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The Book of Hours and the Body
This book explores our corporeal connections to the past by considering what three theoretical approaches - somaesthetics, posthumanism, and the uncanny - may reveal about both premodern and postmodern terms of embodiment. It takes as its point of departure a selection of fifteenth-century northern European Books of Hours - evocative objects designed at once to inscribe social status, to strengthen religious commitment, to entertain, to stimulate emotions, and to encourage discomfiting self-scrutiny. Studying their kaleidoscopically strange, moving, humorous, disturbing, and imaginative pages not only enables a window into relationships among bodies, images, and things in the past but also in our own internet era, where surprisingly popular memes drawn from such manuscripts constitute a part of our own visual culture. In negotiating theoretical, post-theoretical, and historical concerns, this book aims to contribute to an emerging and much-needed intersectional social history of art. It will be of interest to scholars working in art history, medieval studies, Renaissance/early modern studies, gender studies, the history of the book, posthumanism, aesthetics, and the body.
Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance
For the first time, the pioneering book that launched the study of art and curiosity cabinets is available in English. Julius von Schlosser’s Die Kunst- und Wunderkammern der Spätrenaissance (Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance) is a seminal work in the history of art and collecting. Originally published in German in 1908, it was the first study to interpret sixteenth- and seventeenth-century cabinets of wonder as precursors to the modern museum, situating them within a history of collecting going back to Greco-Roman antiquity. In its comparative approach and broad geographical scope, Schlosser’s book introduced an interdisciplinary and global perspective to the study of ...
Pictures of Poverty
From Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist to George Sims's How the Poor Live, illustrated accounts of poverty were en vogue in Victorian Britain. Poverty was also a popular subject on the screen, whether in dramatic retellings of well-known stories or in 'documentary' photographs taken in the slums. London and its street life were the preferred setting for George Robert Sims's rousing ballads and the numerous magic lantern slide series and silent films based on them. Sims was a popular journalist and dramatist, whose articles, short stories, theatre plays and ballads discussed overcrowding, drunkenness, prostitution and child poverty in dramatic and heroic episodes from the lives and deaths of the...
Thinking of the Medieval
The mid-twentieth century gave rise to a rich array of new approaches to the study of the Middle Ages by both professional medievalists and those more well-known from other pursuits, many of whom continue to exert their influence over politics, art, and history today. Attending to the work of a diverse and transnational group of intellectuals – Hannah Arendt, Erich Auerbach, W. E. B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, Erwin Panofsky, Simone Weil, among others – the essays in this volume shed light on these thinkers in relation to one another and on the persistence of their legacies in our own time. This interdisciplinary collection gives us a fuller and clearer sense of how these figures made some of their most enduring contributions with medieval culture in mind. Thinking of the Medieval is a timely reminder of just how vital the Middle Ages have been in shaping modern thought.
Psychosomatic Imagery
This book explores the potential of specific photographic images for reflecting on experiences of mental disorders. Instead of looking at photographs of (people suffering from) mental disorders, this volume aspires to comprehend the complexities of such conditions through photographic lexicons, metaphors, and practices. For this book, a mental disorder is not to be seen as a dysfunction or impairment, but a state in which the sustaining balance of stable and unstable mind is unsettled, which may induce mental/bodily disturbances. The term “psychosomatic” refers to the interaction of the mind (psyche) with the body (soma); it refers to their co-dependence. By the term “Psychosomatic Ima...
Kunstgeschichte an Polytechnischen Instituten, Technischen Hochschulen und Technischen Universitäten
Der Tagungsband versammelt erstmals Beiträge internationaler AutorInnen zum Thema "Kunstgeschichte an Polytechniken, Technischen Hochschulen und Technischen Universitäten" im deutschen Sprachraum. Inhaltlich reicht der Bogen von der Frühzeit des Fachs zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart. Kunstgeschichte ist ein Grundlagenfach für eine zeitgemäße Architekturausbildung. Angesichts ihrer zentralen Bedeutung überrascht es, dass die Geschichte, die Positionen und die Perspektiven des Fachs an den Polytechniken, an den Technischen Hochschulen und an den Technischen Universitäten bis heute unzureichend erforscht sind. Dies gilt für den Stellenwert im wissenschaftlichen Fachdis...
Art Historiography and Iconologies Between West and East
This volume explores a basic question in the historiography of art: the extent to which iconology was a homogenous research method in its own immutable right. By contributing to the rejection of the universalizing narrative, these case studies argue that there were many strands of iconology. Methods that differed from the ‘canonised’ approach of Panofsky were proposed by Godefridus Johannes Hoogewerff and Hans Sedlmayr. Researchers affiliated with the Warburg Institute in London also chose to distance themselves from Panofsky’s work. Poland, in turn, was the breeding ground for yet another distinct variety of iconology. In Communist Czechoslovakia there were attempts to develop a ‘Ma...
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Populäre Bildkulturen der Vormoderne
Die Auseinandersetzung mit Ausdrucksformen von Popularität steht seit einigen Jahren vermehrt im Fokus der kulturwissenschaftlichen Forschung. Ausgehend von der Gegenwärtigkeit und Ubiquität der Populärkultur - gemeinhin als Proprium der Modernität verstanden und gedacht - fragt der vorliegende Sammelband erstmals grundsätzlich nach der Applizierbarkeit der Kategorie ,,populär" auf die Epochen Mittelalter und Frühe Neuzeit. Die zeitgenössische Theoriebildung zur Popkultur bildet den Ausgangspunkt für die versammelten Beiträge, in interdisziplinärer Perspektive sowohl auf übergreifend theoretisch-methodischer Ebene als auch in Form von Fallstudien Popularisierungsprozesse zu bele...
