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Inside Stories
Art historian and conceptual artist Michael Huey returns again and again to the topics loss, legacy, and the archive in his work, including that of a journalist covering historical architecture in central Europe and beyond. In search of a variety of expressions of life and passion, he has for more than 30 years written about interiors—home, in the broadest sense—for newspapers and magazines, starting with The Home Forum, the arts and letters page of The Christian Science Monitor, and continuing for The World of Interiors, German AD, nest, and Cabana. This book contains a selection of Michael Huey’s very best stories, comprising over 70 superb articles accompanied by the author’s inspiring photographs. Through this lens we travel from hidden gems of the Baroque to forgotten places of the 19th century, to Vienna’s Art Nouveau, and on to recent times. But always he shows us homes, interiors, and people lovingly interwoven with art.
The Naked Truth
"In the popular imagination, turn-of-the-century Vienna is a cerebral place, marked by Freud, the discovery of the unconscious, and the advent of high modernist culture. But as historian Alys George argues, this stereotype of Viennese Modernism as essentially "heady" overlooks a rich cultural history of the body in the period. Spanning 1870 to 1930, The Naked Truth is an interdisciplinary tour de force that recasts the visual, literary, and performative cultures of the era and offers an alternative genealogy of this fascinating moment in the history of the West. Starting with the Second Vienna Medical School and its innovations in anatomy and pathology, George traces an emerging culture of b...
Visual Cultures in Science and Technology
This book aims to provide a synthesis of the history, generation, use, and transfer of images in scientific practice. It delves into the rich reservoir of case studies on visual representations in scientific and technological practice that have accumulated over the past couple of decades by historians, sociologists, and philosophers of science. The main aim is thus located on the meta-level. It adopts an integrative view of recurrently noted general features of visual cultures in science and technology, something hitherto unachieved and believed by many to be a mission impossible. By systematic comparison of numerous case studies, the purview broadens away from myopic microanalysis in search...
The Place of the Viewer
In recent decades, art historians and critics have occasionally emphasized a dynamic, embodied mode of looking, accenting the role of the viewer and the complex interplay between beholders and works of art. In The Place of the Viewer, Kerr Houston shows that an attention to the position and physical experiences of beholders has in fact long informed art historical analyses – and that close study of the theme can lead to a fuller understanding of the discipline, the act of viewership and individual works of art. Simultaneously attentive to historical ideas and contemporary scholarship, this book identifies a vein of thought that has been generally overlooked, and proposes new ways of seeing familiar works and traditions.
Naturselbstdrucke
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Reisen, so sagt man, ist eine Wissenschaft
Das 19. Jahrhundert war reich an wissensdurstigen Menschen. In der Epoche der Entdecker- und der Reiselust wurden Berichte aus Expeditionen in bis dahin unbekannte Winkel der Erde stets zu Bestsellern, zahlreiche Reisen und Forschungen revolutionierten die Wissenschaft. „REISEN, SO SAGT MAN, IST EINE WISSENSCHAFT“ widmet sich vorwiegend österreichischen Expeditionsfotografen und -malern jener Zeit. Wagemutigen, jungen Querdenkern, deren Arbeiten wir ein dokumentarisches Vermächtnis verdanken, das bis heute fasziniert und inspiriert. 20 Kapitel erzählen nicht nur von berühmten ehrgeizigen Mammutprojekten, wie der Novara-Weltumsegelung der Österreichischen Kriegsmarine oder der Österreich-Ungarischen Nordpolexpedition von 1872-1874, sondern auch von bisher weniger beachteten kleineren Forschungs- reisen. Eine außergewöhnliche Auswahl zum Großteil noch nie veröffentlichter Fotografien und Kunstwerke ermöglicht es dem Leser, sich auf die Spuren der vorgestellten Abenteurer zu begeben.
Cultural Techniques
This volume presents the preliminary results of the work carried out by the interdisciplinary cultural techniques research lab at the University of Erfurt. Taking up an impulse from media studies, its contributions examine —from a variety of disciplinary perspectives—the interplay between the formative processes of knowledge and action outlined within the conceptual framework of cultural techniques. Case studies in the fields of history, literary (and media) studies, and the history of science reconstruct seemingly fundamental demarcations such as nature and culture, the human and the nonhuman, and materiality and the symbolical order as the result of concrete practices and operations. These studies reveal that particularly basic operations of spatialization form the very conditions that determine emergence within any cultural order. Ranging from manual and philological "paper work" to practices of opening up and closing off spaces and collective techniques of assembly, these case studies replace the grand narratives of cultural history focusing on micrological examinations of specific constellations between human and nonhuman actors.
