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Art History and Fetishism Abroad
By focusing on the various modes and media of the fetishised object, this anthology shifts the debates on thingness into a new global art historical perspective. The contributors explore the attention given to those material images, in both artistic and cultural practice from the heyday of colonial expansion until today. They show that in becoming vehicles and agents of transculturality, so called »fetishes« take shape in the 17th to 19th century aesthetics, psychology and ethnography - and furthermore inspire a recent discourse on magical practice and its secular meanings requiring altered art historical approaches and methods.
Aesthetic Temporalities Today
This volume is dedicated to the interrelation between temporality and representation. It presumes that time cannot be conceived of as an abstract chronometric order, but that it is referring to materiality, being measured, represented, expressed, recognized, experienced and evaluated, and therefore is always closely related to cultural contexts of perception and evaluation. The contributions from various disciplines are dedicated to the present and its plural conditions and meanings. They provide insights into the state of research with special emphasis on the global present as well as on art and aesthetics from the 18th century until today. The anthology includes contributions by Mieke Bal, Stefan Binder, Maximilian Bergengruen, Iris Därmann, Gabriele Genge, Boris Roman Gibhardt, Boris Groys, Maria Muhle, Johannes F. Lehmann, Nkiru Nzegwu, Francesca Raimondi, Christine Ross, Ludger Schwarte, Angela Stercken, Samuel Strehle, Timm Trausch, Patrick Stoffel, and Christina Wessely.
Image Controversies
In many contemporary societies we encounter iconoclasm breaking out with renewed violence. Iconoclastic actions against objects of visual material culture and testimonials of history act as dynamite in the public sphere. They are expressions of political, religious, national, and identity conflicts. Even the freedom of art is threatened by censorship and cancel culture. Based on case studies from different world regions, contemporary iconoclasms in art, media, and cultural heritage are critically analyzed from both a global and an interdisciplinary perspective. Divided into three sections, the book discusses attacks on monuments and memorials, idol disputes in museums and the visual arts, and forms of mediated iconoclasm in contemporary art.
What We Brought with Us
In exile and migration, the things that forcibly displaced people take with them become mobile testimonies of defiance, mourning, creativity, and rejuvenation. Through a series of scholarly essays and autobiographical vignettes, this richly illustrated volume draws on such observations to examine the meanings that possessions assume when they are wrenched from their original contexts. The contributors to this collection shine an intimate spotlight on those who are driven from their homes by conflict and forced into exile by authoritarian regimes. In so doing, the contributors underscore the necessity for civil societies to support academic freedom and the work done by critical thinkers worldwide.
Die Farbe des Vergangenen
Die Verwertung formaler Prinzipien auf der einen, die Aktivierung von Stadtphantasien entlang des Vesuvausbruchs auf der anderen Seite definieren die Pole, zwischen denen sich pompejanische Rezeptionen bewegen konnten. Das Phänomen Pompeji liegt in der täglich erfahrbaren Grenzüberschreitung, dem voyeuristischen Blick in intime Lebensräume, in denen das eruptive Todesszenario stets präsent ist. Im sublimierenden Akt der Revitalisierung, den die Toten, ihre Häuser und Gassen provozieren, schwindet die empfundene Fremdheit gegenüber der Antike oder potenziert sich noch. Mit der Verlebendigung des Verschütteten werden Abstand und Nähe zum eigenen Alltag immer wieder neu vermessen.
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Kunst um 1800
Die Ausstellungsreihe Kunst um 1800 prägte Debatten über die Praxis des Kuratierens sowie die gesellschaftliche Relevanz von Kunst, die bis heute nachwirken, und revidierte Narrative der europäischen Kunstgeschichte. Realisiert in neun Teilen zwischen 1974–81 an der Hamburger Kunsthalle unter der Regie des damaligen Direktors Werner Hofmann stellte der Zyklus auf bahnbrechende Weise die tiefgreifenden Umwälzungen am Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts in den Mittelpunkt. Kunst um 1800 war Forschungsprojekt, Ausstellungsexperiment, Feier der Bildkünste und politische Stellungnahme. Im Zuge der Etablierung einer streitbaren Demokratie in den 1970er-Jahre arbeitete die Reihe die Wirkmacht von Ku...
A Sense of Urgency
A study of how the climate crisis is changing human communication from a celebrated rhetorician. Why is it difficult to talk about climate change? Debra Hawhee argues that contemporary rhetoric relies on classical assumptions about humanity and history that cannot conceive of the present crisis. How do we talk about an unprecedented future or represent planetary interests without privileging our own species? A Sense of Urgency explores four emerging answers, their sheer novelty a record of both the devastation and possible futures of climate change. In developing the arts of magnitude, presence, witness, and feeling, A Sense of Urgency invites us to imagine new ways of thinking with our imperiled planet.
Endless Forms
A gorgeously illustrated book that is the first to explore the impact of Darwin's ideas about man and nature on 19th-century visual arts Charles Darwin's revolutionary theories of evolution and natural selection have not only had a profound influence on the fields of biology and natural history, but also provided fertile territory for the creative imagination. This lavishly illustrated book accompanies an exhibition organized by the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, in association with the Yale Center for British Art, that will coincide with the global celebration of the bicentenary of Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species by Means...
Relating with More-than-Humans
Within the social sciences, other-than-human being’s agency has often been denied and interbeings relationships have not been fully addressed. However, many indigenous worldviews and Western contemporary spiritual practices are shaping a very different reality, with various attempts to share the world with non-human beings, animate or inanimate, creating forms of relationships to “the living”. This edited volume documents how humans deal with non-human entities in a large variety of cultural contexts. It focuses on ritual processes and how ritual creativity is mobilised to invent new ways of relating with more-than-humans. Comprising nine case studies, the volume is divided into three ...
