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Decadence Now!
Decadence Now!: Visions of Excessupdates the androgyny, druggy velvet glamour, individualist dandyism and gothic decay of nineteenth-century Decadence for our times. Here, Decadence is envisioned as a response to apocalypse, economic turmoil and the effects of late capitalism. Decadence Now!: Visions of Excessreaches back to the 1970s to examine pre-millennial rumblings of alienation, aestheticism, morbidity, pornography, intoxication and madness in the art of Nobuyoshi Araki, Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman, and considers more recent works by Matthew Barney, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Gilbert and George, Keith Haring, Gottfried Helnwein, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Yasumasa Morimura, Catherine Opie, Zhang Peng, Pierre et Gilles, Andres Serrano, Joel-Peter Witkin, David Wojnarowicz and many others. These works are assessed under thematic chapters: "Excess of the Self: Pain"; "Excess of the Body: Sex"; "Excess of Beauty: Pop"; and "Excess of Life: Death." Curator Otto M. Urban maps the Decadent tendency project through visual art, philosophy and literature.
Jan Švankmajer
Although the art and films of Jan Švankmajer enjoy wide international recognition today, ranking him among the most original artists of the last decades, many aspects of his life and work have remained unexplored. Nor has any book yet tried to systematically and comprehensively mark out the path of the formation and development in the work of this film-maker, artist, experimenter, poet and 'militant Surrealist' and thus show how the different sides converse with each other. The present book is the most comprehensive monograph on Jan Švankmajer so far, it describes with greater depth and precision aspects of his life and work and it invites the reader to dive into a wonderfully rich and coherent, distinctive and unique universe. The essays emphasise and illuminate characteristic attributes of Švankmajer's work - puppet theatre, Mannerism, Surrealism, collaboration with Eva Švankmajerová, his own film idiom, and also comparatively little known elements such as obsessional passion for collecting, first formative years and experiences.
Collecting Asian Art
Rather than centering on the well-known collections in Western European and North American museums, Collecting Asian Art turns to museum collections of Asian art in Central Europe which emerged from the late 19th century onwards. Highlighting the dimensions of Central European connectedness, this volume explores how these collections evolved and changed under changing cultural and political conditions from the pre-World War I to the post-World War II periods. With a primary focus on collections of East Asian, South Asian, and West Asian art in Vienna, Prague, Berlin, Warsaw, Kraków, Budapest, and Ljubljana, it outlines the transregional connections and networks that gradually developed. Col...
Artefakt - Inschrift - Gebrauch
Die Taufe ist wesentlicher Bestandteil des Christentums. Der Täufling wird gereinigt, in den Glauben und die religiöse Gemeinschaft eingeführt. Bereits im Mittelalter wurde dieser rituelle Akt mit geweihtem Wasser durchgeführt, das sich im Regelfall in hölzernen, steinernen oder metallenen Becken befand. Oft waren diese Taufbecken zentral im Kirchenraum platziert und im Zusammenhang von Altar, Wandmalerei oder Prozessionsweg inszeniert. Die Gefässe wurden häufig aufwendig verziert, mit Bildern und narrativen Sequenzen ausgestaltet oder mit Inschriften versehen. Als Gebrauchsgegenstände des Taufsakraments und der Taufwasserweihe waren sie in rituelle Praktiken eingebunden. Die räumli...
Writing Beyond Pen and Parchment
What can stories of magical engraved rings or prophetic inscriptions on walls tell us about how writing was perceived before print transformed the world? Writing beyond Pen and Parchment introduces readers to a Middle Ages where writing is not confined to manuscripts but is inscribed in the broader material world, in textiles and tombs, on weapons or human skin. Drawing on the work done at the Collaborative Research Centre “Material Text Cultures,” (SFB 933) this volume presents a comparative overview of how and where text-bearing artefacts appear in medieval German, Old Norse, British, French, Italian and Iberian literary traditions, and also traces the paths inscribed objects chart across multiple linguistic and cultural traditions. The volume’s focus on the raw materials and practices that shaped artefacts both mundane or fantastical in medieval narratives offers a fresh perspective on the medieval world that takes seriously the vibrancy of matter as a vital aspect of textual culture often overlooked.
