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Elective Affinities
This volume presents the impressive range of scholarly affinities, approaches, and subjects that characterize today's word and image studies. The essays were first presented in 2005 at an international conference.
Art History and Visual Studies in Europe
Reflection on the history and practice of art history has long been a major topic of research and scholarship, and this volume builds on this tradition by offering a critical survey of many of the major developments in the contemporary discipline, such as the impact of digital technologies, the rise of visual studies or new initiatives in conservation theory and practice. Alongside these methodological issues this book addresses the mostly neglected question of the impact of national contexts on the development of the discipline. Taking a wide range of case studies, this book examines the impact of the specific national political, institutional and ideological demands on the practice of art history. The result is an account that both draws out common features and also highlights the differences and the plurality of practices that together constitute art history as a discipline.
Photo Archives and the Idea of Nation
Das "lange 19. Jahrhundert" der Nationalstaatenbildung ist auch das Jahrhundert der "Erfindung" der Fotografie wie auch der Geburt der modernen Archivwissenschaften. Die Fotografie wurde bald von den Nationalstaaten in ihrem Bedürfnis nach bildlicher Visualisierung in den Dienst genommen. Nach dem II. Weltkrieg, dem Zerfall der kolonialistischen Systeme und schließlich dem Fall der Berliner Mauer erlangten nationale Fragen erneut Aktualität - nun in einem globalen Rahmen. Die Beiträge in diesem Band untersuchen den Zusammenhang zwischen Fotografie/Fotoarchiven und der Idee der Nation, wobei das Objektiv sich nicht auf einzelne Ikonen, sondern auf die weitreichende Dimension des Archivs richtet.
History Painting Crossing Borders, A Transnational History of Modern Art in Early Twentieth-Century China and Japan
If the goal of art history is to elucidate the politics of difference, does it matter when artworks look alike? How do we account for historical connections across regions—in particular, East Asia—if works are viewed from a purely nationalistic perspective? History painting is typically interpreted within nationalist frameworks; History Painting Crossing Borders instead asks a series of provocative questions about the meaning and purpose of art and interpretation. Weaving together a diverse range of materials in Chinese, Japanese, and French, Stephanie Su showcases a transnational history of modern art in East Asia by centering two pioneering artists in Japan and China, Nakamura Fusetsu ...
Contemporary Art from Cyprus
To what extent does locality influence contemporary art? Can any particular artistic practices be defined as uniquely Cypriot? And does art from Cyprus transcend Western boundaries once it enters the global art scene? This volume uses Cyprus as a case study for the exploration of notions of identity, regionalism, and the global and local in contemporary art practice; it is not, therefore, a complete historiography of contemporary Cypriot art. Rather, this critical text provides a theoretical and historical framework that frames and contextualizes art practices from Cyprus, while always relating these back to the international art world. Numerous current and pressing issues-all relevant beyon...
Dictatorship in the Nineteenth Century
Historical research on modern dictatorship has often neglected the relevance of the nineteenth century, instead focusing on twentieth-century dictatorial rules. Dictatorship in the Nineteenth Century brings together scholars of political thought, the history of ideas and gender studies in order to address this oversight. Political dictatorship is often assumed to be a twentieth-century phenomenon, but the notion gained currency during the French Revolution. The Napoleonic experience underscored this trend, which was later maintained during the wars of independence in Latin America. Starting from the assumption that dictatorship has its own history within the nineteenth century, separate from the ancient Roman paradigm and twentieth-century totalitarianism, this volume aims at establishing a dialogue between the concepts of dictatorship and the experiences and transfer of knowledge between Latin America and Europe during this period. This book is essential reading for scholars and students of modern history, as well as those interested in political history and the history of dictatorship.
Memory & Oblivion
This intriguing volume contains 133 papers and lectures from the September 1996 international congress--most in English, but several in French or German (often those with the most intriguing illustrations). Contributors from prestigious universities around the world cover topics such as Eurocentrism and the historiography of art; lessons to be learned from Fondo Cicognara (1767-1834) and his collection of art books at the Vatican Library; changes in artwriting as demonstrated in Artforum; new issues in Mexican art history; postponed tombs for Galileo and Machiavelli; the "monumentomania" of the 19th century; the empty throne in early Buddhist art and its sacred memory left behind after the emergence of the Buddha ornament as veneration in ancient Pueblo art; graffiti as a medium for memoria in the early and high Middle Ages; Michelangelo's graphic recollection; teachers and students in 19th-century France; Manet and the origins of modernist painting; Paul Klee's memory in exi the case of Latvian art between 1940-1990 and after; and pop art and the forgotten codes of camp. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Modern French Visual Theory
Offers approachable, clear and original accounts of French thinkers who specialise in visual theory, with connections explained and explicated between chapters; looks at those thinkers who have been neglected in the Anglo-American world thereby expanding and diversifying the perception that readers have
