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The Shared Space of Play
The similarities between traditional games in different regions of the world, from past to present, arouse both awe and curiosity. The playful - yet educational - discovery of these practices offers the opportunity to observe the experience of play as a space for similarities between cultures. When research on play conducted with children is enriched by the recollections of play from parents and grandparents, especially in the context of a multicultural classroom, a choral narrative emerges, laying down the basis for intercultural education. Children discover the 'shared space of play', where they can meet and relish, together with teachers, the richness of cultural diversity, and also learn more about prejudice and Othering processes.
Picturing Performance
There has long been a need to introduce performing-arts enthusiasts and students to the fascinating field of iconography, both as manifested in art history and in its more pragmatic or applied forms. Yet relatively little systematic effort has been made to collect and interpret centuries of such visual evidence in the light of the best available art-historical information, combined with corroborating textual documentation and insights from the histories of performance disciplines. Aspiring iconographers of the performing arts need to be aware that there are often several levels of interpretation which great works of visual art will sustain. This book explores these levels of interpretation: ...
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Pleasure and Leisure in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age
Jan Huizinga and Roger Caillois have already taught us to realize how important games and play have been for pre-modern civilization. Recent research has begun to acknowledge the fundamental importance of these aspects in cultural, religious, philosophical, and literary terms. This volume expands on the traditional approach still very much focused on the materiality of game (toys, cards, dice, falcons, dolls, etc.) and acknowledges that game constituted also a form of coming to terms with human existence in an unstable and volatile world determined by universal randomness and fortune. Whether considering blessings or horse fighting, falconry or card games, playing with dice or dolls, we can ...
Almanach der Universität Mozarteum Salzburg
Der Almanach ist als Fortführung des seit 1881 herausgegebenen Jahresberichts ein Nachschlagewerk in allen Belangen der Universität Mozarteum Salzburg und bietet eine Leistungsschau des jeweils vergangenen Studienjahrs. Der Sammelband dokumentiert die vielfältigen Aktivitäten der Kunstuniversität. Er beinhaltet neben Daten und Fakten Beiträge zu Entwicklung und Organisation der Universität, einen umfangreichen Veranstaltungs- und Publikationsrückblick, Berichte über Aktivitäten einzelner Bereiche sowie Interviews und eine beeindruckende Aufstellung aller Errungenschaften rund um das Mozarteum.
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Der Gordische Knoten
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