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ART and the MIND – Ernst H. GOMBRICH
Ernst H. Gombrich, the Art Historian, master of both Continental thought and English language, became one of the world's most well-known representatives of the discipline. Half a century ago his testable theories transformed thinking on how to look at art. After only a few years during which semiotics appeared to render Sir Ernst's common-sense framework outdated, the rise of cognitive approaches has enabled him to recover internationally the status he once had in France as a radical thinker within modern philosophy. This book explores Gombrich's intellectual legacy by analysing some of the concepts and insights in the context of Image Science, the "Steckenpferd". The international contributors are original authorities in their own right, among them some of Gombrich's former students.
Art Historiography and Iconologies Between West and East
This volume explores a basic question in the historiography of art: the extent to which iconology was a homogenous research method in its own immutable right. By contributing to the rejection of the universalizing narrative, these case studies argue that there were many strands of iconology. Methods that differed from the ‘canonised’ approach of Panofsky were proposed by Godefridus Johannes Hoogewerff and Hans Sedlmayr. Researchers affiliated with the Warburg Institute in London also chose to distance themselves from Panofsky’s work. Poland, in turn, was the breeding ground for yet another distinct variety of iconology. In Communist Czechoslovakia there were attempts to develop a ‘Ma...
The Oxford Handbook of International Cultural Heritage Law
Provides a comprehensive examination of the field of International Cultural Heritage Law, Explores links with other areas of public and private international law, as well as analysing how cultural heritage law is contributing to the development of international law as a whole, Examines the implementation of cultural heritage law in a wide range of regional contexts including Africa, Americas, Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East Book jacket.
Psychology, Art, and Antifascism
A vivid portrait of two remarkable twentieth-century thinkers and their landmark collaboration on the use and abuse of caricature and propaganda in the modern world In 1934, Viennese art historian and psychoanalyst Ernst Kris invited his mentee E. H. Gombrich to collaborate on a project that had implications for psychology and neuroscience, and foreshadowed their contributions to the Allied war effort. Their subject: caricature and its use and abuse in propaganda. Their collaboration was a seminal early effort to integrate science, the humanities, and political awareness. In this fascinating biographical and intellectual study, Louis Rose explores the content of Kris and Gombrich’s project and its legacy.
Ötztaler Gletscher
Die Ötztaler Gletscher bilden eine der größten zusammenhängenden Eisflächen der Ostalpen. Seit über 400 Jahren werden sie von den Menschen beobachtet, gefürchtet, gezeichnet und interpretiert. Ein Aquarell des Vernagtferners von 1601 ist die älteste Darstellung eines Gletschers überhaupt. Der Blick auf die imposanten alpinen Eisriesen wirkt durch die Zeiten wie ein Spiegelbild unserer Gesellschaft: Wurde einst das krachende, bedrohliche Vorstoßen der Gletscher von der bäuerlichen Bevölkerung in Form von Frevelsagen verarbeitet, so zogen Eisbrüche und Gletscherseen ab dem 19. Jahrhundert Forschende, Bergbegeisterte und Reisende in Scharen ins Hochgebirge. In den vergangenen Jahrzehnten wurden Gletscher zum Symbol für die rasante Klimaerwärmung schlechthin – und sie finden als solches einmal mehr Eingang in das zeitgenössische Kunstschaffen.
Auftrag Zukunft: 3000 Zeichen für Gedenken, Toleranz und Demokratie
Seit 15 Jahren ist der Zukunftsfonds der Republik Österreich im Auftrag des "Niemals wieder!" zum Gedenken an die Opfer des NS-Regimes, zur Bekämpfung jeder Form von Antisemitismus und Rassismus sowie vor allem zur Wahrung von Demokratie und Menschenrechten und zur Förderung von Toleranz und internationaler Verständigung tätig. Im Dezember 2005 per Bundesgesetz errichtet, leistet der ÖZF seitdem einen unverzichtbaren Beitrag zur Förderung einer nachhaltigen und zukunftsorientierten Erinnerungskultur. Nicht nur das Engagement der Zukunftsfonds-Gremien, sondern gerade auch die geförderten Projekte haben zu einem mittlerweile offeneren Umgang mit belasteten Themen in der österreichisch...
Karikaturen über Bosnien-Herzegowina in deutschen und österreichischen satirischen Blättern
Die wissenschaftliche Analyse von Karikaturen über Bosnien-Herzegowina zwischen 1878 und 1908 steht im Zentrum der beiden Bände. In den Satireblättern lassen sich Stereotype, Vorurteile und das Verhältnis zwischen Deutschland, Österreich-Ungarn und Bosnien-Herzegowina ablesen. Die Autorin verbindet dies auch mit der historisch-politischen Situation auf dem Balkan. Nach einer grundlegenden Einführung in das Thema Karikaturen und einer Vorstellung der untersuchten Satirezeitschriften werden (zeit-)typische Motive, Symbole und Denkschemata herausgearbeitet, wobei der hypertextuelle Charakter der Karikaturen hervorgehoben wird. Zusätzlich liefert die Autorin eine Klassifikation und Systematisierung der Karikaturen.
Aby Warburg 150
Aby Warburg is regarded as one of the great pioneers of modern cultural studies. This book brings together texts by many of the most renowned researchers in the field who have been influenced by his work. They address his extraordinary impact on the understanding of cultural transmission and the influence of images and texts across time and space. What emerges is the continuing significance of Warburg for our own times. No one concerned with the many forms of the survival of the past in the present and the infinitely complex relationships between images and society will want to miss this book. Published in cooperation with the Warburg Institute, London and with the assistance of a grant from the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University, New York. Look inside
Object Fantasies
In the modern lexicon, ‘object’ refers to an entity that is materially constituted, spatially defined, and functionally determined. In contrast, the Latin word ‘fantasia’ has, since antiquity, referred to an apparition or the ability to imagine something that could be equally an object, an image, or a concept. This tension prompts further inquiry into the interrelations and differences between the experience of tangible objects (their perception and handling) and the creation of new objects (their conception and formation). What correlations exist between object fantasies, the self-consciousness of subjects, and the concrete and imagined conditions of human beings’ social lives? By addressing this question, this interdisciplinary book opens new perspectives in the field of object studies.
