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The Devil's Wall
Legend has it that twenty miles of volcanic rock rising through the landscape of northern Bohemia was the work of the devil, who separated the warring Czechs and Germans by building a wall. The nineteenth-century invention of the Devil's Wall was evidence of rising ethnic tensions. In interwar Czechoslovakia, Sudeten German nationalists conceived a radical mission to try to restore German influence across the region. Mark Cornwall tells the story of Heinz Rutha, an internationally recognized figure in his day, who was the pioneer of a youth movement that emphasized male bonding in its quest to reassert German dominance over Czech space. Through a narrative that unravels the threads of Rutha'...
Meister Michael
Meister Michael von Wiener Neustadt wurde um 1350 geboren und ist in der bisherigen Literatur vor allem unter dem Namen Michael Chnab bekannt. Er ist der erste Baumeister innerhalb der Kunstgeschichte Osterreichs, dem ein Oeuvre zugewiesen werden kann. Gleichzeitig ist er der erste nachweisbare Hofarchitekt der osterreichischen Landesfursten. Ob er daruber hinaus auch die Leitung der Bauhutte von St. Stephan innehatte, ist umstritten.
The Geometry of Creation
The flowering of Gothic architecture depended to a striking extent on the use of drawing as a tool of design. By drawing precise "blueprints" with simple tools such as the compass and straightedge, Gothic draftsmen were able to develop a linearized architecture of unprecedented complexity and sophistication. Examination of their surviving drawings can provide valuable and remarkably intimate information about the Gothic design process. Gothic drawings include compass pricks, uninked construction lines, and other telltale traces of the draftsman's geometrically based working method. The proportions of the drawings, moreover, are those actually intended by the designer, uncompromised by errors...
Die Philipps-Universität Marburg im Nationalsozialismus
Die gewahlte Darstellungsform beschreitet neue Wege: rund 300 Dokumente, sorgfaltig eingeleitet, editorisch aufgeschlusselt und mit zeitgenossischen Photographien illustriert, vermitteln ein anschauungsgesattigtes Bild der Marburger Hochschule unter dem Nationalsozialismus. Der methodische Zugriff erfolgt uber die universitaren Leitungsgremien. Rektor und Kurator waren mit samtlichen Fragen der Personalpolitik, der Forschung und Lehre befaat, auf ihren Schreibtischen landeten Berufungslisten, Beschwerden und Denunziationen. Zugleich ruckt die Universitat als Instrument der Wissenschafts- und Forschungssteuerung in den Blick. Marburger Professoren beteiligten sich am aKriegseinsatz der Geiste...
Die Biographie - Mode oder Universalie?
In the field of art, concepts in which a work has been considered from the perspective the artists themselves have long been in fashion. They are reflected in how highly artists' statements are valued, and characterize the working methods of art history and criticism. On this basis, the publication looks at the different genres of the biography and its periphery. It examines monographs that connect life and work in the form of an artist's biography, as well as the "masquerade" of the autobiography and what artists say about themselves and their work in interviews or in programmatic statements. It also takes an in-depth look at the memoirs of art historians and the academic biography of the scholar.
Gustav and Alma Mahler
This revised edition of Garland's 1989 publication updates the core bibliography on Gustave Mahler (as well as his spouse and fellow composer Alma Mahler) by incorporating new research gathered over the past dozen years on his life and professional works. Gustave Mahler, renowned conductor and composer of symphonies and song cycles, is one of the foremost musical figures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His symphonies continue to be widely performed and studied through the twenty-first century. Organized in sections according to subject matter, references are arranged alphabetically by the names of authors or editors. Filler’s research has produced sources for musicologists and students in nineteen languages, offering a resource that expands traditional English-language music scholarship.
Commemorating the Dead in Late Medieval Strasbourg
The Book of Donors for Strasbourg cathedral is an extraordinary medieval document dating from ca. 1320-1520, with 6,954 entries from artisan, merchant and aristocratic classes. These individuals listed gifts to the cathedral construction fund given in exchange for prayers for the donors' souls. The construction administrators (the Oeuvre Notre-Dame) also built a chapel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary in the nave that housed the book and showcased prayers and masses for the building benefactors. Chapel, book and west front project formed a three part commemorative strategy that appealed to the faithful of the city and successfully competed against other religious establishments also offe...
The Year's Work in Librarianship
A contribution to the literature of librarianship ... A yearly methodical survey of current publications and activities. cf. Pref.
