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Die Ausstellung 'Weitblick' im Städtischen Museum Braunschweig präsentiert Momente von Internationalität und Kulturtransfer in den vielfältigen Sammlungen des Hauses. Die Schau besteht aus einzelnen thematischen Inseln mit Dialogen zwischen Kulturräumen. Dialogpartner sind beispielsweise Amerika, Italien und Asien. Die Amerika-Insel der Ausstellung widmet sich unter anderem dem Braunschweiger Reiseschriftsteller Friedrich Gerstäcker (1816-1872) und generell dem Motivkreis der Entdeckung der Neuen Welt durch die Europäer. Ausgestellt werden beispielsweise Werke wie der Kupferstich America (1575-1580) von Jan van der Straet (1523-1605), auch Stradanus genannt, und die Reiseberichtsammlungen von Theodor de Bry aus dem späten 16. Jahrhundert. Besonders aufsehenerregend ist ein knapp fünf Meter langes und ein Meter breites Birkenrindenkanu aus dem nordöstlichen Waldland in Amerika, das zu den wenigen erhaltenen Exemplaren aus dem 19. Jahrhundert gehört. 00Exhibition: Städtisches Museum Braunschweig - Haus am Löwenwall, Germany (31.10.2017- 20.02.2018).
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The Encyclopedia of the Piano was selected in its first edition as a Choice Outstanding Book and remains a fascinating and unparalleled reference work. The instrument has been at the center of music history with even composers of large symphonic work asserting that they do not write anything without sketching it out first on a piano; its limitations and expressive capacity have done much to shape the contours of the western musical idiom. Within the scope of this user-friendly guide is everything from the acoustics and construction of the piano to the history of the companies that have built them. The piano-lover might also be surprised to find an entry for Thomas Jefferson, and will no doubt read intently the passages about the changing history of the piano's place in the home. Uniformly well-written and authoritative, this guide will channel anyone's love for the instrument, through social, intellectual, art history and beyond into the electronic age.
From 1937 to 1944 the National Socialist regime organised a series of art exhibitions, Grosse Deutsche Kuntstausstellung, in Munich. This book traces the history of the exhibitions, characterises the artists and artworks shown and investigates how the local Munich tradition of displaying art was reinvented for national purposes.
Elizabeth Lorentz was a young maid servant in early modern Germany who believed herself to be tormented by the devil, and who was eventually brought to trial in 1667. The trial grappled with the question of whether Lorentz was a willing accomplice of the devil or suffering from melancholy as a result of her previous sins. To provide readers with historical context, Morton includes an introduction to the early modern issues of demonic pact, possession, and spiritual melancholy, and as a supplement, a contemporary record of demonic possession of another young woman. The Bedevilment of Elizabeth Lorentz provides excellent insight into the complexities of Protestant attitudes to melancholy and the Devil, and into the circumstances of young women in early modern Europe.
This volume explores connections between architecture and theatre, and encourages imagination in the design of buildings and social spaces. Imagination is arguably the architect’s most crucial capacity, underpinning memory, invention, and compassion. No simple power of the mind, architectural imagination is deeply embodied, social, and situational. Its performative potential and holistic scope may be best understood through the model of theatre. Theatres of Architectural Imagination examines the fertile relationship between theatre and architecture with essays, interviews and entr’actes arranged in three sections: Bodies, Settings, and (Inter)Actions. Contributions explore a global spect...
Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics examines the roles that queens consort played in dynastic politics and cultural transfer between their natal and marital courts during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. This collection of essays analyses the part that these queens played in European politics, showing how hard and soft power, high politics and cultural influences, cannot be strictly separated. It shows that the root of these consorts’ power lay in their dynastic networks and the extent to which they cultivated them. The consorts studied in this book come from territories such as Austria, Braunschweig, Hanover, Poland, Portugal, Prussia and Saxony an...