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Presence
In about 25 BC tribesmen of the kingdom of Meroe placed a bronze head of Augustus, cut from a full-length statue, beneath the steps of a temple of victory: the decapitated head of the Emperor was thus regularly trampled underfoot. Two millennia later, during the second Gulf War, Iraqis 'insulted' a toppled bronze statue of Saddam Hussein by beating it with their shoes. Do these chronologically distant but apparently related examples of the defamation of images imply that the persons represented were regarded by their detractors as in some way 'present' in the images? Presence: The Inherence of the Prototype within Images and Other Objects reconsiders the notion of 'presence' in objects. The ...
Floating Architecture
Floating architecture is not only an issue for luxurious tourism but with the climatic change the building of floating structures becomes relevant for many areas in the world. In regions with rising sea levels, frequent flooding, or thawing permafrost, floating structures can be a solution to adapt existing settlement areas to these new conditions. The self-sufficient energy and supply systems required for floating settlements can also be used in rural areas with a lot of migration.This collection presents papers of conferences organized by the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU). (Series: Floating Architecture-Building at the and on the Water / Schwimmende Architektur-Bauen am und auf dem Wasser, Vol. 1) [Subject: Architecture, Environmental Studies]
History of Photography
The fourth volume in a history of photography, this is a bibliography of books on the subject.
The Devil's Music Master
From 1922 until his death in 1954, Wilhelm Furtwängler was the foremost cultural music figure of the German-speaking world, conductor of both the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic orchestras. But a cloud still hangs over his reputation, despite his undeniable brilliance as a musician, because of a fatal and tragic decision. Wilhelm Furtwängler remained in Germany when thousands of intellectuals and artists fled after the Nazis seized power in 1933. His decision to stay behind earned him lasting condemnation as a Nazi collaborator--"The Devil's Music Master." Decades after his death, Furtwängler remains for many not only the greatest but also the most controversial musical personality of our ...
Floating Architecture 2
The collection presents papers of conferences organized by the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU).
The Lost German East
After 1945, Germany was inundated with ethnic German refugees expelled from Eastern Europe. Andrew Demshuk explores why they integrated into West German society.
When Form Becomes Substance
This interdisciplinary volume collects contributions from experts in their respective fields with as common theme diagrams. Diagrams play a fundamental role in the mathematical visualization and philosophical analysis of forms in space. Some of the most interesting and profound recent developments in contemporary sciences, whether in topology, geometry, dynamic systems theory, quantum field theory or string theory, have been made possible by the introduction of new types of diagrams, which, in addition to their essential role in the discovery of new classes of spaces and phenomena, have contributed to enriching and clarifying the meaning of the operations, structures and properties that are ...
Mathematical Models
This book presents beautiful photos of mathematical models of geometric surfaces made from a variety of materials including plaster, metal, paper, wood, and string. The construction of these models at the time (of Felix Klein and others) was not an end in itself, but was accompanied by mathematical research especially in the field of algebraic geometry. The models were used to illustrate the mathematical objects defined by abstract formulas, either as equations or parameterizations. In the second part of the book, the models are explained by experts in the field of geometry. This book is a reprint thirty years after the original publication in 1986 with a new preface by Gert-Martin Greuel. The models have a timeless appeal and a historical value.
Eugen Szenkar (1891–1977)
Der in Budapest geborene Dirigent Eugen Szenkar (1891–1977) wirkte ab 1916 an mehreren deutschen Opernhäusern – vor allem in Altenburg, Frankfurt, Berlin und Köln. Durch seine Ur- und Erstaufführungen neuer Werken von Bartók, Hindemith, Strawinksky, Prokofieff, Alban Berg, Richard Strauss und anderen zeitgenössischen Komponisten war er einer der bedeutendsten Avantgardisten an den Opernbühnen der Weimarer Republik. Während seiner Exiljahre ab 1933 baute er u.a. in Rio de Janeiro ein Konzertleben nach europäischem Vorbild auf. 1950 kehrte er in ein festes Engagement nach Deutschland zurück und wurde Operndirektor in Mannheim und Düsseldorf, wo er sich dem Wiederaufbau eines geregelten Repertoirebetriebs widmete. Als gefragter Gastdirigent war er in ganz Europa unterwegs.
