Art : History

Focuses on the intersection between modernization, modernism, and Orientalism. This book, an assessment of the history and legacy of Orientalist art and visual culture, will be useful to scholars and students of art history, architecture, museum studies, and cultural and postcolonial studies. more...

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Emergency Design ist eine Methode der situativen Raum- und Kulturproduktion, die auf dem Modell der Krise basiert und von Yana Milev Anfang 2006 als interdisziplin??rer Theoriediskurs vorgestellt wurde. Krise als Ph??nomen setzt sich aus den Phasen der Erscheinung und ihrem Verschwinden zusammen. In der etymologischen Bestimmung ist Krise aus krisis (gr.) herzuleiten, was "entscheidende Wendung" bedeutet. Damit steht Krise nicht am Beginn eines Prozesses, sondern bildet den zu erreichenden Endpunkt in machtdominierten Gesellschaftssystemen. Die Gestaltungsbereiche Design, Architektur und Kunst haben nicht mit Objektentw??rfen und ??sthetisierung zu tun, sondern mit tempor??ren Situationen. Die Formgebung erw??chst aus den Inhalten und nicht aus der Reproduktion von formalen Funktionsweisen. Die Autoren betrachten den Krisenraum als Matrix kultureller Erneuerung in Design, Identit??ten und Architektur. Ruedi Baur besch??ftigt sich u.a. mit Design als Mittel zur Repr??sentation der Krise oder Paul Virilio mit dem Thema mobile Architektur und neue urbane Kulturen. Peter Sloterdijk stellt Emergency Design anhand ausgesuchter Beispiele als Projekt der Selbstaufr??umung im Weltverletzungsraum vor. Joachim Kreysler spricht aus epidemologischer Sicht ??ber die Ursachen medizinischer Emergencies. Weitere Beitr??ge stammen u.a. von Heiner M??hlmann, Gerd de Bruyn, Kari Jormakka, Michael Zinganel, Martina L??w, Stephan Tr??by, Jaqueline Otten. more...

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Envisioning the Past brings together archaeologists, art historians, and anthropologists to offer new perspectives on the construction of knowledge concerning the antiquity of man. The volume demonstrates the extent to which the visual presentation of archaeological research creates a particular discourse, powerful enough to shape our understanding of archaeological knowledge. No category of images is immune from this process, from site drawings to museum displays and from manuscript illustrations to digital media. more...

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A lively and intriguing tale of the competition between two artists, culminating in the construction of the Duomo in Florence, this is also the story of a city on the verge of greatness, and the dawn of the Renaissance, when everything artistic would change. Florence's Duomo – the dome of the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral – is one of the most enduring symbols of the Italian Renaissance, an equal in influence and fame to Leonardo and Michaelangelo's works. It was designed by Filippo Brunelleschi, the temperamental architect who rediscovered the techniques of mathematical perspective. He was the dome's 'inventor', whose secret methods for building remain a mystery as compelling to architects as Fermat's Last Theorem once was to mathematicians. Yet Brunelleschi didn't direct the construction of the dome alone. He was forced to share the commission with his arch–rival, the sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti, whose 'Paradise Doors' are also masterworks. This is the story of these two men – a tale of artistic genius and individual triumph. more...

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As riveting as a World War II thriller, The Forger's Spell is the true story of Johannes Vermeer and the small-time Dutch painter who dared to impersonate him centuries later. The con man's mark was Hermann Goering, one of the most reviled leaders of Nazi Germany and a fanatic collector of art. It was an almost perfect crime. For seven years a no-account painter named Han van Meegeren managed to pass off his paintings as those of one of the most beloved and admired artists who ever lived. But, as Edward Dolnick reveals, the reason for the forger's success was not his artistic skill. Van Meegeren was a mediocre artist. His true genius lay in psychological manipulation, and he came within inches of fooling both the Nazis and the world. Instead, he landed in an Amsterdam court on trial for his life. ARTnews called Dolnick's previous book, the Edgar Award-winning The Rescue Artist , "the best book ever written on art crime." In The Forger's Spell , the stage is bigger, the stakes are higher, and the villains are blacker. more...

Price: $19.95