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What Will Be Already Exists: Temporalities of Cold War Archives in East-Centr…
How do artist archives survive and stay authentic in radically changed contexts? The volume addresses the challenge of continuity, sustainability, and institutionalization of archives established by Eastern European artists. At its center stands the 40th anniversary of the Artpool Art Research Center founded in 1979 in Budapest as an underground institution based on György Galántai's »Active…
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- 9783839458235
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- 351.71
Beyond the Mirror: Seeing in Art History and Visual Culture Studies
Since the late 1980s visibility has become a currency of social recognition, and a political issue. It also brought forth a new discipline, visual culture studies, and a hotly contested debate unfolded between art history and visual culture studies over the interpretation of visual culture, whose impact can still be felt today. In this first comparative study Susanne von Falkenhausen reveals th…
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- 9783839453520
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- 709 FAL b
The Reception of the Printed Image in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: …
This book examines the early development of the graphic arts from the perspectives of material things, human actors and immaterial representations while broadening the geographic field of inquiry to Central Europe and the British Isles and considering the reception of the prints on other continents.The role of human actors proves particularly prominent, i.e. the circumstances that informed crea…
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- 9781000173024
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- 741 REC r
Language Between God And The Poets
How does language work? How does language produce truth and beauty? Eleventh-century Arabic scholarship has detailed answers to these universal questions. Language Between God and the Poets reads the theory of four major scholars and asks how the conceptual vocabulary they shared enabled them to create theory in lexicography, theology, logic, and poetics. Their ideas engaged God and poetry at t…
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- 9780520970144
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Decolonizing Colonial Heritage: New Agendas, Actors and Practices in and beyo…
Decolonizing Colonial Heritage explores how different agents practice the decolonization of European colonial heritage at European and extra-European locations. Assessing the impact of these practices, the book also explores what a new vision of Europe in the postcolonial present could look like. Including contributions from academics, artists and heritage practitioners, the volume explores …
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- 9781000473605
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Contemporary Art in Heritage Spaces
Contemporary Art in Heritage Spaces considers the challenges that accompany an assessment of the role of contemporary art in heritage contexts, whilst also examining ways to measure and articulate the impact and value of these intersections in the future. Presenting a variety of perspectives from a broad range of creative and cultural industries, this book examines case studies from the past de…
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- 9780429624827
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- 701 CON c
Cities' Identity Through Architecture and Arts: Proceedings of the Internatio…
Every city has its unique and valuable identity, this identity is revealed through its physical and visual form, it is seen through the eyes of its residents and users. The city develops over time, and its identity evolves with it. Reflecting the rapid and constant changes the city is subjected to, Architecture and Arts, is the embodiment of the cultural, historical, and economical characterist…
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- 9781315166551
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The Visible World
How did painters and their public speak about art in Rembrandt's age? This book about the writings of the painter-poet Samuel van Hoogstraten, one of Rembrandt's pupils, examines a wide variety of themes from painting practice and theory from the Dutch Golden Age. It addresses the contested issue of 'Dutch realism' and its hidden symbolism, as well as Rembrandt's concern with representing emoti…
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- 9789089640277
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- 750 WES w
The Universal Art of Samuel van Hoogstraten (1627-1678)
The one connecting factor in the different chapters in this book is obviously Van Hoogstraten himself: there was a single personality – although our knowledge of it may be shifting with each new historiographical focus – that linked art, literature, and scholarship during a foundational era of Dutch cultural history. Even though getting to know the ‘real’ Samuel van Hoogstraten may be b…
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- 9789089645234
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Was ist Public Interest Design? Beiträge zur Gestaltung öffentlicher Intere…
Das Designfeld ist im Umbruch. Sowohl die Theorie als auch die Praxis suchen 'neue' Betätigungsfelder und streben nach einem anderen Selbstverständnis.
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