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Constructing the Image of Muhammad in Europe
thevolume represents a significant contribution to the complex history of the conceptualization and pictorialization of the Prophet Muhammad in the West. It gives a rapid and though deep overview of the history of the making of an image of the Prophet Muhammad in Europe and thus reflects the whole history of the making of the image of Islam in the Latin West, from the early medieval times till the 19th century. The book also provides the reader with ready access to the most recent scholarship concerning the image of Muhammad in Europe, in the form of comprehensive footnotes provided throughout the text and an extensive bibliography.
Highgate Cemetery
The famous Highgate Cemetery in London has stimulated people's imaginations for over 150 years. Accompanied by an introduction to the history of the cemetery, this book provides fourteen in-depth articles which describe and analyse the site of Highgate Cemetery and the practices and images that have been both linked to it and provoked by it. These articles highlight different aspects, including the cemetery's scenic and architectural setting, the use of religious signs and symbols on its gravestones, the interplay between its parkland environment and the representations of nature on its monuments, its past and contemporary social and religious meanings as well as its depictions in literature...
Grammatology of Images
Grammatology of Images radically alters how we approach images. Instead of asking for the history, power, or essence of images, Sigrid Weigel addresses imaging as such. The book considers how something a-visible gets transformed into an image. Weigel scrutinizes the moment of mis-en-apparition, of making an appearance, and the process of concealment that accompanies any imaging. Weigel reinterprets Derrida’s and Freud’s concept of the trace as that which must be thought before something exists. In doing so, she illuminates the threshold between traces and iconic images, between something immaterial and its pictorial representation. Chapters alternate between general accounts of the line, the index, the effigy, and the cult-image, and case studies from the history of science, art, politics, and religion, involving faces as indicators of emotion, caricatures as effigies of defamation, and angels as embodiments of transcendental ideas. Weigel’s approach to images illuminates fascinating, unexpected correspondences between premodern and contemporary image-practices, between the history of religion and the modern sciences, and between things that are and are not understood as art.
Mary, Mother of God
By clothing the Word with her flesh, the Virgin Mary made God visible, manifesting Christ as a perfect “image” of the Father. By virtue of this archetypal “artistry” of Incarnation, Mary mediates the tradition of Christian image-making. This volume explores images of the Mother of God in early modern devotion, piety, and power. The book is divided into four sections, the first three of which link the subjects thematically and geographically in Europe, while the last one follows Mary’s legacy. Contributors include: Elliott D. Wise, Anna Dlabačová, James Clifton, Kim Butler Wingfield, Barbara Baert, Steven Ostrow, Barbara Haeger, Shelley Perlove, Cristina Cruz González, and Mehreen Chida-Razvi.
Mixed Metaphors
This groundbreaking collection of essays by a host of international authorities addresses the many aspects of the Danse Macabre, a subject that has been too often overlooked in Anglo-American scholarship. The Danse was once a major motif that occurred in many different media and spread across Europe in the course of the fifteenth century, from France to England, Germany, Scandinavia, Poland, Spain, Italy and Istria. Yet the Danse is hard to define because it mixes metaphors, such as dance, di ...
Reading Śiva
An extensive, illustrated bibliography for the Hindu god Śiva in the arts of South and Southeast Asia, offering detailed indices and easy access to resource repositories.
Sultan Mehmet II
»Fatih - der Eroberer« lautet der klangvolle Beiname Mehmets II. (1430-1481), seit es ihm am 29. Mai 1453 gelang, Konstantinopel einzunehmen. Die Erschütterung der westlichen Welt war gewaltig, und noch heute wird das Ereignis als epochaler Wendepunkt gesehen. Dabei hatte Mehmet keineswegs die Zerstörung des byzantinischen Reiches im Sinn. Vielmehr beanspruchte er dessen Fortsetzung - freilich unter islamischen Vorzeichen. Das Engagement für die verschiedenen Künste, seien es Architektur, bildende Kunst oder Literatur, gehörte zum Selbstverständnis des mächtigen Herrschers. Auch die Wissenschaften, insbesondere die Ingenieurskunst und die Naturwissenschaften, lagen ihm am Herzen. Kaum etwas blieb unversucht, um Künstler und Gelehrte aus aller Welt an den Sultanshof nach Konstantinopel zu locken. Bereits zu Lebzeiten war die historische Gestalt Mehmets umstritten. Auch in heutiger Zeit dominiert der kriegerische Aspekt die Wahrnehmung des Osmanenherrschers. Mit diesem Band wird nun ein grundlegend neues Bild entworfen: Mehmet II. erscheint als maßgeblicher Förderer einer Renaissancekultur, die sich aus ganz unterschiedlichen Traditionen speist.
Highgate Cemetery
Der beruhmte in viktorianischer Zeit als Park gestaltete Friedhof von Highgate in London regt seit uber 150 Jahren die Imagination der Menschen an. Der Sammelband untersucht die Performativitat vergangener und gegenwartiger Bildpraktiken in und um Highgate im Kontext von Religion und Gesellschaft.
Terribly Beautiful. Elephant - Man - Ivory
A cultural history of ivory, from piano keys to poachers. Piano keys. Chess pieces. Jewelry. Ivory has been in high demand for centuries and across cultures--but at great cost to the elephants from which it comes. What sort of material is ivory? How has it been used in the past and the present? And what can we do today to protect the world's largest land mammals from poachers? This lavishly illustrated volume traces the cultural history of ivory as a decorative object and the cause of elephants' decades-long place on the endangered species list. The book approaches its subject critically and asks what exactly our responsibility is when dealing with ivory as a beautiful material with cruel origins. Terribly Beautiful is edited by the Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss, which is the owner of and operator of the Humboldt Forum, and will accompany the first exhibition of the newly opened museum. This volume contains contributions from archaeologists, anthropologists, art historians, and biologists.
