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Citizens of Europe
Katalog zur Ausstellung der Staatlichen Graphischen Sammlung in der Neuen Pinakothek (12.10.2005-08.01.2006) Am Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts entfaltete sich die Kunst am Hof der bayerischen Herzöge zu großer Blüte. Niederländische Künstler, die ihre Heimat aus religiösen, politischen und wirtschaftlichen Gründen verlassen hatten, spielten dabei eine herausragende Rolle. Im Auftrag von Herzog Wilhelm V. setzten sie ihre künstlerischen Fähigkeiten zuerst bei der Ausstattung der Burg Trausnitz in Landshut ein, dann in der Münchner Residenz und beim Bau und der Ausstattung der Kirche St. Michael.
Exuberant Apotheoses: Italian Frescoes in the Holy Roman Empire
From the late seventeenth through the mid-eighteenth centuries, large-scale Italian frescoes soared in popularity as nobles in the German principalities of the Holy Roman Empire constructed new palaces at an unprecedented rate. They competed with one another to produce lavish decorative schemes that expressed their claim to princely power and political authority. Whereas previous art historians have primarily focused on iconographic and stylistic issues and generally treated these programs as individual commissions of regional courts, this book places the works of art within their broad cultural and historical contexts during the Enlightenment. This monograph explains how rulers gradually shifted from emphasizing military heroism to stressing their cultivation of the arts and sciences, and addresses how expressing membership in a specifically European civilization emerged as an integral visual theme and a key ambition of the German nobility.
The Court Art of Friedrich Sustris
Shedding new light on the relatively unknown art of the Wittelsbach dukes's sixteenth-century court, The Court Art of Friedrich Sustris represents the first monograph to focus on this Italian-trained Netherlandish artist. The volume incorporates original archival material, including letters and payment records into the analysis of Sustris's many projects that ranged from large fresco cycles to intimate luxury and devotional objects. Duke Wilhelm V of Bavaria transformed Munich into a vital cultural crossroads between northern Europe and Italy. As Wilhelm's court artist and artistic director, Friedrich Sustris created a unified vision that broadcast Bavarian magnificence to princely courts across Europe. Although much of Sustris's work is lost, the remaining body of his drawings provides a unique window onto the reception of drawings by early modern elites within the context of their collecting practices.
The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe
The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe offers a full historical survey of Dickens's reception in all the major European countries and many of the smaller ones, filling a major gap in Dickens scholarship, which has by and large neglected Dickens's fortunes in Europe, and his impact on major European authors and movements. Essays by leading international critics and translators give full attention to cultural changes and fashions, such as the decline of Dickens's fortunes at the end of the nineteenth century in the period of Naturalism and Aestheticism, and the subsequent upswing in the period of Modernism, in part as a consequence of the rise of film in the era of Chaplin and Eisenstein. It will also offer accounts of Dickens's reception in periods of political upheaval and revolution such as during the communist era in Eastern Europe or under fascism in Germany and Italy in particular.
Branding the Campus
In his most recent art project, Branding the Campus, Christian Philipp Muller considers the representation of the university in the public sphere. Taking the University of Luneberg as its main site of inquiry, Muller's investigations reveal that "branding" is not simply the creation of identificatory signs. Branding the Campus problematizes the commercial pressures put on universities of late, pressures which affect the content and social criteria of academic culture. Textual and photographic documentation of Muller's two-part permanent installation is accompanied by essays examining the methodological and content-oriented relationship between this work and the artist's previous projects.
Out of Order, Out of Sight
Adrian Piper joins the ranks of writer-artists who have provided much of the basic and most reliable literature on modern and contemporary art. Out of Order, Out of Sight is an artistic and intellectual autobiography and an (occasionally scathing) commentary on mainstream art, art criticism, and American culture of the last twenty-five years. Piper is an internationally recognized conceptual artist and the only African American in the early conceptual art movement of the 1960s. The writings in Out of Order, Out of Sight trace the development of her thinking about her artwork and the art world, and her evolving awareness of herself as a creative, racial, and gendered subject situated in an often limiting and always absurd cultural and social context.
From Schongauer to Holbein
"Presenting for the first time complementary holdings from the internationally renowned drawing collections of the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, and the Kupferstichkabinett, Basel, this volume is a singular overview of drawings from the beginnings of the German Renaissance to the mid-sixteenth century." "This survey presents twenty-five artists altogether, each represented by descriptive analysis and color reproductions of their work, in addition to detailed essays about the history of the Basel and Berlin collections, an outline of the history of master drawings from the German Renaissance, and a selected bibliography."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Jacopo Strada and Cultural Patronage at The Imperial Court (2 Vols.)
In Jacopo Strada and Cultural Patronage at the Imperial Court: Antiquity as Innovation, Dirk Jansen provides a survey of the life and career of the antiquary, architect, and courtier Jacopo Strada (Mantua 1515–Vienna 1588). His manifold activities — also as a publisher and as an agent and artistic and scholarly advisor of powerful patrons such as Hans Jakob Fugger, the Duke of Bavaria and the Emperors Ferdinand I and Maximilian II — are examined in detail, and studied within the context of the cosmopolitan learned and courtly environments in which he moved. These volumes offer a substantial reassessment of Strada’s importance as an agent of change, transmitting the ideas and artistic language of the Italian Renaissance to the North.
Nachdenken über Public Relations
Zentralen Themen der Beiträge des Bandes sind die Kernfragen des PR-Berufs. Sie reflektieren grundsätzliche und auch sehr konkrete Fragen von PR-Moral und PR-Ethik, beschäftigen sich mit Ethik-Institutionen wie dem deutschen PR-Rat DRPR, Fragen wie der Ausbildung für den PR-Beruf, der PR-Wissenschaft, Kulturarbeit, Kulturpolitik und Kulturkommunikation und die Kommunikation der Automobilindustrie. Die Texte von Horst Avenarius, darunter einige bislang unveröffentlichte Artikel, sind interessant für alle, die regelmäßig oder auch gelegentlich über diesen Beruf und das Berufsfeld nachdenken.
Hans Holbein the Younger
Addressing the critical reception of painter Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/98-1543), this volume consists of two parts. The first section comprises a series of short essays reflecting responses to Holbein throughout history which forged his critical and popular reputation. This section also includes overviews of the most important monographs and exhibitions, as well as a selection of research published since 1980. The second, much larger part is an annotated bibliography containing some 2,500 entries on a range of subjects including books, essays in scholarly journals, and articles published in the popular media. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
