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In his series Fehlstellen, Simon Wachsmuth (born 1964) replicates the missing and destroyed parts of Piero della Francesca's "Legend of the True Cross" fresco cycle. Using black paint, he thereby creates a fictitious cartography from these holes in visual information to which he adds current newspaper cuttings on Turkey's accession to the European Union and old photographs of Istanbul.
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great offers a considerable range of topics, of interest to students and academics alike, in the long tradition of this subject’s significant impact, across a sometimes surprising and comprehensive variety of areas. Arguably no other historical figure has cast such a long shadow for so long a time. Every civilisation touched by the Macedonian Conqueror, along with many more that he never imagined, has scrambled to “own” some part of his legacy. This volume canvasses a comprehensive array of these receptions, beginning from Alexander’s own era and journeying up to the present, in order to come to grips with the impact left by this influential but elusive figure.
A new theory of culture presented with a new method achieved by comparing closely the art and science in 20th century Austria and Hungary. Major achievements that have influenced the world like psychoanalysis, abstract art, quantum physics, Gestalt psychology, formal languages, vision theories, and the game theory etc. originated from these countries, and influence the world still today as a result of exile nurtured in the US. A source book with numerous photographs, images and diagrams, it opens up a nearly infinite horizon of knowledge that helps one to understand what is going on in today’s worlds of art and science.
Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas (1925–1929) is a prescient work of mixed media assemblage, made up of hundreds of images culled from antiquity to the Renaissance and arranged into startling juxtapositions. Warburg’s allusive atlas sought to illuminate the pains of his final years, after he had suffered a breakdown and been institutionalized. It continues to influence contemporary artists today, including Gerhard Richter and Mark Dion. In this illustrated exploration of Warburg and his great work, Georges Didi-Huberman leaps from Mnemosyne Atlas into a set of musings on the relation between suffering and knowledge in Western thought, and on the creative results of associative thinking. Deploying writing that delights in dramatic jump cuts reminiscent of Warburg’s idiosyncratic juxtapositions, and drawing on a set of sources that ranges from ancient Babylon to Walter Benjamin, Atlas, or the Anxious Gay Science is rich in Didi-Huberman’s trademark combination of elan and insight.
Der Titel des Buches ist in mehrfacher Hinsicht doppeldeutig. Der Sammelband vereint somatische, kulturhistorische und methodologische Themen. Aus der Perspektive der Sportgeschichtsschreibung als Kulturgeschichte von Körper, Bewegung und Sport werden Sinnkonstruktionen und Wirklichkeitsdeutungen der Menschen in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart beleuchtet. Vielfältige internationale Zugänge und Inhalte werden miteinander in Dialog gebracht, um die Sportgeschichte innovativ zu beleben und fortzuschreiben.
Includes works by Siegfried Anzinger, Francis Bacon, Maja Bajevic, James Connelly, Destiny Deacon, Adolf Frohner, Jeppe Hein, Jörg Immendorff, Anselm Kiefer, Peter Land, Maria Lassnig, Markus Lüpertz, Alois Mosbacher, Hermann Nitsch, Julian Opie, Marc Quinn, Arnulf Rainer, Bill Viola, Franz West, Damien Hirst & David Bailey, and other arstists.
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