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A Passion for Art
Ernst Beyeler (1921-2010) was a titan of the international art scene in the twentieth century. Born in Basel, Switzerland, he began his career as an apprentice in an antiquarian bookstore, eventually taking over the business and shifting his focus from books to dealing and collecting art. Through his discerning eye for art, his close relationships with many of the twentieth century's great artists, and his role in the foundation of Art Basel, the world's largest art fair, Beyeler transformed his hometown into a hub for international art. Published in English for the first time, A Passion for Art tells Beyeler's unusually personal story, through interviews with Christophe Mory. Beyeler descri...
Helena Augusta
"Helena, the mother of the first Christian emperor Constantine, is best known for the last two years of her life, when she traveled around the Eastern Mediterranean, and for something that, in all likelihood, she did not do: the discovery of the True Cross relic. Using a vast range of sources, from textual and epigraphical to visual, and an array of archaeological insights from the places Helena lived at or visited, this book instead investigates Helena in the round, taking seriously the ruptures in her life course and her changing positions within the imperial and female networks of her time. The book follows Helena's life, the majority of which was spent in the third century and during the period of the tetrarchy, and explores the different ways in which she was commemorated after her death, up to the late sixth century. It wrestles Helena's historical significance back from medieval legends, to demonstrate the development and purpose of her role within Constantinian politics and to chart her meandering impact on the image and behavior of the Christian empress in the late Roman world"--
Algae and Sustainable Technologies
Algal and sustainable technologies: Bioenergy, Nannotechnology and Green chemistry is an interdisciplinary overview of the world’s major problems; water scarcity, clean environment and energy and their sustenance remedy measures using microalgae. It comprehensively presents the way to tackle the socio-economic issues including food, feed, fuel, medicine and health and also entails the untapped potential of microalgae in environmental management, bioenergy solution and sustainable synthesis of pharmaceutical and nutraceutical products. This book basically emphasizes the success of algae as wonderful feed stocks of future and provides upto date information and sustainable and recreational ou...
The Wandering Holy Man
Barsauma was a fifth-century Syrian ascetic, archimandrite, and leader of monks, notorious for his extreme asceticism and violent anti-Jewish campaigns across the Holy Land. Although Barsauma was a powerful and revered figure in the Eastern church, modern scholarship has widely dismissed him as a thug of peripheral interest. Until now, only the most salacious bits of the Life of Barsauma—a fascinating collection of miracles that Barsauma undertook across the Near East—had been translated. This pioneering study includes the first full translation of the Life and a series of studies by scholars employing a range of methods to illuminate the text from different angles and contexts. This is the authoritative source on this influential figure in the history of the church and his life, travels, and relations with other religious groups.
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Repräsentation und Reenactment
Die Frommigkeit des spaten Mittelalters scheint in vielen ihrer Facetten fern und fremd. Volker Leppin erschliesst sie neu mit Hilfe der Begriffe "Reprasentation" und "Reenactment". In beiden geht es um die Wahrnehmung der Gegenwart Gottes in der spatmittelalterlichen Kultur: als deren an bestimmte Orte oder Personen gebundene Gegebenheit in der Reprasentation oder als aktiver Nachvollzug im Reenactment. So fuhrt der Autor quellengesattigt durch bildende Kunst und Gebetspraxis, visionare Erfahrung und literarische Gestaltung. Spezifisch religiose Phanomene kommen ebenso zur Sprache wie asthetische Formung. Es entsteht ein facettenreiches Bild spatmittelalterlicher Frommigkeitskultur und zugleich ein neuer theoretischer Ansatz zu ihrem Verstandnis. Dieser kann theologische wie kulturwissenschaftliche Forschung gleichermassen anregen und verbinden.
Das spätantike Rom und die stadtrömische Senatsaristokratie (395–455 n. Chr.)
Die spätantike Senatsaristokratie steht seit Längerem im Fokus der Forschung. Es sind eben nicht allein die Kaiser und Heermeister, die die Geschichte der Spätantike prägten. Die hier vorliegende Studie stellt die Frage nach der politischen und gesellschaftlichen Bedeutung der stadtrömischen Senatsaristokratie und des Senats, und zwar für den so wichtigen Zeitraum von 395 bis 455 n. Chr. Die politische Ereignisgeschichte und die Interaktion, Kommunikation und Kooperation mit den politischen Hauptakteuren wird dabei ebenso untersucht wie die zentralen Aspekte der senatorischen Lebensführung, Repräsentation und Distinktion, einschließlich der Christianisierung. Entstanden ist eine Stu...
Surrealism in Paris
"Surrealism arose during the period between the two World Wars and became one of the most influential artistic and literary movements of the twentieth century. Profoundly marked by the senseless experiences of World War I, the Surrealists, under the leadership of André Breton, took off "on a passionate search for freedom in all of its forms." By incorporating the subconscious into the creative process, they developed completely new forms of expression. Simultaneously, they invented radically new ways of exhibiting their art. This presentational tradition is carried on in both private collections and public museums to this day. Featuring exemplary works by prominent Surrealists, from Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, and Joan Miró to René Magritte, Yves Tanguy, and Meret Oppenheim, the reader will experience characteristically Surrealist modi operandi as well as Surrealist strategies. It is not only contemporary artists who find sources of inspiration and contemporary references in Surrealism."--PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION.
Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper's world-famous, instantly recognizable paintings articulate an idiosyncratic view of modern life, unfolding in a world of lonely lighthouses, gas stations, movie theaters, bars and hotel rooms. With his impressive subjects, independent pictorial vocabulary and virtuoso play of colors, Hopper's work continues to this day to color our memory and imaginary of the United States in the first half of the 20th century. Hopper began his career as an illustrator and became famous around the globe for his oil paintings. These paintings testify to the artist's great interest in the effects of color and his mastery in depicting light and shadow, at work whether the artist was painting alienated figures in dreamlike interiors or desolate American landscapes. Edward Hopper: A Fresh Look on Landscape is published to accompany a major exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler of Hopper's iconic images of the vast American landscape. The catalog gathers together paintings, watercolors and drawings made by the artist between the 1910s and the 1960s, and supplements them with essays by Erika Doss, David Lubin and Katharina Rüppell, focused on the subject of depicting the landscape.
