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Architecture of Thought
An innovative examination of how material practices and constructed environments have shaped cultures.
Survivors
Reveals the harrowing story of life in Warsaw under Nazi occupation and explores resistance to the regime by the Warsaw intelligentsia.
Toward a Geography of Art
Art history traditionally classifies works of art by country as well as period, but often political borders and cultural boundaries are highly complex and fluid. Questions of identity, policy, and exchange make it difficult to determine the "place" of art, and often the art itself results from these conflicts of geography and culture. Addressing an important approach to art history, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann's book offers essays that focus on the intricacies of accounting for the geographical dimension of art history during the early modern period in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Toward a Geography of Art presents a historical overview of these complexities, debates contemporary concerns, a...
Peter the Great
A narrative of the fifty years of political struggles at the Russian court, 1671–1725. This book shows how Peter the Great was not the all-powerful tsar working alone to reform Russia, but that he colluded with powerful and contentious aristocrats in order to achieve his goals. After the early victory of Peter's boyar supporters in the 1690s, Peter turned against them and tried to rule through favourites - an experiment which ended in the establishment of a decentralized 'aristocratic' administration, followed by an equally aristocratic Senate in 1711. The aristocrats' hegemony came to an end in the wake of the affair of Peter's son, Tsarevich Aleksei, in 1718. After that moment Peter ruled through a complex group of favourites, a few aristocrats and appointees promoted through merit, and carried out his most long-lasting reforms. The outcome was a new balance of power at the centre and a new, European, conception of politics.
Acta Historiae Artium Balticae: 1
The first issue of the new periodical dedicated to art history art in the countries around the Baltic Sea. Co-publishers of the journal: Estonian Academy of Arts, Gdansk University and three Lithuanian institutions: Vilnius Academy of Art, Lithuanian Art Museum, and Culture, Philosophy and Arts Research Institute.
Besatzung
Es stimmt nicht, was rechte Medien in Polen gelegentlich berichten: Dass deutsche Schülerinnen und Schüler nichts über den deutschen Überfall auf Polen lernen, dass sie nichts über die deutschen Verbrechen wissen, insbesondere nichts über die Vernichtung der europäischen Juden. Was aber stimmt: Die schulische Wissensvermittlung in Deutschland konzentriert sich trotz der Anwendung moderner Unterrichtsmethoden auf die Aufarbeitung „eigener”, nationaler Erfahrungen der Vergangenheit – so wie dies auch in den Schulen aller anderen europäischen Länder getan wird. Für die Erfahrungen „anderer” ist hier kein Platz, selbst wenn es sich um so enge Nachbarn wie Polen handelt. Darum...
Renaissance and Baroque Art and Culture in the Eastern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1506-1696)
This monograph serves as an introduction to the art, architecture and literary culture of the Eastern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th and 17th centuries. The geographical area under discussion comprises the regions of contemporary Lithuania, western Belarus and western Ukraine. The introduction of the Renaissance and Baroque classical revival into these lands is considered here within the political context of nationalistic and religious loyalties, as well as economic status and class. The central discussion focuses on the issue of national identity and religious loyalty in the inter-relation between the Byzantine inheritance of the Lithuanian and Ruthenian populace and the Poloniz...
