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14/18 – Rupture or Continuity
The impact of the Great War and its aftermath on Belgian artistic life World War I had a major effect on Belgian visual arts. German occupation, the horror at the battlefield and the experience of exile led to multiple narratives and artistic expressions by Belgian artists during and after the war. Belgian interbellum art is extremely vibrant and diverse. 14/18 – Rupture or Continuity takes a look at Belgian artistic life in the years around the First World War and how it was affected by this event. The Great War was a catalyst of artistic oppositions, leading on the one hand to a Belgian avant-garde that explored new forms and styles, while continuing to uphold a more traditional and established art on the other. Whereas the war experience consolidated an already present style for some artists, for others it constituted a revolution leading to new artistic adventures. The collection of essays in the present book highlights these contrasting facets of Belgian art in its rich historical context during the early 20th century.
Historic Avant-Garde Work on Paper
This book examines the many functions of paper in the fine art and aesthetics of the early twentieth-century modernist or historic avant-garde (Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Constructivism and many more). With its many collages and photomontages, the historic avant-garde is generally considered to have transformed paper from a mere support into an artistic medium and to have assisted in art on paper gaining a firm autonomy. Bringing together an international team of scholars, this book shows that the story of paper in the avant-garde has thereby hardly been told. The first section looks at a selection of canonized individual avant-gardists’ work on paper to demonstr...
Revival After the Great War
The challenges of post-war recovery from social and political reform to architectural design In the months and years immediately following the First World War, the many (European) countries that had formed its battleground were confronted with daunting challenges. These challenges varied according to the countries' earlier role and degree of involvement in the war but were without exception enormous. The contributors to this book analyse how this was not only a matter of rebuilding ravaged cities and destroyed infrastructure, but also of repairing people’s damaged bodies and upended daily lives, and rethinking and reforming societal, economic and political structures. These processes took ...
Der Sturm und Die Aktion
Die expressionistische Bewegung ist dafür bekannt, dass sie sich vorrangig in Gruppen abgespielt hat – und dass aus den unterschiedlichen Projekten eine nahezu unüberschaubare Menge an Zeitschriften hervorgegangen ist. Aus dieser Masse ragen Herwarth Waldens Der Sturm (1910 –1932) sowie Franz Pfemferts Die Aktion (1911–1932) als jene beiden Zeitschriften heraus, die von ihrer Reichweite und Bedeutung die sonstigen, oft kurzlebigen Publikationsexperimente bei Weitem übertreffen. Diese beiden Leitorgane der Bewegung sind wesentlich für die Verbreitung des Expressionismus als Kunstströmung verantwortlich, und vor allem Der Sturm prägt bis heute das Bild, das Wissenschaft und Öffent...
Sterven in het bed waarin ik geboren ben
De schilder en boer Felix de Boeck (1898-1995) presenteerde zich graag als mystiek aangelegde eenling. Op zijn boerderij in Drogenbos, nabij Brussel, leefde hij op afstand van de artistieke ontwikkelingen in de hoofdstad. In tv-programma’s als Ten huize van of in zijn memoires ‘Mijn leven en werk’ benadrukte hij dat hij wilde ‘sterven in het bed waarin ik geboren ben’. Toch verwierp hij het romantische beeld van de schilderende boer. Het boerenbestaan was voor hem juist een manier om zijn onafhankelijkheid als kunstenaar te waarborgen. De Boeck maakte als volwassene twee wereldoorlogen mee. Hij ontving een groot aantal schilders, dichters en politici op zijn boerderij en maakte por...
Handbook on Diversity and Inclusion Indices
This Handbook on Diversity and Inclusion Indices critically examines many of the popular and frequently cited indices related to DEI benchmarking and progress tracking. The goal is to provide a better understanding of the indices’ construction, strengths and weaknesses, intended applications, contribution to research and progress towards diversity and equity goals.
2020
Volume 10 examines how the innovative impulses that came from Italy were creatively merged with indigenous traditions and how many national variants of Futurism emerged from this fusion. Ten essays investigate various aspects of Italian Futurism and its links to Austria, Georgia, France, Hungary and Portugual and in fields such as Typography, Olfaction, Photography. Section 2 examines seven examples of caricatures and satires of Futurism in the contemporary press, followed by Section 3, reporting on the Archiv der Avantgarden (AdA) in Dresden. Section 4 communicates bibliographic details of 120 book publications on Futurism in the period 2017-2020, including exhibition catalogues, conference proceedings and editions.
Geschichte des Rassismus und des Antirassismus in Luxemburg von 1970 bis 2011
Rassismus ist ein komplexes und vielseitiges Phänomen, das sich auf verschiedene Arten manifestieren kann. Auch im Großherzogtum Luxemburg, das sich durch eine multikulturelle Gesellschaft auszeichnet, sind rassistische Phänomene zu beobachten. Das vorliegende Buch widmet sich dieser Thematik und untersucht, auf welche Weise sich Rassismus in Luxemburg manifestiert hat, d.h. welche Formen, wie etwa Antisemitismus oder Islamophobie, dominiert oder koexistiert haben. Die Studie ist chronologisch gegliedert und behandelt den Zeitraum von 1970 bis 2011. Es wird erläutert, welche Kontinuitäten und Zäsuren in der Entwicklung des Rassismus sowie des Antirassismus festzustellen sind. Die Entstehung rassistischer Gruppierungen und Parteien wird ebenso in Betracht gezogen wie die Gründung antirassistischer Organisationen und die Umsetzung staatlicher Maßnahmen – ohne dabei Polemiken, rassistische Diskurse und gesetzliche Entwicklungen außer Acht zu lassen.
Language Testing, Migration and Citizenship
What is required to achieve civic integration and citizenship in nation states across the world? Should language testing be a part of it? This book addresses the urgent need to develop a fuller conceptual and theoretical basis for language testing than is currently available, to enable widespread discussion of this theme and the concomitant linguistic and cultural requirements. The policy proposals for civic integration have so far been conducted almost entirely at a national level, and with little regard for the experiences of a countries with long traditions of migration, such as the USA, Canada, the UK or Australia. At the same time, EU enlargment and the ongoing rise in the rate of migration into and across Europe suggest that these issues will continue to grow in importance. This book raises the level of discussion to take account of international developments and to promote a more coherent and soundly based debate. It will appeal to researchers and academics working in sociolinguistics and language education, as well as those working on language policy.
