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Empowering Interactions
The emergence of the state in Europe is a topic that has engaged historians since the establishment of the discipline of history. Yet the primary focus of has nearly always been to take a top-down approach, whereby the formation and consolidation of public institutions is viewed as the outcome of activities by princes and other social elites. Yet, as the essays in this collection show, such an approach does not provide a complete picture. By investigating the importance of local and individual initiatives that contributed to state building from the late middle ages through to the nineteenth century, this volume shows how popular pressure could influence those in power to develop new institut...
The Artist as Murderer
The 4th century BC Greek painter Parrhasius murdered his model--an old man who was his slave--to achieve, so the story goes, a more lifelike depiction of nature. The tale has inspired similar, more elaborate stories about both well known and obscure artists--including Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Rubens. Elements of the tale have appeared in theater, literature and film, as well as in comments by painters, historians, critics and anatomists. Challenging the archetype of the artist as a sympathetic lover of nature, this book examines the artist as cruel and murderous in service of art and ambition, and indirectly addresses a different understanding of the relationship between art and life.
The Master of Flémalle and Rogier Van Der Weyden
This volume collects more than 50 masterpieces from the most important museums in the world and presents them side by side to encourage direct comparison.
Artist Complex
With the Jungian term of the complex the present volume inquires about the making of the artistic persona in twentieth-century photography. The articles examine photographic (self-)portraits, the dynamics between self-statements of artists and photographers, the interrelations of photography, of painting and of performance art and investigate their origins in the history of ideas. The volume traces a portrait of photography as a metascience; as preparatory work, a source of inspiration and an alternate medium in which artists could explore different subjects. With essays by Ulrike Blumenthal, Till Cremer, Victoria Fleury, Jadwiga Kamola, Weronika Kobylińska-Bunsch, Nadja Köffler, Constance Krüger, Wilma Scheschonk, Gerd Zillner.
"Violenza"
In Michelangelos Werk, seinem Künstlermythos und seiner Nachfolge ist Gewalt omnipräsent: als Bildthema wie als Erzählmotiv zur Veranschaulichung von Kreations- und Rezeptionsprozessen. Ausgehend von der Semantik des Begriffs "Violenza" im Sprachgebrauch des 16. Jahrhunderts, legt diese Arbeit Gewalt als zentrale Kategorie des michelangelesken Kunstdiskurses frei, die es ermöglichte, Aspekte wie Kraft, Zerstörung und kalkulierten Regelverstoß konzeptuell fassbar zu machen. Anhand zahlreicher Werk- und Textanalysen wird die Gewaltaffinität von Michelangelos sprichwörtlicher "Terribilità" ebenso beleuchtet wie die kunsttheoretischen Vorstellungen von gewaltsamer künstlerischer "Agency" im Umfeld des legendären Ausnahmekünstlers.
Körperbilder der Macht in Europa: 1300–1800
The visualization of power takes place until today quite significantly via visualizations of the body. Expressed pointedly: there is no power without pictures of the body. This also applies in particular to the European societies of the Middle Ages and early modern period, in which the body of the ruler was both a guarantee and a preferred projection figure for the political order. In this body, not only was power legitimized, but also constituted in the first place by means of countless documents of representation — and thus through pictures of the body in actu.This volume strives for the first time to “spell out” an “iconography of the political in action”.
Bilder der Liebe
Der Liebesdiskurs der Frühen Neuzeit nimmt eine wichtige Position in zahlreichen literarischen und künstlerischen Werken ein. Dabei werden zentrale Fragestellungen der Gesellschaft verhandelt: das Verhältnis zwischen den Geschlechtern, zwischen Privatem und Öffentlichem und zwischen den gesellschaftlichen Institutionen. Für die vielfältigen Liebesmodelle - wie zum Beispiel Ehe, Konkubinat und homoerotische Beziehungen - lassen sich differenzierte künstlerische Repräsentationsformen finden. Die Beiträge in diesem Band zeigen: Illegitimes Begehren wird mitunter in ambivalenten Ikonographien verborgen und kann zwischen mehreren Bedeutungshorizonten oszillieren.
Das Entgegenkommende Denken
Something in the world tears away, jumps out, approaches ... A world that approaches is a world that is alive and vivid. This applies not only to the existing natural world, but also to what humans create, which, in form the form of artifacts – from the hand-held ax to linguistic theory – also approaches design in terms of both object and challenge. The authors of this volume attempt to track the movements of thought between form and form process, image and image file, representation and presence in terms of both theory and practice.
