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Critical Cartography of Art and Visuality in the Global Age
Critical Cartography of Art and Visuality in the Global Age poses fundamental questions and pinpoints topical discussions central to the field of contemporary art studies in the global age. Resulting from a series of conversations that took place at the international conference ""Critical Cartography of Art and Visuality in the Global Age"" (Barcelona 2013), the volume brings together current debates in cultural and identity-based art histories as a means of expanding the territory of contempor...
The Exercise of the Spatial Imagination in Pre-Modern China
This volume is distinctive for its extraordinarily interdisciplinary investigations into a little discussed topic, the spatial imagination. It probes the exercise of the spatial imagination in pre-modern China across five general areas: pictorial representation, literary description, cartographic mappings, and the intertwining of heavenly and earthly space. It recommends that the spatial imagination in the pre-modern world cannot adequately be captured using a linear, militarily framed conceptualization. The scope and varying perspectives on the spatial imagination analyzed in the volume’s essays reveal a complex range of aspects that informs how space was designed and utilized. Due to the complexity and advanced scholarly level of the papers, the primary readership will be other scholars and advanced graduate students in history, history of science, geography, art history, religious studies, literature, and, broadly, sinology.
Cultural Turns
The contemporary fields of the study of culture, the humanities and the social sciences are unfolding in a dynamic constellation of cultural turns. This book provides a comprehensive overview of these theoretically and methodologically groundbreaking reorientations. It discusses the value of the new focuses and their analytical categories for the work of a wide range of disciplines. In addition to chapters on the interpretive, performative, reflexive, postcolonial, translational, spatial and iconic turns, it discusses emerging directions of research. Drawing on a wealth of international research, this book maps central topics and approaches in the study of culture and thus provides systematic impetus for changed disciplinary and transdisciplinary research in the humanities and beyond – e.g., in the fields of sociology, economics and the study of religion. This work is the English translation by Adam Blauhut of an influential German book that has now been completely revised. It is a stimulating example of a cross-cultural translation between different theoretical cultures and also the first critical synthesis of cultural turns in the English-speaking world.
Forensische Verfahren in den zeitgenössischen Künsten
Die Forschungsagentur Forensic Architecture untersucht Kriegsverbrechen und ökologische wie politische Krisen und bringt sie mit ihrer "Investigativen Ästhetik" (MACBA 2017) in den Ausstellungs- wie Gerichtssaal. Lisa Stuckey untersucht anhand der Figuration 'Law on Trial' – Gesetz und Recht vor Gericht, auf dem Prüfstand, zur Verhandlung –, weshalb ausgerechnet ästhetischen und poetischen forensischen Verfahren eine radikale Befragung sozialer Gerechtigkeit überantwortet wird. In punktuellen Exkursen vergleicht die Studie Strategeme von Forensic Architecture mit denen der Medienkünstlerin Constanze Ruhm und der Poetin M. NourbeSe Philip. Nachdem das Recht im 18. Jahrhundert zum "Modellfall für Wissenssysteme" (Vismann/Weitin 2006) geworden ist, steht das heutige buchstäbliche Auf-die-Probe-Stellen von Recht im Zusammenhang mit einer neuen Dimension der Aufdeckung, die an die Institutionskritik der 1990er Jahre anschließt und zu einem Funktionswandel der Künste führt, in denen forensische Verfahren Konjunktur haben. Veröffentlichung mit Unterstützung des Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures
Stereotypes often cast communism as a defunct, bankrupt ideology and a relic of the distant past. However, recent political movements like Europe's anti-austerity protests, the Arab Spring, and Occupy Wall Street suggest that communism is still very much relevant and may even hold the key to a new, idealized future. In The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures, contributors trace the legacies of communist ideology in visual culture, from buildings and monuments, murals and sculpture, to recycling campaigns and wall newspapers, all of which work to make communism's ideas and values material. Contributors work to resist the widespread demonization of communism, demystifying its ideals a...
Turns of the Global, The
When we talk about the geographical, ecological, ethnographic, historical, documentary, and cosmopolitan “turns” in relation to the work of practitioners of contempory art, what exactly do we mean? Are we talking about a “reading strategy”? About an interpretive model, as would be derived from the linguistic turn of the 1970s, or rather about a stratigraphic structure that could be read across multiple cultural practices? Do we wish to read one system by means of another system, in a way that one nurtures the other so that it can open us up to other forms of being? Or is it rather about a generative movement in which a new horizon emerges in the process, leaving behind the practice t...
Ewa Partum's Artistic Practice
Polish-born artist Ewa Partum is considered a pioneer of Central-Eastern European feminist art produced within the conceptual idiom. Her work can also be divided chronologically into Polish (1965-82), West Berlin (1982-1989) and transnational (from 1989) periods. Karolina Majewska-Güde articulates the historical alterity of Ewa Partum's works in their various locations and the specificity of the positions from which Partum's art was interpreted and disseminated. At the same time, the book engages with the art histories of the Central and Eastern European neo-avant-gardes focusing on the issue of narrative strategies of CEE art history.
Territorien und Grenzen in der Kunst
Die Grenzen in der Kunst: David Kaller widmet sich Territorien und Grenzen als Gegenstand in der zeitgenössischen Kunst. Er analysiert eine Auswahl an Werken, die sich auf unterschiedliche Phänomene territorialer Ordnungen beziehen. Diese reichen von Karten, Grenzen, Weltmeeren, Territorialkonflikten um Inselgruppen bis hin zur Bedeutung militärischer Drohnen für die Wahrnehmung territorialer Ordnungen. Die Perspektive richtet sich dabei immer auf zwei Ebenen: Welchen Begriff des Territoriums im Sinne eines raumpolitischen Machtgefüges führen die Werke vor? Und wie werden für den Betrachter territoriale Ordnungen in eine ästhetische Sichtbarkeit überführt?
El Club de Joves (1965-1976)
El Club de Joves fou profitós per a Tarragona i s’incardinà positivament en la vida local de què formà part, ara bé, a despit d’això, l’inexorable pas del temps l’ha semiesborrat de la memòria col·lectiva, fins al punt que avui en dia el seu nom no diu res a la majoria de tarragonins, especialment als no el conegueren. Alguns dels exjoves de cos, que no pas d’esperit, que van promoure l’entitat com l’Àngel Conesa o l’Emili Guillamet, eren conscients que el seu oblit comportava la pèrdua d’un capítol de la història contemporània de la ciutat i decidiren impulsar la seva recuperació, iniciant la recopilació i sistematització de materials, testimonis i records ...
