independence save for five years under Italian occupation-mean for its own modernist tradition?
In 1985, the Sohio oil company commissioned Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen to design and construct a large outdoor sculpture for its new corporate headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio.
From 1952 to 1981, South Africa's apartheid government ran an art school for the training of African art teachers at Indaleni, in what is today KwaZulu-Natal.
Before he joined the staff of Punch and designed its iconic front cover, illustrator Richard "e;Dicky"e; Doyle was a young man whose father (political caricaturist John Doyle) charged him with sending a weekly letter, even though they lived under the same roof.
Phenomenology has played a decisive role in the emergence of the discourse of place, now indispensable to many disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, and the contribution of Merleau-Ponty's thought to architectural theory and practice is well established.
Drawing from 167 examples of decorative needlework-primarily samplers and quilts from 114 collections across the United States-made by individual women aged forty years and over between 1820 and 1860, this exquisitely illustrated book explores how women experienced social and cultural change in antebellum America.
This pioneering work traces the emergence of the modern and contemporary art of Muslim South Asia in relation to transnational modernism and in light of the regions intellectual, cultural, and political developments.
A groundbreaking work on how the topic of scale provides an entirely new understanding of Inca material cultureAlthough questions of form and style are fundamental to art history, the issue of scale has been surprisingly neglected.
By examining the Japanese history of buildings and building designs from prehistory to modern day, lovers of Japan will develop a deeper understanding and appreciation of this island country.
Now available in a gorgeous hardcover slipcase edition, this "e;object d'art"e; will be sure to add grace and elegance to tea shelves, coffee tables and bookshelves.
Responding to the decline of the monarchy and the church in post-revolutionary France, theorists representing a wide spectrum of leftist ideologies proposed comprehensive blueprints for society that assigned a crucial role to aesthetics.
Excavation of the ancient city of Morgantina in southeastern Sicily since 1955 has recovered an extraordinary quantity and variety of pottery, both locally made and imported.
