Drawing on unpublished archival sources, this book reconstitutes the experiences of a wide range of American artists, critics, and writers working in Rome in a charged environment of Cold War cosmopolitanism.
This volume explores how narratives and iconographic codes in literature, art, music, material culture and social, political, and economic discourses were appropriated and thereby - sometimes radically - transformed by religious agents, and how religious narrations, discourses and iconographic practices were reimagined and used (up to radical deconstruction) in non-religious contexts as well as in different or transformed religious contexts.
Since its original publication in 1979, The Possibility of Naturalism has been one of the most influential works in contemporary philosophy of science and social science.
Die kunstwissenschaftliche Perspektivierung auf Heiner Müllers Werk lässt gänzlich neue Bezugssysteme und Lesarten zu und widmet sich der Erforschung bislang wenig erschlossener Dimensionen seines Gesamtkunstwerks.
William Holman Hunt's "e;The Triumph of the Innocents"e; explores themes of innocence, suffering, and redemption through an intricate narrative framed by the Biblical Massacre of the Innocents.
This book investigates the aesthetic and political dialectics of East Berlin to argue how its theater and opera stages incited artists to act out, fuel, and resist the troubled construction of political legitimacy.
This novel is considered the last novel by the writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky, as he decided, after the death of his son Alexei in an epileptic fit, to search for a way out of his tragedy.
Covering 2001 to today, Designing Retail Experience in the 21st Century presents readers with a critical, cross-disciplinary perspective on retail design, bringing together scholarship from design, architecture, branding, cultural studies and social studies.
Monumental cares rethinks monument debates, site specificity and art activism in light of problems that strike us as monumental or overwhelming, such as war, migration and the climate crisis.
In postwar Britain, journalists and politicians predicted that the class system would not survive a consumer culture where everyone had TVs and washing machines, and where more and more people owned their own homes.
This edited volume traces the development of art practices in Ukraine from the 2004 Orange Revolution, through the 2013-2014 Revolution of Dignity, to the ongoing Russian war of aggression.
This book aims to enhance our intellectual understanding of the relationship between human beings and domestic animals, with a focus on a specific breed of dog: the greyhound.
Discover the Transformative Power of PotteryImagine immersing yourself in the tactile joy of clay, shaping it with your own hands, and transforming it into art.
This ground-breaking new history of modern art explores the relationship between art and knowledge from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day.
Der Westminster Palast, eines der berühmtesten Bauwerke der Welt, steht als Sinnbild für die politische Macht Großbritanniens und die wechselvolle Geschichte der Nation.
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Archaeology offers comprehensive perspectives on the origins and developments of the discipline of archaeology and the direction of future advances in the field.
This book considers how art market stakeholders, including art dealers, collectors and agents, have shaped museum collections and affected exhibition practices since the mid-nineteenth century.
This anthology honors Lawrence Nees' expansive contributions to medieval art historical inquiry and teaching on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Delaware.
Seit einiger Zeit werden Karten als hybride Ordnung von Wissen in den Kontext der bildlichen wie auch schriftlichen Überlieferung ihrer Zeit gestellt und als Visualisierung, Konstitution und Aneignung von Raum erschlossen.
