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Vienna Meets Berlin
The volume is based on papers given at the London Symposium 'Vienna Meets Berlin: Culture in the Metropolis Between the Wars' which took place at the Institute of Germanic Studies in December 2001. The book surveys the cultural links between Vienna and Berlin with a focus on the inter-war years and some post-1945 continuities. It includes a centenary tribute to Ödön von Horváth and contributions on theatre, film, journalism (the feuilleton in particular), literature, music and socio-political issues. Together, the studies can be read as a narrative of interaction between the two capital cities. The industrial and modern Berlin of the 1920s proves an irresistible magnet for many Viennese, whose letters and journalism time and again reflect on the differences between the cities. The year 1933 marks the political cut-off point, when in many cases exile becomes the predominant theme.
A Show of Hands
In contrast to the divide between conception and execution advocated by Anglo-American artists in the second half of the 1960s, this book reappraises conceptual art by examining it from the perspective of craft. The emphasis on craft shifts the focus from the Western art system to its margins, where creators were relegated to the status of mere artisans in the colonial context, on the pretext that attaining that of artists was beyond their reach. From this peripheral point of view, the book shows that work carried out with artisanal means can lead to conceptual practice. Moreover, this shift in perspective provides a new understanding of several positions within conceptualism, which ultimately appears as an ongoing reflection on the role of the hands, making, and craft.
The Colors of Photography
The Colors of Photography aims to provide a deeper understanding of what color is in the field of photography. Until today, color photography has marked the "here and now," while black and white photographs have been linked to our image of history and have formed our collective memory. However, such general dichotomies start to crumble when considering the aesthetic, cultural, and political complexity of color in photography. With essays by Charlotte Cotton, Bettina Gockel, Tanya Sheehan, Blake Stimson, Kim Timby, Kelley Wilder, Deborah Willis. Photographic contributions by Hans Danuser and Raymond Meier.
Grasping Shadows
Grasping Shadows offers the most thorough examination of the cultural uses of shadows. Exploring a myriad of major literary and artistic evocations of shadows, Grasping Shadows puts forth a unifying theory for how shadows function and how they transformed our relationship to darkness and light.
Reisen in das befremdliche Pompeji
Die Entdeckung Pompejis und Herculaneums schien Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts in glücklicher Koinzidenz mit der Genese des klassizistischen Geschmacks zu erfolgen. Anstelle von "edler Einfalt und stiller Größe" erblickten Reisende jedoch eine Stadt kleiner, arabesk verzierter Gebäude mit fensterlosen, nicht selten obszön ausgeschmückten Räumen. Ihre Berichte ringen um einen Ausgleich mit dem klassizistischen Antikebild.
Wanderzwang - Wanderlust
Der Band versammelt Beiträge, die im Rahmen einer Tagung am Interdisziplinären Zentrum für die Erforschung der Europäischen Aufklärung gehalten wurden. Diese stellte sich die Aufgabe, einem Forschungsdesiderat nachzugehen: dem Stellenwert der Fußreise innerhalb der deutschsprachigen Reiseliteratur des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts. Behandelt werden autobiographische und dichterische Texte, die in exemplarischer Weise Auskunft geben über einen Sachverhalt: der in der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts einsetzenden sozialen Aufwertung der Reise zu Fuß (und deren Reflexion), die einhergeht mit einer Raumerfahrung, die aus der Sicht des Kutschenreisenden so nicht möglich war. - Ergänzt wird der Band durch eine Quellenbibliographie zu den Fußreisen in dem behandelten Zeitraum.
Gedächtnisräume
Be it the Hanseatic League, the Bismarck monument in Hamburg or the Battle of Dybbøl – Northern Germany hosts a number of places of remembrance out of whose complex stratifications identity structures emerged in the federal states of Lower Saxony, Hamburg, Bremen, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein. The authors of this volume enquire into these places of memory in Northern Germany, looking into the multi-layered connections between places, actors and recollections – and into blank spaces of remembrance. They are concerned with how themes and mechanisms of remembrance interlock and thus weave local and regional narratives into a complete picture. The mutual shaping and dependencies of space and memory has become a commonplace notion since the "spatial turn" in cultural studies; this anthology is the first to address this guiding theme and in such breadth for the northern German states.
Masken, Geister, Sphären
John Stezaker (* 1949) gilt als einer der einflussreichsten Künstler seiner Generation im Bereich der Collage. Dabei basieren seine Arbeiten vor allem auf gefundenen Fotografien von Schauspieler_innen und Filmstills aus Hollywood-B-Movie-Produktionen der 1930er und 1940er Jahre sowie auf veralteten Postkarten. Aus diesen Flohmarktfunden generiert Stezaker Collagen, die grundsätzliche bild- und medientheoretische Fragestellungen formulieren und dabei Anklänge an dadaistische und surrealistische Vorbilder deutlich werden lassen. Die Collage-Serien Stezakers verhandeln zudem verschiedene Figuren und Figurationen des Dritten, die in Masken, Geistern und Sphären als Zwischen-Figuren auftreten...
