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Interiors and Interiority
Veranschaulichungsformen von Innerlichkeit finden in der Moderne in Darstellungen des Interieurs ihr prägnantes Bild. Die Beiträger der Publikation untersuchen die Verbindungen zwischen architektonischen Innenräumen, visuellen und literarischen Darstellungen von Interieurs und dem Konzept der Innerlichkeit vom 18. Jahrhundert bis heute. Jene Darstellungen sind Effekt, aber auch Produzenten spezifischer Vorstellungen von Innerlichkeit als einer, wenn nicht der subjektkonstituierenden Praxis der Moderne.
Caspar David Friedrich
Neue Sensibilität für die Natur Im Zentrum von Caspar David Friedrichs Werk steht ein neuer Blick auf Natur. Die Landschaftsgemälde und Zeichnungen des bedeutendsten Künstlers der deutschen Romantik brechen dabei mit tradierten Darstellungsmustern. Stattdessen verbindet sich in ihnen ein ungewöhnlich präzises Naturstudium mit einem durchgreifenden Willen zur Bildkomposition. Auf diese Weise bahnen Friedrichs Bilder einen neuen Weg, um über die ambivalente Wechselbeziehung zwischen Mensch und Natur nachzudenken. Sie machen erfahrbar, dass der Mensch Teil der Natur ist und ihr zugleich sehend und reflektierend gegenübertritt. Das Buch zur großen Friedrich-Retrospektive trägt dazu bei...
Outer Space and Popular Culture
This book provides detailed insights into how space and popular culture intersect across a broad spectrum of examples, including cinema, music, art, arcade games, cartoons, comics, and advertisements. This is a pertinent topic since the use of space themes differs in different cultural contexts, and these themes can be used to explore various aspects of the human condition and provide a context for social commentary on politically sensitive issues. With the use of space imagery evolving over the past sixty years of the space age, this is a topic ripe for in-depth exploration. The book also discusses the contrasting visions of space from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and t...
Poetic Critique
Poetic critique – is that not an oxymoron? Do these two forms of behavior, the poetic and the critical, not pull in different, even opposite, directions? For many scholars working in the humanities today, they largely do, but that has not always been the case. Friedrich Schlegel, for one, believed that critique worthy of its name must itself be poetic. Only then would it stand a chance of responding adequately to the work of art. Taking Schlegel’s idea of poetische Kritik as a starting point, this volume reflects on the possibility of drawing these alleged opposites closer together. In light of current debates about the legacy of critique, it investigates whether a concept such as poetic critique (or poetic criticism) lends itself to enriching our intellectual practice by engaging with the poetic potential of criticism and the critical value of art and literature.
Original - Copy - Fake?
English summary: It is not always easy to decide whether an object of art or an antiquity is authentic or not. On the one hand, there is a gradual transition from "improving" restoration to outright deceit. On the other hand, the methods applied in the production of fakes become ever more sophisticated so that fakes are sometimes incorporated even in respected and well-known collections. This situation is even more unfortunate as these collections represent points of reference for further stylistic investigations and comparisons. Bochum-based foundation Situation Kunst owns a substantial collection of West African art which has been the subject of controversial opinions concerning its authenticity. The questions posed in the title of this book gave rise to an exchange of positions and experiences between art historians, ethnologists, scientists and restorers at a meeting at Ruhr-University Bochum in February 2007. The results of this memorable symposium are collected in this volume.
Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics
In Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics, Lisa E. Bloom considers the ways artists, filmmakers, and activists engaged with the Arctic and Antarctic to represent our current environmental crises and reconstruct public understandings of them. Bloom engages feminist, Black, Indigenous, and non-Western perspectives to address the exigencies of the experience of the Anthropocene and its attendant ecosystem failures, rising sea levels, and climate-led migrations. As opposed to mainstream media depictions of climate change that feature apocalyptic spectacles of distant melting ice and desperate polar bears, artists such as Katja Aglert, Subhankar Banerjee, Joyce Campbell, Judit Hersko, Roni H...
Verweigerte Männlichkeit
In Zeiten der Debatten um »toxische Männlichkeit« scheint das Thema »verweigerte Männlichkeit« auf den ersten Blick randständig zu sein. Umso mehr erstaunt, dass es in der Literatur zahlreiche Figuren gibt, die den klassischen Heldendiskurs nicht bedienen und als Sonderlinge, Außenseiter oder Träumer von ihren Autoren konzipiert sind. Zwischen Rebellion und Melancholie schwankend entziehen sich die Männerfiguren den herrschenden Geschlechterdiskursen - oft um den Preis der eigenen Auslöschung. Anhand von Fallbeispielen vom Sturm und Drang bis zur Neuen Sachlichkeit stellt Inge Stephan abweichende, abtrünnige und alternative Typen von Männlichkeit vor und hinterfragt sie dabei kritisch auf ihr Widerstandspotential für die Gegenwart.
History of a Shiver
A sweeping cultural history that draws on music, literature, painting, and film, 'History of a Shiver' uncovers how art pioneered in the 19th century provided the foundation for modernist aesthetics.
Communicating Ice through Popular Art and Aesthetics
This book brings together the perspectives of eminent and emerging scholars from fields as varied as science communication, art history, pop cultural studies, environmental studies, sciences studying ice and artists to explore the power of (popular) arts and aesthetics to communicate ice research and the urgency of environmental action. Examining the aesthetic strategies employed in images, (popular) visual fiction and narratives to convey meaning and awareness – and how they can be made fruitful for science communication – the project will generate new perspectives on how our collective environmental responsibility can be addressed and communicated across disciplines and divers audiences. In doing so, the volume will illuminate the cultural power of ice research and contribute to a better understanding of the cultural work that emerges from our ecological crisis.
