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The Centre as Margin: Eccentric Perspectives on Art
'The Centre as Margin. Eccentric Perspectives on Art' is a multi-authored volume of collected essays that answer the challenge of thinking Art History, and the Arts in a broader sense, from a liminal point of view. Its main goal is thus to discuss the margin from the centre - drawing on its concomitance within study themes and subjects, ontological and epistemological positions, or research methodologies themselves. Marginality, eccentricity, liminality, and superfluity are all part of a dynamic relationship between centre and margin(s) that will be approached and discussed, from the point of view of disciplines as different and as close as art history, philosophy, literature and design, fro...
Hybrid Renaissance
Hybrid Renaissance introduces the idea that the Renaissance in Italy, elsewhere in Europe, and in the world beyond Europe is an example of cultural hybridization. The two key concepts used in this book are “hybridization” and “Renaissance”. Roughly speaking, hybridity refers to something new that emerges from the combination of diverse older elements. (The term “hybridization” is preferable to “hybridity” because it refers to a process rather than to a state, and also because it encourages the writer and the readers alike to think in terms of degree: where there is more or less, rather than presence versus absence.) The book begins with a discussion of the concept of cultural...
Mudejarismo and Moorish Revival in Europe
Mudejarismo and Moorish Revival in Europe offers a critical examination of the reception of Ibero-Islamic architecture in medieval Iberia and 19th-century Europe. Taking selected case studies as a starting point, the volume challenges prevalent readings of interconnected cultural and artistic phenomena.
Spain is Different. La restauración monumental durante el segundo franquismo
Tras el eslogan que da título al libro se articulan trece capítulos que profundizan en la restauración monumental llevada a cabo por instituciones y arquitectos en los años del desarrollismo (1959-1975). Confluyen varias líneas de estudio: la vida y obra de los arquitectos, las intervenciones en regiones españolas con casos concretos junto a nociones teóricas acerca del nacionalismo y el turismo, dos factores esenciales para comprender las intervenciones realizadas en este periodo. Las distintas aportaciones presentan una amplia documentación gráfica –planos y alzados procedentes de proyectos originales, documentos de archivos personales de arquitectos, así como fotografías de época, a veces confrontadas con imágenes del estado actual de los inmuebles– que complementa los textos, fruto de la compilación y tratamiento sistemático de datos. Muestra finalmente las singularidades de la praxis restauradora en una época de significativos cambios económicos, sociales y culturales.
Architectural Temperance
Architectural Temperance examines relations between Bourbon Spain and papal Rome (1700-1759) through the lens of cultural politics. With a focus on key Spanish architects sent to study in Rome by the Bourbon Kings, the book also discusses the establishment of a program of architectural education at the newly founded Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. Victor Deupi explores why a powerful nation like Spain would temper its own building traditions with the more cosmopolitan trends associated with Rome; often at the expense of its own national and regional traditions. Through the inclusion of previously unpublished documents and images that shed light on the theoretical debates which shaped eighteenth-century architecture in Rome and Madrid, Architectural Temperance provides readers with new insights into the cultural history of early modern Spain.
Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World (2 vols.)
Following the tradition and style of the acclaimed Index Islamicus, the editors have created this new Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World. The editors have surveyed and annotated a wide range of books and articles from collected volumes and journals published in all European languages (except Turkish) between 1906 and 2011. This comprehensive bibliography is an indispensable tool for everyone involved in the study of material culture in Muslim societies.
Pearls for the Crown
In the age of European expansion, pearls became potent symbols of imperial supremacy. Pearls for the Crown demonstrates how European art legitimated racialized hierarchies and inequitable notions about humanity and nature that still hold sway today. When Christopher Columbus encountered pristine pearl beds in southern Caribbean waters in 1498, he procured the first source of New World wealth for the Spanish Crown, but he also established an alternative path to an industry that had remained outside European control for centuries. Centering her study on a selection of key artworks tied to the pearl industry, Mónica Domínguez Torres examines the interplay of materiality, labor, race, and powe...
TEATROS ROMANOS EN ESPAÑA Y PORTUGAL
Este libro colectivo, lleno de interrogantes y de respuestas abiertas o contradictorias, invita a reflexionar sobre los múltiples condicionantes y problemas que encierra la actuación sobre el Patrimonio Cultural y la eficacia de las políticas y normas nacionales e internacionales que inciden sobre el mismo y su protección. La difícil coordinación entre los dispares instrumentos que lo rigen y los numerosos agentes que se proyectan sobre él, queda manifestada a través de edificios espectaculares como son los teatros romanos que tan acertadamente se han seleccionado aquí para exponer con profundidad aspectos fundamentales de toda esta problemática.Se aborda la restauración monumenta...
