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Phoenix
The inimitable fashions of Stephan Hann are produced from everyday materials like pages of telephone directories, Tetra Pak cartons and plastic carrier bags. These materials are transformed by the artist's hand into clothes which fascinate us immediately. At the same time his poetic creations provide us with food for thought. An evening dress made of blister packs, wings of cut scrap paper, a dress of celluloid films: Stephan Hann's impressive fashion creations consist entirely of items we usually do not pay attention to or may even throw away. Hann thus emphasises the unique value of each object as he transforms apparently worthless materials into memorable art. Through the processing of the fabrics he not only points out their memorable features but also makes his objects into powerful ambassadors of our cultural memory.
Beate Passow
A Barbary macaque sits on a martial gun barrel in Gibraltar. A powerful bear mounts a bull on Wall Street. A skeletal figure strides over destroyed refugee boats on Lampedusa. In her series of images "Monkey Business," the artist Beate Passow portrays a mysterious fairytale world of political dimensions. The black-and-white images--which upon closer observation turn out to be sophisticated tapestries--question the ruling systems, economic structures, and political movements of contemporary Europe. Narrating a penetrating mythology of the twenty-first century, Passow subverts the tapestry form, which traditionally praised rulers and heroes, and instead critiques the rise of corrupt capitalism, xenophobia, and military control in today's Europe.
Koho Mori-Newton
Koho Mori-Newton (*1951) ist ein Meister der absichtlichen Absichtslosigkeit. Seine Werke scheinen einfach, doch die dahinter liegende Ästhetik ist komplex. Immer wieder erforscht er die Grundlagen der Kunst selbst, stellt das Konzept der Originalität des künstlerischen Schaffensprozesses infrage, lotet die Grenzen von Kunstwerken aus. Sein Œuvre entführt in eine Welt jenseits des Plakativen. So bietet die labyrinthische Installation raumhoher Seidenbahnen Path of Silk, von Mori-Newton mit Tusche bearbeitet, ein fragiles Spiel von Raum und Licht, von Schwere und Leichtigkeit. Weitere Schwerpunkte seines Schaffens sind Wiederholung und Kopie, woraus seine grafischen Arbeiten einen ganz besonderen Reiz beziehen.
The Museum of the Future
Peter Sloterdijk sees our digitalized world in a "growing spatial crisis", accompanied by the danger of a "general virtuality of all relationships". Others view the digitalization of the world as opening up a grassroots democratic space that allows everyone access to culture. Against this backdrop, this anthology examines the spatial characteristics of the museum – between physical place and virtual space. The chapters collected here approach the museum space from various disciplinary perspectives, such as philosophy, history, art history, architecture, scenography, museum education and curatorial studies. At the same time, the contributions by international museum experts are assigned to different literary genres – fundamental considerations alternate with think pieces, case studies and interviews.
Cotton in Context
- While cotton was a world-changing good in the early modern period, for producers, merchants, and consumers, it was but one of many different fabrics. This volume explores this dichotomy by contextualizing cotton within its contemporary culture of textiles. In doing, it focuses on a long, under-researched region: the German-speaking world, particularly Switzerland, which transformed into one of the most prolific European regions for the production of printed cottons in the eighteenth century. Sixteen contributions investigate the (globally entangled) history of Indiennes, silk, wool, and embroideries, giving new insights into the manufacturing, marketing, and consumption of textiles between 1500 and 1900.
Remembering textiles
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Das Mittelalter in der Moderne
Mit der Schaffung des wittelsbachischen Königreiches und mit der Amalgamierung des neuen bayerischen Staats in den Jahren des „Napoleonischen Umbruchs“ gerieten die herrschaftliche Legitimation und die soziale Integration zu den drängenden politischen Herausforderungen bayerischer Politik. In dieser Phase historisch neu entdeckt, avancierte der mittelalterliche Kaiser Ludwig der Bayer zur prominentesten Erinnerungsfigur in Bayern im 19. Jahrhundert, die Könige, Staatsmänner, Oppositionelle, Liberale, Geschichtsschreiber, Literaten oder auch Künstler in politischer Absicht unentwegt ins öffentliche Gedächtnis riefen. Die vorliegende Studie zeichnet die Erinnerungsgeschichte Kaiser ...
Der Heilige Karl Borromaus (1846)
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
2013
Every year, the Bibliography catalogues the most important new publications, historiographical monographs, and journal articles throughout the world, extending from prehistory and ancient history to the most recent contemporary historical studies. Within the systematic classification according to epoch, region, and historical discipline, works are also listed according to author’s name and characteristic keywords in their title.
Für Königtum und Kunst
Seit seinem Kunsterlebnis vor der Hebe Antonio Canovas in Venedig 1804 nahmen das Bauen und das Sammeln eine herausragende Stellung im Leben König Ludwigs I. von Bayern (1786-1868) ein. Über 60 Jahre lang kaufte er Werke der Malerei sowie der antiken und zeitgenössischen Bildhauerkunst; mit der Alten Pinakothek, der Neuen Pinakothek und der Glyptothek ließ er für seine Sammlungen wegweisende Museumsgebäude errichten. Die Profilierung Münchens als europäisches Kunstzentrum geht weitgehend auf seine Impulse zurück. Architektur, Bildhauerei und Malerei nahm er systematisch in den Dienst, um politische Aussagen, die ihm wichtig waren, zu monumentalisieren und zu vermitteln. Die vorliege...