Anatomie
Dieses Lehrbuch erfasst examensgerecht alle Teilgebiete der Anatomie: makroskopische Anatomie einschließlich Topographie, Embryologie, Histologie mit integrierter Zytologie und mikroskopischer Anatomie. Es ist lerngerecht und klinikorientiert durch: Stoffauswahl und Gliederung unter klinischen Gesichtspunkten - "Wie du dem Menschen gegenüberstehst." Aufbau nach dem Modul-Prinzip mit Lernzielen und kurzen Zusammenfassungen - fächerübergreifende und funktionelle Aspekte - klinische Hinweise. Das Werk ist eng mit einem internetbasierten Lernprogramm verbunden (e-learning), das das Buch um einen Atlas der Histologie und der mikroskopischen Anatomie erweitert. Makroskopisch-anatomische Animationen zu ausgewählten Kapiteln machen Spaß und fördern die Lerneffizienz.
Divine Names on the Spot
'Ancient Greek and Semitic languages resorted to a large range of words to name the divine. Gods and goddesses were called by a variety of names and combinations of onomastic attributes. This broad lexicon of names is characterised by plurality and a tendency to build on different sequences of names; therefore, the Mapping Ancient Polytheisms project focuses on the process of naming the divine in order to better understand the ancient divine in terms of a plurality in the making. A fundamental rule for reading ancient divine names is to grasp them in their context - time and place, a ritual, the form of the discourse, a cultural milieu...: a deity is usually named according to a specific situation. From Artemis Eulochia to al-Lat, al-'Uzza and Manat, from Melqart to "my rock" in the biblical book of Psalms, this volume journeys between the sanctuary on Mount Gerizim and late antique magical practices, revisiting rituals, hymnic poetry, oaths of orators and philosophical prayers. While targeting different names in different contexts, the contributors draft theoretical propositions towards a dynamic approach of naming the divine in antiquity.'
Pamphlets on Biology
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Magnetresonanztomographie
Wie schon die sehr erfolgreichen Vorauflagen, behandelt auch die vollständig überarbeitete, aktualisierte und erweiterte 3. Auflage die diagnostischen Möglichkeiten der Magnetresonanztomographie bezogen auf alle Körperregionen. Normale und pathologische Befunde werden in sehr umfangreichem Bildmaterial dokumentiert. Alle Kapitel sind so weit wie möglich einheitlich aufgebaut und enthalten Empfehlungen zur Untersuchungstechnik und zum diagnostischen Vorgehen sowie eine kritische Wertung der MRT im Vergleich zu den anderen bildgebenden Verfahren. In der 3. Auflage sind u.a. die Kapitel über die interventionelle und die funktionelle MRT erweitert und ein neues Kapitel über die MRT in der Bestrahlungsplanung ist hinzugekommen. Radiologen in Klinik und Praxis finden in diesem Buch einen ausgezeichneten Leitfaden für die Durchführung und Indikationsstellung zur MRT-Untersuchung.
Moving Forward, Looking Back
This book, the first full critical overview of the film avant-garde, ushers in a new approach—and in the process creates its own subject. While many books have studied particular aspects of the European film avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s, Moving Forward, Looking Back provides a much-needed summary of the theory and practice of the movement, while also emphasizing aspects of the period that have been overlooked. Arguing that a European perspective is the only way to understand the transnational movement, the book also pioneers a new approach to the alternative cinema network that sustained the avant-garde, paying particular attention to the emergence of film culture as visible in screening clubs, film festivals, and archives. It will be essential to anyone interested in the influential movement and the film culture it created.
