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Flemish Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Two volumes, including works by the three foremost seventeenth-century Flemish artists{u2014}Rubens, Van Dyck, and Jordaens{u2014}as well as works by their contemporaries. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Friedrich der Grosse
Biografie König Friedrichs II. von Preussen und Darstellung der Zeit des Ancien Regime.
Art of the Royal Court
"In the royal and princely courts of Europe, artworks made of multicolored semiprecious stones were passionately coveted objects. Known as pietre dure, or hardstones, this type of artistic expression includes?paintings in stone,? which were composed of intricately cut separate pieces that were made into magnificent tabetops, cabinets, and wall decorations. Other works included vessels and ornaments carved with virtuosic skill from a single piece of rare and brilliant lapis lazuli, chalcedony, jasper, or similarly prized substance; exquisite objects such as boxes, clocks, and jewelry; and portraits of nobles sculpted in variously colored stones. Derived from ancient Roman decorative stonework...
Bilder der Liebe
Der Liebesdiskurs der Frühen Neuzeit nimmt eine wichtige Position in zahlreichen literarischen und künstlerischen Werken ein. Dabei werden zentrale Fragestellungen der Gesellschaft verhandelt: das Verhältnis zwischen den Geschlechtern, zwischen Privatem und Öffentlichem und zwischen den gesellschaftlichen Institutionen. Für die vielfältigen Liebesmodelle - wie zum Beispiel Ehe, Konkubinat und homoerotische Beziehungen - lassen sich differenzierte künstlerische Repräsentationsformen finden. Die Beiträge in diesem Band zeigen: Illegitimes Begehren wird mitunter in ambivalenten Ikonographien verborgen und kann zwischen mehreren Bedeutungshorizonten oszillieren.
Johann Georg Sulzer – Johann Jakob Bodmer
Band 10 der Gesammelten Schriften Sulzers enthält den gesamten Briefwechsel zwischen J. G. Sulzer (1720–1779) und J. J. Bodmer (1698–1783), der hier zum ersten Mal vollständig nach den Handschriften transkribiert und kommentiert wird. Für die Edition von Sulzers Schriften ist dieser Briefwechsel geradezu fundamental: Mit seinen 453 Briefen, die in 35 Jahren (1744–1779) entstanden sind, zählt er zu den umfangreichsten Korrespondenzen Sulzers und liefert zahlreiche neue Informationen zu zentralen Themenfeldern der europäischen Aufklärung, zur Genese von Sulzers und Bodmers Schriften, zu ihrem Netzwerk, insbesondere in Preußen und in der Schweiz, sowie zu Aspekten ihres Privatlebens. Damit erweist sich dieser Briefwechsel als eine unumgängliche Quelle, will man die Formierung des literarischen und akademischen Feldes in der Aufklärungsepoche untersuchen.
German Expressionist Paintings and Education
This book has two aims. The first aim is a modest attempt to help to overcome the neglect to which German expressionist paintings have been condemned by historians and art critics. The second aim is more difficult from an educational perspective. The book points out that a moving beauty and worthy truths call out from many German expressionist paintings. At times, this beauty and these truths may be comprehended straightforwardly. To complement the direct encounter with these paintings, the book suggests learning from concepts, ideas, and insights presented by existentialist philosophers. The book shows that these concepts, ideas, and insights can assist in harkening to the call of beauty an...
The Sword and the Stylus
The all-too-frequent disregard of historical and social contexts by many wisdom scholars often leads to the distortion of this literature and transforms its teachings into abstract ideas lacking any incarnation in the social and historical world of human living. Leo Perdue here argues from a sociohistorical approach that the proper understanding of ancient wisdom literature requires one to move out of the realm of philosophical idealism into the flesh and blood of human history. Arguing that wisdom was international in practice and outlook, Perdue traces the interaction between both ruling and subject nations and their sages who produced their respective cultures and their foundational worldviews. While not always easy to reconstruct, he acknowledges, the historical and social settings of texts provide necessary contexts for interpretation and engagement by later readers and hearers. Wisdom texts did not transcend their life settings to espouse values regardless of time and circumstance. Rather, they are located in a variety of historical events in an evolving nation, reflecting a vast array of different and changing moral systems, epistemologies, and religious understandings.
