From the 16th century to the 18th century skin colors have been stereotyped and stylized as essential characteristics of race. Color is of vital importance for artistic constructions of the body. This publication examines to what extent art has prepared the racist discourse by v…
Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain brings together historians with a wide range of interests to take a uniquely wide-lens view of how technology and the environment have been intimately and irreversibly entangled in Britain over the last 300 years. It co…
„Man schreit vor Angst und Entsetzen. Diese Bilder sind das Innerste, Erschütterndste, Grandioseste, Unfaßbarste, das seit Menschengedenken gemacht worden ist." Der Künstler Hugo Ball (1886-1927) zeigte sich 1913 nach seinem Besuch des Kunstsalons Emil Richter in Dresden wahrhaf…
In this study of Amsterdam's Golden Age cultural elite, John Michael Montias analyzes records of auctions from the Orphan Chamber of Amsterdam through the first half of the seventeenth century, revealing a wealth of information on some 2,000 art buyers' regional origins, social …
This book investigates the nature of aesthetic experience and aesthetic objects. Written by leading philosophers, psychologists, literary scholars and semioticians, the book addresses two intertwined issues. The first is related to the phenomenology of aesthetic experience: The…
This necessary and thoughtprovoking study brings together the organisational side of the world of the arts and the understanding of the many functions art fulfi lls in our culture. The author sets out to establish how the organisation of art worlds serves the functioning of the …
"Contemporary Art in Heritage Spaces considers the challenges that accompany an assessment of the role of contemporary art in heritage contexts, whilst also examining ways to measure and articulate the impact and value of these intersections in the future. Presenting a variety o…
In the 1960s, between the construction of the Berlin Wall (1961) and the change of power (Ulbricht / Honecker 1971), a field of tension between the claim to power and truth of the SED on one side and the subjective obstinacy of the works of art and their creators on the other ha…
We no longer live in the society of the spectacle, passively seeing the world. Now we perform our very own spectacle in a society that demands it at every turn. We've become advertisements of ourselves, our own PR agents, continually putting on a performance and measuring it hou…
Buddhist rock sculpture of Swat/Uddiyana (7th-8th cent. CE): Analytical study of its aesthetic values, technical concept, historical background and cultural influence Buddhistische Felsskulpturen von Swat / Uddiyana (7. bis 8. Jh n. Chr.): Analytische Studie zum ästhetischen Wer…
Buddhist rock sculpture of Swat/Uddiyana (7th-8th cent. CE): Analytical study of its aesthetic values, technical concept, historical background and cultural influence.
Subject of the volume are the finds uncovered during the excavations of the ÖAI in the residential area „Phournoi" of the ancient town of Lousoi in Northwest Arkadia. A short introduction to the architecture of the houses is followed by the presentation of the pottery and small …
Cultural Policy: Origins, Evolution, and Implementation in Canada's Provinces and Territories
by Jean-Paul Baillargeon, Nicole Barrieau, Alison Beale, Daniel Bourgeois, Donna Gannon, Joy Cohnstaedt, Patrice A. Dutil, Fernand Harvey, M. Sharon Jeanotte, Jan Marontate, Catherine Murray, Ronald Rompkey, Dick Stanley, Karen Wall, David Whitson, Monica Gattinger, Diane St-Pierre
