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The Invention of ›Outsider Art‹
What does it mean to be called an ›Outsider‹? Marion Scherr investigates structural inequalities and the myth of the Other in Western art history, examining the role of ›Outsider Art‹ in contemporary art worlds in the UK. By shifting the focus from art world professionals to those labelled ›Outsider Artists‹, she counteracts one-sided representations of them being otherworldly, raw, and uninfluenced. Instead, the artists are introduced as multi-faceted individuals in constant exchange with their social environment, employing diverse strategies in dealing with their exclusion. The book reframes their voices and artworks as complex, serious and meaningful cultural contributions, and challenges their attested Otherness in favour of a more inclusive, all-encompassing understanding of art.
Villa Sovietica
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Mirrors of Passing
Without exception, all people are faced with the inevitability of death, a stark fact that has immeasurably shaped societies and individual consciousness for the whole of human history. Mirrors of Passing offers a powerful window into this oldest of human preoccupations by investigating the interrelationships of death, materiality, and temporality across far-flung times and places. Stretching as far back as Ancient Egypt and Greece and moving through present-day locales as diverse as Western Europe, Central Asia, and the Arctic, each of the richly illustrated essays collected here draw on a range of disciplinary insights to explore some of the most fundamental, universal questions that confront us.
Transcultural Montage
The disruptive power of montage has often been regarded as a threat to scholarly representations of the social world. This volume asserts the opposite: that the destabilization of commonsense perception is the very precondition for transcending social and cultural categories. The contributors—anthropologists, filmmakers, photographers, and curators—explore the use of montage as a heuristic tool for comparative analysis in anthropological writing, film, and exhibition making. Exploring phenomena such as human perception, memory, visuality, ritual, time, and globalization, they apply montage to restructure our basic understanding of social reality. Furthermore, as George E. Marcus suggests in the afterword, the power of montage that this volume exposes lies in its ability to open the very “combustion chamber” of social theory by juxtaposing one’s claims to knowledge with the path undertaken to arrive at those claims.
Krabbelkinder entdecken Gottes Welt
Für Jesus sind Kinder wichtig. Er hat sie lieb, schätzt sie wert und segnet sie. Dies soll in der Krabbelgruppe besonders zum Ausdruck kommen. Krabbelgruppen sind darum ein Gewinn für Kinder und Eltern, aber auch für die Gemeinde, weil sie zu einem Ort wird, an dem Menschen Gottes Liebe erleben. Wie Krabbelgruppen in die Gemeinde eingebunden werden können und was für die Planung und Durchführung von Programmen wichtig ist, erklären die Autorinnen beispielhaft in diesem Buch. 44 ausgearbeitete Stundenentwürfe helfen, die Wertschätzung Gottes an die Kinder verständlich weiterzugeben: Krabbellkinder entdecken – ihre Sinne – die Jahreszeiten – Geschichten aus dem Alten und Neuen Testament – Psalmengebete – besondere Feste. Einsatzmöglichkeiten: Für alle, die ein Herz für Krabbel- und Kleinkindern haben, sich mit ihnen beschäftigen und Gottes Wertschätzung an sie und ihre Eltern weitergeben möchten.
Objects and Imagination
Despite the wide interest in material culture, art, and aesthetics, few studies have considered them in light of the importance of the social imagination - the complex ways in which we conceptualize our social surroundings. This collection engages the “material turn” in the arts, humanities, and social sciences through a range of original contributions on creativity in diverse global and contemporary social settings. The authors engage with everyday objects, art, rituals, and ethnographic exhibitions to analyze the relationship between material culture and the social imagination. What results is a better understanding of how the material embodies and influences our idea of the social world.
Curatorial Challenges
Curatorial Challenges investigates the challenges faced by curators in contemporary society and explores which practices, ways of thinking, and types of knowledge production curating exhibitions could challenge. Bringing together international curators and researchers from the fields of art and cultural history, the book provides new research and perspectives on the curatorial process and aims to bridge the traditional gap between theoretical and academic museum studies and museum practices. The book focuses on exhibitions as a primary site of cultural exchange and argues that, as highly visible showcases, producers of knowledge, and historically embedded events, exhibitions establish and or...
Heike Müller
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