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Renaissance and Baroque Art and Culture in the Eastern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1506-1696)
This monograph serves as an introduction to the art, architecture and literary culture of the Eastern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th and 17th centuries. The geographical area under discussion comprises the regions of contemporary Lithuania, western Belarus and western Ukraine. The introduction of the Renaissance and Baroque classical revival into these lands is considered here within the political context of nationalistic and religious loyalties, as well as economic status and class. The central discussion focuses on the issue of national identity and religious loyalty in the inter-relation between the Byzantine inheritance of the Lithuanian and Ruthenian populace and the Poloniz...
Heritage Counts
The idea of heritage as a “capital of irreplaceable cultural, social and economic value” was already present in the European Charter of the Architectural Heritage, adopted by the Council of Europe in 1975 (par.3). Today, this discourse is getting increasing attention on the research agenda. Some argue that, although heritage is always valued highly, the current interest in the impact of heritage is caused by the democratisation of heritage and the increased importance of heritage in today’s society. Others argue that a universal scarcity of funds for heritage management and conservation is the reason to give it its proper attention. Therefore, the Raymond Lemaire International Centre f...
Urban Heritage in Europe
Urban heritage, which is part of the conceptual expansion of cultural heritage, has become an extraordinarily complex notion. Any aspect of urban life and experience can become heritage and this heritage is then continuously reinterpreted and exploited as a source not only for a city’s identification but also for its cultural and economic innovation. This book provides a detailed overview of Central European urban heritage. It examines the key aspects of urban heritage –tangible/monumental, natural/landscape, world heritage/urban quarter and heritage experience/dark heritage. The ‘regimes of urban heritage’ approach retraces 200 years of the development of European urban heritage to ...
Kulturotropia
Autorka z jednej strony zwraca uwagę na rolę, jaką kultura może odgrywać w teoriach i modelach rozwoju lokalnego, z drugiej zaś wprowadza czytelnika w realia miast kreatywnych, miast eventów. Pokazuje zagraniczne i polskie przykłady tworzenia dzielnic kulturalnych i klastrów kreatywnych, a także wykorzystywania kultury w projektach związanych z rewitalizacją obszarów zdegradowanych oraz budowaniu jakości życia w mieście. Z recenzji prof. dr hab. Grażyny Prawelskiej-Skrzypek, Instytut Spraw Publicznych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego Może imponować swoboda i wnikliwość, z jaką Autorka porusza się w omawianej problematyce. Czytelnik znajdzie tu nie tylko omówienia różnych poglądów i ujęć, lecz także przekonujące przedstawienie ewolucji podejścia do rozwoju miast i syntetyczny opis konsekwencji wdrażania różnych konceptów. (…) W rezultacie powstało oryginalne i unikalne w polskiej literaturze kompendium wiedzy o roli kultury w rozwoju współczesnych miast. Jest to praca dobrze przemyślana i ułożona, starannie zredagowana i napisana ładnym językiem. Z recenzji prof. dr hab. Jerzego Hausnera, Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie
Embodiments of Power
The period of the baroque (late sixteenth to mid-eighteenth centuries) saw extensive reconfiguration of European cities and their public spaces. Yet, this transformation cannot be limited merely to signifying a style of art, architecture, and decor. Rather, the dynamism, emotionality, and potential for grandeur that were inherent in the baroque style developed in close interaction with the need and desire of post-Reformation Europeans to find visual expression for the new political, confessional, and societal realities. Highly illustrated, this volume examines these complex interrelationships among architecture and art, power, religion, and society from a wide range of viewpoints and localities. From Krakow to Madrid and from Naples to Dresden, cities were reconfigured visually as well as politically and socially. Power, in both its political and architectural guises, had to be negotiated among constituents ranging from monarchs and high churchmen to ordinary citizens. Within this process, both rulers and ruled were transformed: Europe left behind the last vestiges of the medieval and arrived on the threshold of the modern.
Urban Change in Central Europe
The changes that Central European cities have undergone since 1989 deserve a complex, interdisciplinary analysis that offers deep insight into the specific nature of the transformation taking place in the region. This book presents a multidimensional and cross-disciplinary case study of Kraków, focusing on the changes taking place in Central Europe over the last three decades. This book answers the question of how the once neglected city of Kraków has transformed into a thriving global tourist destination, an attractive investment market, and a European leader of shared services. It examines political, socio-economic, cultural, and architectural development of the city against the ongoing ...
