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Art, Exhibition and Erasure in Nazi Vienna
This book examines three exhibitions of contemporary art held at the Vienna Künstlerhaus during the period of National Socialist rule and shows how each attempted to culturally erase elements anathema to Nazi ideology: the City, the Jewess and fin-de-siècle Vienna. Each of the exhibits was large scale and ambitious, part of a broader attempt to situate Vienna as the cultural capital of the Reich, and each aimed to reshape cultural memory and rewrite history. Applying illuminating theories on memory studies, collective and public memory, and notions of "memoricide," this is the first book in English to focus on visual culture in the period when Austria was erased as a nation and incorporated into the Third Reich as "Ostmark." The organization, content and publications surrounding these three exhibits are explored in depth and set against the larger political changes and dangerous ideologies they reflect. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, museum studies, cultural history, memory studies, art and politics and Holocaust studies.
The Painting of Modern Life
Text by Ralph Rugoff, Kaja Silverman, Barry Schwabsky, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Martin Herbert.
Poetics of Repair
Today, most colonial-era modernist mass housing is seen as fundamentally broken: crumbling concrete spaces of social alienation and containment that fractured societies both then and now. In Poetics of Repair, Katarzyna Pieprzak examines how contemporary visual, literary, and performance art of the Maghreb has the potential to change the terms, histories, and imagined futures of mass housing in North Africa and France. Pieprzak dives deeply into contemporary art engagements with three mass housing sites that epitomize the French colonial geography of modernist architecture in the Maghreb. She identifies in this art what she names a transformative “poetics of repair”: a practice that conj...
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40. Symposium zur Geschichte Millstatts und Kärntens
Die Ergebnisse des 40. Symposiums zur Geschichte Millstatts und Kärntens spiegeln die reiche und wechselvolle Kulturgeschichte dieser Region. Die Autorinnen und Autoren widmen sich ihr aus den Perspektiven der Landschafts-, Architektur- und Kunstgeschichte, Kodikologie und Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Sie diskutieren, ob die Ortenburg (bei Spittal) die größte Burg Kärntens gewesen ist, und zeichnen den Weg illuminierter Handschriften aus Italien nach Millstatt nach, als Beispiel für die internationale spätmittelalterliche Buchkultur. Sie zeigen, wie anhand Millstätter Handschriftenfragmente prominente Texte identifiziert werden konnten, was neue Fragen zum Bücherkanon der Klöster aufwirft. Einblicke in die Wissenschaftsgeschichte um 1900 eröffnet ein Briefwechsel des Anthropologen Felix von Luschan mit dem Prähistoriker Carlo de Marchesetti. Nah an den Debatten des Hier und Heute ist zudem die Auswertung einer Porträtsammlung Felix von Luschans, die eine Neubewertung der damaligen anthropologischen Porträtphotographie fremder Kulturen erlaubt.
Photographic Travel Books
Since early in its history, photography has been used by a diversity of travellers, whose collected photographs have been compiled into albums. But Photographic Travel as a genre of art did not appear before the second half of the twentieth century, and had a singular fate and fortune in the US as well as in Europe. The initial objective of some itinerant photographers is to make a book; their shooting practice is conditioned by this objective, as well as their travel experience. Their books – designed as one coherent hole – refer to their wandering experience, even though their stories are never completely free from fiction. In these books, their travels are converged, and their subjectivity is revealed. It is therefore relevant to call such books made of photographies, and possibly words about the travel experience, Photographic Travel books (comparably to Travel books). Danièle Méaux has tackled the task of characterizing this genre.
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