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Goethe's Faust I Outlined
In a new approach to Goethe's Faust I, Evanghelia Stead extensively discusses Moritz Retzsch's twenty-six outline prints (1816) and how their spin-offs made the unfathomable play available to larger reader communities through copying and extensive distribution circuits, including bespoke gifts. The images amply transformed as they travelled throughout Europe and overseas, revealing differences between countries and cultures but also their pliability and resilience whenever remediated. This interdisciplinary investigation evidences the importance of print culture throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in nations involved in competition and conflict. Retzsch's foundational set crucially engenders parody, and inspires the stage, literature, and three-dimensional objects, well beyond common perceptions of print culture's influence. This book is available in open access thanks to an Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) grant.
Displaying Art in the Early Modern Period
From aesthetic promenades in noble palaces to the performativity of religious apparatus, this edited volume reconsiders some of the events, habits and spaces that contributed to defining exhibition practices and shaping the imagery of the exhibition space in the early modern period. The contributors encourage connections between art history, exhibition studies, and architectural history, and explore micro-histories and long-term changes in order to open new perspectives for studying these pioneering exhibition-making practices. Aiming to understand what spaces have done and still do to art, the book explores an underdeveloped area in the field that has yet to trace its interdisciplinary nature and understand its place in the history of art. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, museum studies, exhibition history, and architectural history.
Culture and Diplomacy
Diplomats had multiple tasks: not only negotiating with the representatives of other states, but also mediating culture and knowledge, and not least elaborating reports on their observations of politics, society, and culture. Culture, according to the studies featured in this book, is defined as a complex sphere including aspects like systems of communication, literature, music, arts, education, and the creation of knowledge. This edition containing contributions from six conferences held in Vienna and Istanbul by the Don Juan Archiv Wien focuses on the complex diplomatic and cultural relations between the Ottoman Empire and Europe from the time of the early embassies to Istanbul up to "Tanzimat".
Fruits of the Cross
In this first detailed study of seventeenth-century sepolcri—sacred operas written for court performance on Holy Thursday and Good Friday—Robert L. Kendrick delves into the political and artistic world of Habsburg Vienna, in which music and ritual combined on the stage to produce a thoroughly original art form based on devotion to Christ’s Tomb. Through the use of allegorical characters, the musical dramas ranged from the devotionally intense, to the theologically complex, to the ugly anti-Jewish, but played a unique role in making Passion piety relevant to wider cultural concerns. Fruits of the Cross suggests that understanding the sepolcri has implications for the theatricalization of devotion, the power of allegory, the role of queenship in court ideology, the interplay between visuality and music, and not least the intellectual centrality of music theater to court self-understanding.
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Key Metaphors for History
This book casts a fresh look at what to date has been a relatively unexplored question: the enormous value and usefulness of the metaphor in the understanding and writing of history (and at the historical culture reflected by these metaphors). Mapping a wide range of tropes present in historiography and public discourse, the book identifies some of the key metaphorical resources employed by historians, politicians, and journalists to represent time, history, memory, the past, the present, and the future and examines a selection of analytical concepts of a temporal nature, built upon unmistakeably metaphorical foundations, such as modernity, event, process, revolution, crisis, progress, decli...
Ein Modell für Mozart
Der Band beleuchtet den Werdegang und das Wirken des Komponisten Joseph Friebert (1724–1799), der 1763 als Hof- und Domkapellmeister nach Passau engagiert wurde und dort unter drei Fürstbischöfen das musikalische Leben maßgeblich prägte. Dabei wird der politische, religiöse wie kulturelle Kontext ebenso untersucht wie die Musik- und Theaterpraxis am Hof und bei den reisenden Theatergesellschaften – jene von Felix Berner brachte das Werk 1778 zur Uraufführung. Analysen erfolgen zum Serail, dessen Musik lange als verschollen galt und erst 2005 wiederentdeckt wurde, aber auch zur Tradition der Stücke im orientalischen Serail unter musikalischen, dramaturgischen und stoffgeschichtlichen Perspektiven. Besonderes Interesse gilt der Verbindung zu W. A. Mozarts Zaide (1780).
Serenata and Festa Teatrale in 18th Century Europe
This volume is dedicated to "Serenata and Festa Teatrale in 18th Century Europe", especially to the production of this music-dramatic genre at the courts on the Iberian Peninsula, in Italy, and the Holy Roman Empire where it was an integral part of court ceremonials and a privileged ritual of repraesentatio maiestatis. The 16 studies on patrons and artists, exceptional events and local traditions, reveal highly interesting material for the research on these up to now largely neglected genre. Any approach to these works full of metaphors, symbols and allusions has to take into account the context of the celebration and the resulting multiplicity of aspects: choice of themes, dramaturgical forms, textual and musical structures, vocal and instrumental ensembles, and the various options regarding the stage apparatus. "Serenata and Festa Teatrale in 18th Century Europe", edited by Iskrena Yordanova (Lisbon) and Paologiovanni Maione (Naples), inaugurates the series "Cadernos de Queluz", a subseries of "Specula Spectacula" by Don Juan Archiv Wien.
Die Musikaliensammlung Leopolds I.
Leopold I. (1640–1705) besaß in seiner Bibliotheca cubicularis (Schlafkammerbibliothek) auch eine der wichtigsten Musikaliensammlungen seiner Zeit. Die Teile dieser Sammlung, die noch existieren und als solche identifiziert wurden, befinden sich heute im Wesentlichen als Bestand "Leopoldina" in der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek. Dass Leopolds Sammlung sich nicht geschlossen erhalten hat und die verbliebenen Bände sich nur unter Mühen zur ursprünglichen Bibliotheksordnung in Beziehung setzen lassen, ist das Resultat verschiedener Prozesse des Transfers in andere Sammlungszusammenhänge und von Umsignierungen über die Jahrhunderte hinweg. Der vorliegenden Publikation gelingt mittels eines komplexen archivalischen Instrumentariums unter Berücksichtigung u. a. von Einbänden, Datierungen, Gattungsbegriffen, Signaturenordnungen und Schreiberhänden eine bedeutende Annäherung an den Umfang und die Struktur des ursprünglichen Bestandes.
Ferdinand Hodler: Elective Affinities from Klimt to Schiele
Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler (1853-1918) was an exponent of Symbolism and Jugendstil, a pioneer of Expressionism and an innovator of monumental painting. Hodler's significance can also be charted through those he influenced in Viennese Modernist circles, such as Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser, Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele. Hodler's landscapes, self-portraits and portraits of women (such as the haunting series following the death of his lover Valentine God -Darel) bristle with barely restrained energy and color, paving the way for the expressionistic, decorative experiments of the next generation of artists. Published to accompany the artists' most comprehensive exhibition in Austria since his resounding success at the 1904 Secession, Ferdinand Hodler: Elective Affinities from Klimt to Schiele explores the main themes of Hodler's work and puts him in the context of his peers and followers.
