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People and Ideas on the Move
During the 1970s the todays Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung, BMBWF) supported the founding of the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and the Austrian Chair at Stanford University in California. These foundings were the initial incentives for the worldwide 'spreading' of similar institutions; currently nine Centers for Austrian and Central European Studies exist in seven states on three continents. The funding of the Ministry enables to connect senior with young scholars, to help young PhD students, to participate and to benefit from the scientific connection of expe...
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The Dream Endures
What we now call "the good life" first appeared in California during the 1930s. Motels, home trailers, drive-ins, barbecues, beach life and surfing, sports from polo and tennis and golf to mountain climbing and skiing, "sportswear" (a word coined at the time), and sun suits were all a part of the good life--perhaps California's most distinctive influence of the 1930s. In The Dream Endures, Kevin Starr shows how the good life prospered in California--in pursuits such as film, fiction, leisure, and architecture--and helped to define American culture and society then and for years to come. Starr previously chronicled how Californians absorbed the thousand natural shocks of the Great Depression-...
Donatellos Prophetenstatuen am Campanile des Florentiner Doms
Donatello schuf zwischen 1415 und 1436 fünf Prophetenstatuen für den Glockenturm der im Bau befindlichen Florentiner Kathedrale. Die Statuen waren Teil eines umfassenden Skulpturenprogramms am Campanile, das im 14. Jahrhundert unvollendet gelassen worden war: von den 16 Nischen an den vier Seiten des Turmes waren acht noch leer, als Donatello und andere Bildhauer der Dombauhütte Aufträge für die noch fehlenden Stücke erhielten. Diese Studie setzt zwei Schwerpunkte: zunächst wird das spätmittelalterliche Figurenprogramm des Campanile näher betrachtet im Hinblick auf seine stadtpolitische und religiös-heilsgeschichtliche Bedeutung. Der Vergleich mit ähnlichen Bildprogrammen in Itali...
The Place of the Viewer
In recent decades, art historians and critics have occasionally emphasized a dynamic, embodied mode of looking, accenting the role of the viewer and the complex interplay between beholders and works of art. In The Place of the Viewer, Kerr Houston shows that an attention to the position and physical experiences of beholders has in fact long informed art historical analyses – and that close study of the theme can lead to a fuller understanding of the discipline, the act of viewership and individual works of art. Simultaneously attentive to historical ideas and contemporary scholarship, this book identifies a vein of thought that has been generally overlooked, and proposes new ways of seeing familiar works and traditions.
National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Fictions of Art History
DIV Fictions of Art History, the most recent addition to the Clark Studies in the Visual Arts series, addresses art history’s complex relationships with fiction, poetry, and creative writing. Inspired by a 2010 conference, the volume examines art historians’ viewing practices and modes of writing. How, the contributors ask, are we to unravel the supposed facts of history from the fictions constructed in works of art? How do art historians employ or resist devices of fiction, and what are the effects of those choices on the reader? In styles by turns witty, elliptical, and plain-speaking, the essays in Fictions of Art History are fascinating and provocative critical interventions in art history. /div
Thomas Mann ve Ailesi - Bir Yaşam Öyküsü
Bir ailenin sekiz ferdi, sekiz farklı bakış açısı. Avrupa edebiyatının en köklü ve sıra dışı ailelerinden biri olan Mann ailesinin hikâyesi hiç bu şekilde anlatılmadı. Thomas Mann’ın devasa gölgesini rakipleri kadar ailesindekiler de hisseder. Her daim yanında olan eşi Katia, onu çocuklarından korur: babası gibi ünlü bir yazar olmak isteyen oğlu Klaus; tutkuyla seven ve tutkuyla nefret eden büyük kızları Erika; mutluluğu ailesinden uzaklarda arayan çekingen Golo; müzisyen olmak isteyen ve ailenin beklentilerine karşı koyan Michael; hayvanlarla konuşmak ve dünyayı kurtarmak isteyen, babasının gözbebeği Elisabeth ve herkesin alay ettiği Monika. Hayatı uçlarda yaşayan, anne babasının servetini yok eden, hepsi Hitler’e düşman olacak çocuklar. Hayat onları nereye savuracak? Tilmann Lahme’nin belgesel romanı, Mann ailesinin sevgiyle, tarihsel sınavlarla ve ihanetle dolu destansı öyküsünü anlatıyor. “Elindeki malzemeyi olağanüstü bir şekilde anlatan, ilk bakışta eğlenceli ama aslında son derece hüzünlü bir kitap.” Süddeutsche Zeitung
