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China and the West
With contributions from outstanding specialists in glass art and East Asian art history, this edited volume opens a cross-cultural dialogue on the hitherto little-studied medium of Chinese reverse glass painting. The first major survey of this form of East Asian art, the volume traces its long history, its local and global diffusion, and its artistic and technical characteristics. Manufactured for export to Europe and for local consumption within China, the fragile artworks studied in this volume constitute a paramount part of Chinese visual culture and attest to the intensive cultural and artistic exchange between China and the West.
Glass in Architecture from the Pre- to the Post-Industrial Era
Glass is one of the most fascinating and versatile building materials in architectural history. The new insights into glass in architecture are the result of research at the intersection of glass production, construction technology and building culture. Coming from a variety of disciplines, the contributions bridge the divide between natural sciences, humanities and the preservation and restoration of cultural heritage. They explore the crucial role of flat glass in shaping architecture, particularly since the 18th century, and discuss the in-situ restoration of historic windows and glass façades and the importance of preserving this fragile heritage. The topics range from the manufacture o...
Entangled Landscapes
The exchange of landscape practice between China and Europe from 1500–1800 is an important chapter in art history. While the material forms of the outcome of this exchange, like jardin anglo-chinoisand Européenerie are well documented, this book moves further to examine the role of the exchange in identity formation in early modern China and Europe. Proposing the new paradigm of “entangled landscapes”, drawing from the concept of “entangled histories”, this book looks at landscape design, cartography, literature, philosophy and material culture of the period. Challenging simplistic, binary treatments of the movements of “influences” between China and Europe, Entangled Landscapes reveals how landscape exchanges entailed complex processes of appropriation, crossover and transformation, through which Chinese and European identities were formed. Exploring these complex processes via three themes—empire building, mediators’ constraints, and aesthetic negotiations, this work breaks new ground in landscape and East-West studies. Interdisciplinary and revisionist in its thrust, it will also benefit scholars of history, human geography and postcolonial studies.
When Life Lives Itself
Teaching is much more than transmitting knowledge. School life, alongside the togetherness in families, holds a key position in society. It is the school, where our future adults grow into the culture in which they actually live. What a task for those in charge! What a challenge! And most of all: what a chance! The book addresses those who shape coexistence in schools and those in administrations and governments who set the formal course for it, and it addresses creative minds. School case studies and a compact history of the origins of human togetherness stimulate reflection.
Kunst gegen das Verschwinden
Im Jahr 1989 kuratierte die Fotografin Nan Goldin im New Yorker Artists Space mit Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing die erste Gruppenausstellung zum Thema AIDS, in der unter anderem Fotografien von Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Peter Hujar, Mark Morrisroe und David Wojnarowicz gezeigt wurden. Ausgehend von diesen fotografischen Repräsentationen untersucht die Studie die künstlerische Deutungshoheit von AIDS. Denn künstlerische Auseinandersetzungen mit der Epidemie wurden mit politischen und moralischen Bedeutungen aufgeladen und als Machtinstrumente im Kampf für die gesellschaftliche Sichtbarkeit von AIDS eingesetzt. Anhand der Analyse der Ausstellung und sechs Interviews mit New Yorker Künstler/innen und Kuratoren werden neue Erkenntnisse zur künstlerischen, sozialen und politischen Bedeutung von Kunst über AIDS in den USA der späten 1980er Jahre vermittelt.
Das Museum Rietberg Zürich und Elsy Leuzinger
Unter Elsy Leuzingers Leitung wurde das Museum Rietberg Zürich zu einer komplexen und international verknüpften Institution, die Sammlung konnte dank bedeutender Donatoren und ausgewählter Ankäufe beträchtlich erweitert werden. Darüber hinaus aktivierte Leuzinger die Rietberg-Gesellschaft, begründete die ICOM Schweiz mit und etablierte zeitgleich die Kunstgeschichte Ostasiens an der Universität Zürich. Dieser Band gibt neue Einblicke in das Schaffen der Zürcher Pionierin, indem er Quellen verschiedener Archive erstmals auswertet. Heidi Tacier-Eugster zeichnet nach, wie Elsy Leuzinger zur Kunstethnologin wurde und die Sammlungsobjekte wissenschaftlich bearbeitete. Dabei beleuchtet die Autorin die europäische und schweizerische Wissens- und Kulturgeschichte ebenso wie die Stellung der Frau im 20. Jahrhundert.
Rosetsu
Accompanying a major exhibition on the 18th-century Japanese painter Nagasawa Rosetsu, this book features the artist's most important paintings. Born into the family of a low-ranking samurai, Nagasawa Rosetsu (1754-1799) is renowned today as one of the most imaginative artists of early modern Japan. His visually stunning and highly idiosyncratic paintings earned him a place in Japan's "Lineage of Eccentrics." This book surveys Rosetsu's art with sixty of his most important paintings, beginning with his earliest works in the realist mode of his teacher Maruyama Okyo, and ending with his haunting, visionary, and occasionally bizarre final masterpieces. Screen paintings, scrolls, and albums depicting Zen eccentrics, raucous children, ethereal beauties, otherworldly landscapes, and vivacious animals and birds take viewers on a journey through Rosetsu's own travels and into his unbridled imagination.
Quantitative Economic History
This volume reflects the progress made in the last decade in quantitative economic history with major improvements in the quality of analysis and the amassing of research findings. A wide range of topics are disseminated, falling into four main areas: labor and industrial economics, as well as money and macroeconomics.
Rethinking Art History
A general overview of the theoretical and institutional history of the discipline of art history. Refuting the image of art history as a discipline in crisis, Preziosi asserts that many of the dilemmas and contradictions of art history today are not new but can be traced back to problems surrounding the founding of the discipline, its institutionalization, and its academic expansion since the 1870s. "Donald Preziosi has written a timely and incisive study of the methods and assumptions of art history in the modern period. As the book unfolds, one realizes that art history was never as unitary and monolithic as the phrase 'the discipline of art history' suggests, but is in fact a complicated ...
The Itineraries of Art
Ð15∫ðWhile recent scholarship dealt with the economic and political historio-graphies of road systems, this book focuses on routes as stimuli of cultural transfer and artistic production. Framed in the historiography of longue dur∞♭e, routes may be addressed as trajectories that cut across cultural geographies and periodizations. With focus on the early modern period, the volume foregrounds an unprecedented expansion and transformation of route-networks. New combinations of transcontinental routes profoundly affected cultural topographies and symbolic paradigms. The rise of Asian and European port cities as nodes of maritime systems and prosperous cultural contact zones is closely li...
