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Framing History in East-Central Europe and Beyond
During the 1970s 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 countries on three continents. The funding of the Ministry enables to connect senior scholars with young scholars, to help young PhD students, to participate in and to benefit from the scientific connection of experienced researchers, and to get in touch with the national scientific community by `sniffing scientific air', as the Austrians like to say. Furthermore, it aims to avoid prejudices, and to spread a better understanding and knowledge about Austria and Central Europe by promoting scientific exchange.
Biological Motion
A captivating exploration of the changing definitions of life in biology Biological Motion studies the foundational relationship between motion and life. To answer the question, “What is Life?,” prize-winning historian of science Janina Wellmann engages in a transdisciplinary investigation of motion as the most profound definition of living existence. For decades, information and structure have dominated the historiography of the life sciences with its prevailing focus on DNA structure and function. Now more than ever, motion is a crucial theme of basic biological research. Tracing motion from Aristotle’s animal soul to molecular motors, and from medical soft robotics to mathematical analysis, Wellmann locates biological motion at the intersection of knowledge domains and scientific and cultural practices. She offers signposts to mark the sites where researchers, technologies, ideas, and practices opened up new paths in the constitution of the phenomenon of motion. An ambitious rethinking of the life sciences, Biological Motion uncovers the secret life of movement and offers a new account of what it means to be alive.
The Sculptural in the (Post-)Digital Age
Digital technologies have profoundly impacted the arts and expanded the field of sculpture since the 1950s. Art history, however, continues to pay little attention to sculptural works that are conceived and ‘materialized’ using digital technologies. How can we rethink the artistic medium in relation to our technological present and its historical precursors? A number of theoretical approaches discuss the implications of the so-called ‘Aesthetics of the Digital’, referring, above all, to screen-based phenomena. For the first time, this publication brings together international and trans-historical research perspectives to explore how digital technologies re-configure the understanding of sculpture and the sculptural leading into the (post-)digital age. Up-to-date research on digital technologies’ expansion of the concept of sculpture Linking historical sculptural debates with discourse on the new media and (post-)digital culture
Objects as History in Twentieth-century German Art
This book provides an overview of twentieth-century German art, focusing on some of the period's key works. In Peter Chametzky's innovative approach, these works become representatives rather than representations of twentieth-century history. Chametzky draws on both scholarly and popular sources to demonstrate how the works (and in some cases, the artists themselves) interacted with, and even enacted, historical events, processes, and ideas.--[book jacket].
Dead or Alive!
The image is an ontological paradox; it is made of dead matter, yet appears to be alive. For millennia, artists have created images of the living world - images that are static and yet possess the power to bring to life a frozen moment in time. While this tension has constituted a fundamental challenge for as long as theories on the nature of images have existed, recent scholarship has rekindled interest in the question of what images 'do to us'. Despite the rational discourse of Modernity, we must acknowledge that we view images as half-living entities. This book addresses the perpetual relevance of images' enigmatic life-likeness through studies that engage with a variety of visual materia...
Der populäre Künstler
Der Berner Künstler Bernhard Luginbühl ist nicht nur der Produzent seiner Kunstwerke, sondern auch deren Verkäufer. Als Kurator seiner Ausstellungen erkennt Luginbühl die Bedeutung der Eventkultur, lange bevor der Begriff existiert. Der hehre Ernst der Kunst wird in seinen Werken zugunsten der Freude an der Unterhaltung des Publikums durchbrochen: Für die Kinder fertigt er Spielplastiken mit Rutschbahnen, für die Erwachsenen lässt er mit den rollenden und lärmenden Kugeln der kinetischen Plastiken Jahrmarktstimmung aufkommen, und mit den knisternden Verbrennungsaktionen zieht er alle in Bann. In seinem Skulpturenpark in Mötschwil, wo Chaos mit gewollter Überfülle kämpft, setzt er seine inszenatorische Begabung um. Der Selbstdarsteller mit dem unverblümten, kernigen Stil behält mit seinen Publikationen stets die Deutungshoheit über das eigene Schaffen. Jochen Hesse, der Autor des Werkkataloges der Plastiken des Künstlers, legt im vorliegenden Buch dar, warum Luginbühl populär wurde und weshalb seine Bekanntheit bis heute anhält. Erstmals werden OEuvre und Künstlerpersönlichkeit in einer unabhängigen Publikation kritisch gewürdigt.
Bastian Börsig
Bastian Börsig (b. Schwäbisch Hall, 1984; lives and works in Karlsruhe) toys with the beholder's associations. Archaic, emotional, and playful, his pictures limn situations in a few adroit strokes; immersing ourselves in his narratives of agitation, it dawns on us that everything is not what it first seemed. This book, the artist's first monograph, presents works of the past four years. With an essay by Marc Wellmann and a preface by Isabella Gerstner.
2005
Annually published since 1930, the International Bibliography of Historical Sciences (IBOHS) is an international bibliography of the most important historical monographs and periodical articles published throughout the world, which deal with history from the earliest to the most recent times. The IBOHS is thus currently the only continuous bibliography of its kind covering such a broad period of time, spectrum of subjects and geographical range. The works are arranged systematically according to period, region or historical discipline, and alphabetically according to authors names or, in the case of anonymous works, by the characteristic main title word. The bibliography contains a geographical index and indexes of persons and authors.
