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Vanishing Paradise
Vanishing paradise" offers a fresh take on the modernist primitivism of the French painter Paul Gauguin, the exoticism of the American John LaFarge, and the elite tourism of the American writer Henry Adams. Childs explores how these artists wrestled with the elusiveness of paradise and portrayed colonial Tahiti in ways both mythic and modern.
Between Understanding and Trust
This book identifies and analyses the public understanding of science and technology and makes an important new contribution towards restoring public faith in scientific authority.
The South Sea Island
When the first European explorers ventured into the unknown Pacific Ocean, their minds were filled with tales of remote, paradisiacal islands. Hopeful ideas of noble savages, ecological balance, and immense riches gave them the courage to search for a new world – even when faced with the unimaginable. The South Sea Island – A Geography of Pleasure is a journey through the history of ideas and literature over three centuries of European and American narratives about islands, oceans, and archipelagos. Literary scholar Frits Andersen reads and analyses travel accounts, paintings, films, and novels from the 18th century up until the present day by visual artists and authors including Paul Ga...
Jews and Christians in Denmark
In Jews and Christians in Denmark: From the Middle Ages to Recent Times, ca. 1100–1948, Martin Schwarz Lausten investigates how the Church and society followed the European antijudaistic tradition using insults, adversities and attempted conversions during Catholic times from around 1100 and Protestant times starting around 1536. In spite of the tolerant policies of integration initiated by the government beginning in the 1800’s, anti-Semitic movements arose among priests, professors and local authorities. However, during the German occupation (1940–1945) priests and many others assisted the 7,000 Danish Jews in their escape to Sweden. Based on Jewish and Christian sources, Jewish reactions to life in Denmark are also examined.
Twenty Israeli Composers
Twenty of Israel's leading art-music composers discuss the interaction of inspiration, method and cultural context in their work, revealing both international and national influence and scope. Israel’s contemporary art music reflects a modern society that is an intricate fabric of national and ethnic origins, languages and dialects, customs and traditions—a heterogeneous culture of cultures. It is a rich and distinctive environment—at once ancient and modern, spiritual and secular, traditional and progressive. Twenty Israeli Composers, the first published collection of interviews with Israeli composers, explores this developing and distinctive music culture. The featured composers have...
Sydhavsøen
Da de første europæiske opdagelsesrejsende sejlede over det ukendte Stillehav, var deres skibe lastet med fortællinger om fjerne paradisiske øer. Forestillinger om ædle vilde, økologisk balance og enorme rigdomme gav europæerne modet og håbet til at lede efter en ny verden – også når drømmene overgik virkeligheden. Sydhavsøen – nydelsens geografi er en idé- og litteraturhistorisk rejse i sporet på tre århundreders europæiske og amerikanske fortællinger om øen, havet og øhavet. Litteraten Frits Andersen læser og analyserer rejseberetninger, malerier, film og romaner fra 1700-tallet og frem til i dag af kunstnere og forfattere som Paul Gauguin, Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jules Verne, Thor Heyerdahl og Marlon Brando. Ud af disse læsninger – og med blik for nydelse, længsel og fornuft – opstår en helt ny litteraturhistorie for Stillehavets forsvindende øer. Samtidig tilbyder bogen stærke historiske forbilleder, vi aktuelt kan bruge til at forstå og tænke nye svar på globale politiske og klimamæssige udfordringer. Modtager af Georg Brandes-prisen 2018 Nomineret til Weekendavisens Litteraturpris 2018
Ethnologia Scandinavica
Vol. for 1971 contains papers presented at the 1st International Symposium for Ethnological Food Research in Lund, 1970.
The Seekers
"This book offers the reader brief but adequate biographies of Gauguin, Van Gogh and Cézanne ... and for those readers who wish to go a step further and understand how it was that these three men together began one of the most important art movements in history, the effect of which is to be found today in every walk of life, we offer the story of the dramatic influence which each exercised on the other"--
Sustainable Development of Denmark in the World, 1970–2020
This book provides a holistic overview of the history of sustainable development in Denmark over the last fifty years, covering a host of issues central to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): ending poverty; ensuring inclusive and equitable education; reducing inequality; making cities and settlements inclusive, safe and resilient; and fostering responsible production and consumption patterns, to name a few. It argues for a new framework of sustainability history, one that is truly global in outlook. As such, it explores what truly global sustainable development would look like. It considers how economic growth has been the driver for prosperity in the global north, and considers whether sustainable development and continued economic growth are irreconcilable, and what the future of sustainable development initiatives in Denmark might look like.
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