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The Matter of Piety = Zoutleeuw's Church of Saint Leonard and Religious Mater…
The Matter of Piety provides the first in-depth study of Zoutleeuw’s exceptionally well-preserved pilgrimage church in a comparative perspective, and revaluates religious art and material culture in Netherlandish piety from the late Middle Ages through the crisis of iconoclasm and the Reformation to Catholic restoration. Analyzing the changing functions, outlooks, and meanings of devotional o…
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- 9789004433106
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- 452 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History, Volume: 16
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The Matter of Mimesis = Studies of Mimesis and Materials in Nature, Art, and …
Mimesis or imitation comes in many forms, from animal and plant mimicry to artistic copies ‘from life’. This book offers eighteen essays addressing mimesis from diverse perspectives. From the recreation of galaxies to Iron Age torcs, from counterfeit dragons to modern waxworks, each chapter explores facets of material mimesis from prehistory to the present day. The Matter of Mimesis invites…
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- 9789004515413
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- 596 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Studies in Art & Materiality
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The Library of Aḥmad Pasha al-Jazzār = Book Culture in Late Ottoman Palestine
This study is the first to examine the history and composition of the library of Aḥmad Pasha al-Jazzār (d. 1804), the famous governor of northern Palestine in the late eighteenth century, on the basis of the inventory of the library’s holdings. The chapters in the first volume situate the library, one of the largest in Palestinian history prior to the end of the nineteenth century, in its …
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- 9789004720527
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- 640 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Islamic History and Civilization
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New Music and Institutional Critique
While institutional critique has long been an important part of artistic practice and theoretical debate in the visual arts, it has long escaped attention in the field of music. This open access volume assembles for the first time an array of theoretical approaches and practical examples dealing with New Music’s institutions, their critique, and their transformations. For scholars, leaders, a…
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- 9783662671313
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- XIV, 205 ill; hlm
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Das Nachleben der Künste = Von Kunst und Künsten zu Materialien und Orten
Die künstlerische Produktion der Gegenwart ist äußerst divers und kaum mehr auf klare Kategorien festlegbar. Es ist eine geläufige Diagnose, dass sich Disziplinengrenzen auflösen und dass letztlich alles in einer Kunst im Singular aufgeht. Das Buch vertritt die These, dass bei allen Überschreitungs- und Hybridisierungsbewegungen disziplinäre Logiken weiterhin bedeutsam sind und dass die …
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- 9783662687833
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- VIII, 207 ill; hlm
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Insects and Colors between Art and Natural History
This book explores how European naturalists and artists perceived, investigated, and presented the relationship between insects and colors from the late sixteenth to the late eighteenth century. The contributors to this volume examine the creative methods and strategies that were developed to record color-related information about insects through studies on Hoefnagel’s glazed metal and hand-c…
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- 978-90-04-68455-3
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- xviii, 322 pp
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- Emergence of Natural History, Volume: 7
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Imagining Chinese Medicine
A unique collection of 36 chapters on the history of Chinese medical illustrations, this volume will take the reader on a remarkable journey from the imaging of a classical medicine to instructional manuals for bone-setting, to advertising and comic books of the Yellow Emperor. In putting images, their power and their travels at the centre of the analysis, this volume reveals many new and excit…
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- 978-90-04-36618-3
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- xxii, 520 pp
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- Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, Volume: 18
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Ichthyology in Context (1500–1880)
Ichthyology in Context (1500–1880) provides a broad spectre of early modern manifestations of human fascination with fish – “fish” understood in the early modern sense of the term, as aquatilia: all aquatic animals, including sea mammals and crustaceans. It addresses the period’s quickly growing knowledge about fish in its multiple, varied and rapidly changing interaction with culture…
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- 978-90-04-68118-7
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- xxxiv, 742 pp
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- Intersections, Volume: 87
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Holy Ground: Where Art and Text Meet : Studies in the Cultural History of India
The 31 selected and revised articles in the volume Holy Ground: Where Art and Text Meet, written by Hans Bakker between 1986 and 2016, vary from theoretical subjects to historical essays on the classical culture of India. They combine two mainstreams: the Sanskrit textual tradition, including epigraphy, and the material culture as expressed in works of religious art and iconography. The study o…
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- 978-90-04-41207-1
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- xx, 700 pp
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- Gonda Indological Studies, Volume: 20
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Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516 : Study and Transcription of…
This open access book presents the first detailed study of one of the most important masterpieces of Renaissance cartography, Martin Waldseemüller’s Carta marina of 1516. By transcribing, translating into English, and detailing the sources of all of the descriptive texts on the map, as well as the sources of many of the images, the book makes the map available to scholars in a wholly unprece…
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- 9783030227036
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- VII, 150 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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