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European Fans in the 17th and 18th Centuries
In 17th and 18th century Europe, folding fans were important, socially-coded fashion accessories. In the course of the 18th century, painted and printed fan leaves displayed an increasing variety of visual motifs and artistic subject matter, while many of them also addressed contemporary political and social topics. This book studies the visual and material diversity of fans from an interdisciplinary perspective. The individual essays analyze fans in the context of the fine and applied arts, discussing the role of fans in cultures of communication and examining them as souvenir objects and vehicles for political and social messages.
Everyday Political Objects
Everyday Political Objects examines a series of historical case studies across a very broad timescale, using objects as a means to develop different approaches to understanding politics where both internal and external definitions of the political prove inadequate. Materiality and objects have gradually made their way into the historian’s toolbox in recent years, but the distinctive contribution that a set of methods developed for the study of objects can make to our understanding of politics has yet to be explored. This book shows how everyday objects play a certain role in politics, which is specific to material things. It provides case studies which re-orientate the view of the politica...
How to Read European Decorative Arts
Spanning three centuries of creativity, from the High Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution, this volume in The Met’s How to Read series provides a peek into daily lives across Europe—from England, Spain, and France to Germany, Denmark, and Russia. Featuring 40 exemplary objects, including furniture, tableware, utilitarian items, articles of personal adornment, devotional objects, and display pieces, this publication covers many aspects of European society and lifestyles, from the modest to the fabulously wealthy. The book considers the contributions of renowned masters, such as the Dutch cabinetmaker Jan van Mekeren and the Italian goldsmith Andrea Boucheron, as well as talented amateurs, among them the anonymous young Englishwoman who embroidered an enchanting chest with scenes from the Story of Esther. The works selected include both masterpieces and less familiar examples, some of them previously unpublished, and are discussed not only in light of their art-historical importance but also with regard to the social issues relevant to each, such as the impact of colonial slavery or the changing status of women artists.
Wahrnehmen, Speichern, Erinnern
Current developments in the digital organization of knowledge give rise to an in-depth study in the humanities of the history of the cultural practice of capturing and storing information. This interdisciplinary anthology discusses current research issues on historical theories and practices of information processing in art history research. Using examples from the period between the end of the 17th century and the early 19th century, the contributions investigate how in Europe new ideas of storing knowledge and processing data were reflected in the fine arts and arts theory during this critical period of competing methods of capturing information.
Abraham-Louis Breguet
Inventeur de génie, artiste et entrepreneur audacieux, Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747-1823) est souvent reconnu comme le plus grand horloger de tous les temps. À partir de Paris où il s'était établi, ce Suisse d'origine a étendu son réseau commercial à travers le monde, côtoyant, au fil des bouleversements de son époque, Marie-Antoinette, la famille Bonaparte, George IV d'Angleterre ou encore le tsar de Russie. Créations uniques de l'ère préindustrielle, les oeuvres de Breguet - montres, pendules ou chronomètres pour les sciences au style épuré - constituent des chefs-d'oeuvre tant artistiques que techniques.
Political Objects in the Age of Revolutions
The importance of things, the vitality and mobility of objects, their ability to offer different viewpoints on life in the past, are all themes that have emerged from the many recent historical studies on material culture. However, the political life of objects has not yet been fully investigated. This volume offers new analytical reflections and insights through a number of European case studies, and in this way reconstructs a material history of politics in the very significant period known as the Age of Revolutions. From the late 18th century and through much of the 19th century, various kinds of objects (pocket-sized, decorative, clothing and other) played an important role in the processes of politicisation and mobilisation that accompanied, preceded and followed revolutionary episodes. Examining political action through material objects gives us deeper insight into the activities and behaviours of men and women in the past and allows us to cross-reference different analytical perspectives that rarely interact.
Voyager et s'en souvenir
Au XVIIIe siècle, les premiers voyageurs anglais dans les Alpes commencent à acquérir des estampes produites par un groupe d'artistes connu sous le nom de petits maîtres suisses. Des milliers d'estampes que les touristes rapportent dans en Angleterre, et désormais présentes dans les collections du National Trust, de la British Library et du British Museum. Voyage et image deviennent indissociables. Un lien se tisse entre ces voyageurs, ces alpinistes, et ces images, dont la nature change d'un siècle à l'autre. En étudiant la diffusion de l'image suisse et la forme matérielle sous laquelle elle a été collectionnée, transportée et conservée depuis le xviiie siècle, Danijela Buc...
Architectural Alignment of Access Control Requirements Extracted from Business Processes
Business processes and information systems evolve constantly and affect each other in non-trivial ways. Aligning security requirements between both is a challenging task. This work presents an automated approach to extract access control requirements from business processes with the purpose of transforming them into a) access permissions for role-based access control and b) architectural data flow constraints to identify violations of access control in enterprise application architectures.
Intraoperative Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy
Image-guided therapy (IGT) uses imaging to improve the localization and targeting of diseased tissue and to monitor and control treatments. During the past decade, image-guided surgeries and image-guided minimally invasive interventions have emerged as advances that can be used in place of traditional invasive approaches. Advanced imaging technologies such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT), and positron emission tomography (PET) entered into operating rooms and interventional suites to complement already-available routine imaging devices like X-ray and ultrasound. At the same time, navigational tools, computer-assisted surgery devices, and image-guided robots also...
