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The Sensorium of the Drone and Communities
A comprehensive overview of how civilian drones sense the world and how they build the aesthetic imaginaries of our communities. Drone technology has garnered critical attention across many fields, from engineering to the humanities. While the first wave of drone scholarship was key in initiating the debate on drones, it also privileged the idea of the “scopic regime”—a militarized regime of hypervisuality—in its analyses of the connection between vision and power. The Sensorium of the Drone and Communities broadens the drone’s spectrum of perception by acknowledging its creative, life-affirming possibility with the notion of the sensorium. The sensorium of the drone is a multimedi...
Russian Minimalism
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Nazi-Era Provenance of Museum Collections
When we look at the artworks on display in museums, there is always a real possibility that some of these objects once belonged to victims of the Nazis – a possibility that has remained unacknowledged for far too long. Countless artworks were seized or forcibly sold, with many ending up in museum collections around the world, even in countries which actively fought to defeat Nazi Germany. Nazi-Era Provenance of Museum Collections equips readers with the knowledge and strategies essential for confronting the shadow of the Nazi past in museum collections. Jacques Schuhmacher provides the vital historical orientation required to understand the Nazis’ complex campaign of systematic disposses...
The Body of Evidence
When, why and how was it first believed that the corpse could reveal ‘signs’ useful for understanding the causes of death and eventually identifying those responsible for it? The Body of Evidence. Corpses and Proofs in Early Modern European Medicine, edited by Francesco Paolo de Ceglia, shows how in the late Middle Ages the dead body, which had previously rarely been questioned, became a specific object of investigation by doctors, philosophers, theologians and jurists. The volume sheds new light on the elements of continuity, but also on the effort made to liberate the semantization of the corpse from what were, broadly speaking, necromantic practices, which would eventually merge into forensic medicine.
Goering’s Man in Paris
A charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art worldBruno Lohse (1911–2007) was one of the most notorious art plunderers in history. Appointed by Hermann Göring to Hitler’s special art looting agency, he went on to supervise the systematic theft and distribution of over 22,000 artworks, largely from French Jews; helped Göring develop an enormous private art collection; and staged twenty private exhibitions of stolen art in Paris’s Jeu de Paume museum during the war. By the 1950s Lohse was officially denazified but back in the art dealing world, offering looted masterpieces to American museums. After his death, dozens of paintings by Renoir, Monet, and Pissarro, among others, were found in his Zurich bank vault and adorning the walls of his Munich home.Jonathan Petropoulos spent nearly a decade interviewing Lohse and continues to serve as an expert witness for Holocaust restitution cases. Here he tells the story of Lohse’s life, offering a critical examination of the postwar art world.
Kandinsky
Published to accompany exhibition held at Tate Modern, London, 22 June - 1 October 2006, Kunstmuseum, Basel, 21 October - 4 February 2007.
Design in Motion
The first comprehensive history in English of film at the Bauhaus, exploring practices that experimented with film as an adaptable, elastic “polymedium.” With Design in Motion, Laura Frahm proposes an alternate history of the Bauhaus—one in which visual media, and film in particular, are crucial to the Bauhaus’s visionary pursuit of integrating art and technology. In the first comprehensive examination in English of film at the Bauhaus, Frahm shows that experimentation with film spanned a range of Bauhaus practices, from textiles and typography to stage and exhibition design. Indeed, Bauhausler deployed film as an adaptable, elastic “polymedium,” malleable in shape and form, unfo...
Close Reading
Close Reading rückt programmatisch das Kunstwerk ins Zentrum konzentrierter kunsthistorischer Interpretationen. 72 internationale Autorinnen und Autoren analysieren jeweils ein Werk der Architektur, Skulptur, Malerei, Zeichnung oder Druckgrafik, von Albrecht Dürer und Matthias Grünewald, über Tizian, Artemisia Gentileschi, Michelangelo und Nicolas Poussin, Francesco Borromini und Fischer von Erlach, bis hin zu Oskar Kokoschka und Shirin Neshat. Sie folgen unterschiedlichen methodischen Zugängen, befassen sich mit dem Entstehungskontext, mit Datierungs- und Zuschreibungsfragen, der Sammlungs-, Provenienz- und Restaurierungsgeschichte, oder widmen sich Bild-Text-Relationen sowie ikonografischen, ikonologischen und bildtheoretischen Aspekten.
Ikonische Formprozesse
The term iconic form processes refers to phenomena that produce transitions between natural and symbolic forms. For example, the fire-scarred surface of a bronze artwork produces effects transcending the realm of artistic intention. When a work is created and perceived, the genesis of the image also invariably involves a “recession into the implicit” (John Dewey). This volume furnishes the foundations for a theory of iconic form processes.
Das leere Universum
In einer Zeit, in der Verschwörungstheorien wieder Hochkonjunktur haben, sich Vorurteile und Fremdenhass hartnäckig behaupten und der Mensch die Grenzen des Wachstums in Gestalt des Klimawandels bereits deutlich spürt, drängt sich eine philosophische Frage geradezu auf: Wie lässt sich die offenkundige Diskrepanz zwischen Intelligenz – der Fähigkeit, Einsicht in die Dinge zu erlangen – und Vernunft – der Fähigkeit, nach dieser Einsicht zu handeln – erklären? Jochen Dubiel sucht die Antwort nicht auf empirische Weise, indem er sich aus geschichtlicher, psychologischer, soziologischer oder ökonomischer Perspektive mit den verschiedenen Ausprägungen der Irrationalität auseinan...
