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Sculpture was no occupation for a lady in Victorian Britain. Yet between 1837 and 1901 the number of professional female sculptors increased sixteen-fold. The four principal women sculptors of that era are the focus of this book. Once known for successful careers marked...
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Émile Verhaeren (1855–1916), art critic, poet and homme de lettres, was a man whose vision transcended his native Belgium. With close ties to Mallarmé in France and Rilke in Germany, Verhaeren, a peripatetic student of the arts, readily traveled to Paris, Berlin,...
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This book explores interaction and competition between painting and literature in France, from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth, offering new readings of works by key figures including Paul Gauguin, Stéphane Mallarmé, Pablo Picasso and André Gide....
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Das Arbeiten in Kollektiven ist in der Gegenwartskunst zur Selbstverständlichkeit geworden. Werke und Projekte sind häufig Ergebnis von Verhandlungen und dem Zusammenspiel zahlreicher Akteure. Die Kunstgeschichte ist weiterhin dominiert vom Einzelkünstler und seinem...
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Giorgio Vasari’s Prefaces: Art and Theory provides students and scholars alike with the opportunity to study and understand the art, theory, and visual culture ofGiorgio Vasari and sixteenth century Italy. For the first time all of Vasari’s Prefaces from the Lives of...
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This book views Jacques-Louis David’s pre-Revolutionary Oath of the Horatii as the realization of political and cultural gender struggle and goes back to antiquity and to Pierre Corneille’s seventeenth-century play Horace to trace major antecedents of David’s work. The...
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Die Studie widmet sich Lea Grundig (1906-1977) als Präsidentin des Verbandes der Bildenden Künstler Deutschlands (VBKD) von 1964 bis 1970. Nach Inhaftierung und Verfolgung während der NS-Diktatur flüchtete Grundig 1940 nach Palästina und kehrte 1949 nach Deutschland...
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Although the association between architecture and utopia (the relationship between imagining a new world and exploring how its new conditions can best be organized) might appear obvious from within the domain of utopian studies, architects have long attempted to...
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Materials may seem to be sculpture’s most obvious aspect. Traditionally seen as a means to an end, and frequently studied in terms of technical procedures, their intrinsic meaning often remains unquestioned. Yet materials comprise a field rich in meaning, bringing into...
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Die ‘Frühe Neuzeit’ ist eine Reflexionsepoche der Moderne. Besonders in den letzten Jahrzehnten variieren Zeitdiagnosen das Konzept der ‘Wiederkehr’ von historischen Phasen der Vormoderne, um die Gegenwart im Licht der Vergangenheit zu erkennen, um etablierte...
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At the beginning of the 20th century, the discovery of early cultures exerted a formative influence on modern architecture. Discussions on early civilizations in the Middle East, South-East Asia, and the pre-Columbian cultures of North and South America as well as new...
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Dieses Buch widmet sich einer bisher in der Minnesangforschung nur wenig behandelten Gattung: dem dialogischen Lied. Während die Minnekanzone die Stimme des Sängers als Minnendem privilegiert und die besungene Dame darin zum Schweigen verdammt, präsentiert das...
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This book explores the social history of contemporary Italian art with a focus on its relation to theories of national identity, cultural inheritance, and baroque historiography. Its scope encompasses Fascism’s involvement in the visual arts in the first half of the...
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No century in modern European history has built monuments with more enthusiasm than the 19th. Of the hundreds of monuments erected, those which sprang from a nation-wide initiative and addressed themselves to a nation, rather than part of a nation, we may call national...
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This book offers an innovative approach to the altarpieces of Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770) by discussing them within the intellectual context of the first half of the eighteenth century. Tiepolo occupies a particular position in the history of art: firmly embedded...
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) schuf seine Kunstwerke in einer Zeit, in der die konzeptistische Poetik (concettismo) das ultimative Regelwerk moderner Dichtung darstellte. In dieser Studie wird die Rhetorizität der KunstwerkeGian Lorenzo Berninis vor dem Hintergrund...
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The twenty-four essays in Rewriting Texts Remaking Images: Interdisciplinary Perspectives examine the complex relationships between original creative works and subsequent versions of these originals, from both theoretical and pragmatic perspectives.The process involves...
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Nomadic Narratives, Visual Forces explores issues, questions, and problems emerging in the analysis of epistolary and visual narratives. This book focuses in particular on Gwen John’s letters and paintings. It offers an innovative theoretical approach to narrative...
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The cult of St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgin Martyrs of Cologne was the most widespread relic cult in medieval Europe.The sheer abundance of relics of the Eleven Thousand Virgins, which allowed for the display of immense collections, shaped the notion of...
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The near-militant voluntarism of the active players in cultural mediation engenders certain expectations: after a large investment in cultural creation is it not justifiable to aspire to reach the largest possible audience? Nine researchers from France, Québec and...
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