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Clothing and Identity in Early Modern Rome
This is the first book-length exploration of the clothes worn in early modern Rome and provides novel insights into the city of Rome during one of its most fascinating periods. It also challenges the notion well-established in dress historical research on the early modern period that one was supposed to dress solely according to one's social station; as Camilla Annerfeldt explores in great depth, this notion does not always seem to have been applicable to early modern Rome because of its very constitution. Using a range of primary sources from the Roman archives as well as texts of early modern writers, Clothing and Identity in Early Modern Rome presents a vivid account of the history of an early modern society, which will be helpful to historians of fashion, society, politics, material culture, and art, as well as everyone interested in the period when Rome was one of the dominant centres of Europe culturally, socially, and politically.
Voices and Places
This dissertation challenges the conventional narrative of Danish colonial history by critiquing the predominant reliance on textual records and archives as primary carriers of historical knowledge. Through case studies focused on landscape and landscaping practices, it offers an alternative approach to understanding the past by actively engaging with material heritage in what is conceptualized as a vibrant archive. Utilizing interdisciplinary and practice-led methodologies, from cultural and memory studies to ecocriticism, the research examines and engages with colonial history through case studies in dialog with contemporary interlocutors. Emphasizing the dynamic nature of landscapes as vi...
Maarten van Heemskerck’s Rome
This book presents the first sustained study of the stunning drawings of Roman ruins by Haarlem artist Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574; in Rome, 1532–ca. 1537). In three parts, Arthur J. DiFuria describes Van Heemskerck’s pre-Roman training, his time in Rome, and his use his ruinscapes for the art he made during his forty-year post-Roman phase. Building on the methods of his predecessors, Van Heemskerck mastered a dazzling array of methods to portray Rome in compelling fashion. Upon his return home, his Roman drawings sustained him for the duration of his prolific career. Maarten van Heemskerck’s Rome concludes with the first ever catalog to bring together all of Van Heemskerck’s ruin drawings in state-of-the-art digital photography.
Artistic Reconfigurations of Rome
Introduction: International artists in Rome -- Institutions: Making the Foreign Academies in Rome -- Sites: Negotiating the Spectacle of Rome -- People: Portraying the Romans -- History: Re-envisioning Roman Narratives -- Art: Creating a Rome of One's Own.
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Villes en ruine
Dans la mythologie gréco-latine comme dans la tradition judéo-chrétienne, les hommes ont subi des bouleversements qui les ont dépassés et dont les villes ont souvent constitué le théâtre, de l'Atlantide à Troie, de Sodome et Gomorrhe jusqu'au monde dévasté par les cavaliers de l'Apocalypse. C'est que l'histoire de nos villes est jalonnée d'événements traumatiques et de destructions, qu'il s'agisse de désastres naturels comme les tremblements de terre, les inondations, les éruptions volcaniques, ou bien de dévastations causées par l'homme, tels les guerres et les incendies. 0Ainsi les villes sont-elles le plus souvent des palimpsestes bâtis sur les ruines de mondes révolus. Selon les cas, les fragments, débris et décombres subsistants sont valorisés ou relégués, exaltés ou délaissés, remployés ou oubliés ; pour autant, ils ne cessent de marquer la culture matérielle et immatérielle, de susciter rêveries et fantasmes. On ne saurait donc s'étonner de la place que l'histoire de l'art occidental a accordée aux représentations des catastrophes, où les villes constituent bien souvent l'une des scènes privilégiées de la manifestation du désastre.0
Ocean
A visual voyage through the enigmatic ocean, where science meets art and where myth meets reality We know more about the surface of Mars than we do about our planet's oceans. And yet the ocean remains an alluring prospect to humanity: as an artistic icon, an object of scientific inquiry or even a financial resource. Encompassing art, film, literature, archeology and natural history, Oceanis a journey of discovery above and below the surface. Offering a cross section of art and cultural history, the exhibition and catalog are arranged into three themes: the ocean between art and science; the mythological ocean; and the Anthropocene ocean. From the woodblock prints of Utagawa Kuniyoshi to Jean Painlevé's photographs of aquatic life and Susan Hiller's mapping of sea coasts, Oceanoffers a mosaic view of this infinite yet imperiled source of life. Artists include:John Akomfrah, Anna Atkins, Jeanette Ehlers, Caspar David Friedrich, Susan Hiller, Pierre Huyghe, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Jean Painlevé, Howardena Pindell, August Strindberg, Wolfgang Tillmans, Francesca Woodman.
Basquiat: Headstrong
Using the head as a site of investigation, Basquiat's frenetic drawings of faces are at once immediate and contemplative Between 1981 and 1983, Jean-Michel Basquiat made between 50 and 100 drawings of heads. Working with oil stick on paper, he created a series far removed from his public paintings and collages filled with words and symbols--a more concentrated, private study whose pieces are rarely exhibited and seldom offered for sale. Stripped of external references, they read as intimate meditations on identity, perception and the fragile balance between presence and disappearance. Bringing this exceptional group together for the first time in decades in an oversize folio, Headstrongsheds...
