"Religious icons have been a contested terrain across the world. Their implications and understanding travel further than the artistic or the aesthetic and inform contemporary preoccupations. This book traces the lives of religious sculptures beyond the moment of their creation.…
Curatopia: museums and the future of curatorship
What is the future of curatorship? Is there a vision for an ideal model, a curatopia, whether in the form of a utopia or dystopia? Or is there a plurality of approaches, amounting to a curatorial heterotopia? This pioneering volume addresses these questions by considering the cu…
The cultural milieu in the "Age of Goethe" of eighteenth-century Germany is given fresh context in this art historical study of the noted writers' patroness: Anna Amalia, Duchess of Weimar-Sachsen-Eisenach. An important noblewoman and patron of the arts, Anna Amalia transformed …
Objetos como testigos del contacto cultural: perspectivas interculturales de la historia y del…
by Combès, Isabelle, Cunill, Caroline, Torres-Mazuera, Gabriela, Okoshi Harada, Tsubasa, Gabbert, Wolfgang, Abejez, Luís J., Bock, Ulrike, Chosson, Marie, Martínez, González, Fernando, Nelson, Lira Larios, Regina, Llanes Salazar, Rodrigo, Moragas Segura, Natàlia, Schüren, Ute
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"Durante la conferencia internacional 'Objetos como testigos del contacto cultural. Perspectivas interculturales de la historia y del presente de las poblaciones indígenas del Alto Río Negro (Brasil/Colombia)', que se realizó del 31 de julio al 2 de agosto de 2014 en el Ethnolog…
Die deutschsprachiche Kunstkritik entsteht in Anlehnung an die französische Kunsttheorie und Salonkritik ab der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts in Periodika der Aufklärung. Während Akademieausstellungen im Louvre Menschenmassen anziehen und die französische Salonkritik herau…
Die deutschsprachiche Kunstkritik entsteht in Anlehnung an die französische Kunsttheorie und Salonkritik ab der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts in Periodika der Aufklärung. Während Akademieausstellungen im Louvre Menschenmassen anziehen und die französische Salonkritik herau…
This is an illustrated study of the reception of classical sculptures in the early modern period. Viccy Coltman contrasts the culture of British 18th century collecting, which integrated sculpture into the domestic interior, with the focus upon individual specimens by archaeolog…
This is a book about classical sculptures in the early modern period, centuries after the decline and fall of Rome, when they began to be excavated, restored, and collected by British visitors in Italy in the second half of the eighteenth century. Viccy Coltman contrasts the pre…
"Collecting the New is the first book on the questions and challenges that museums face in acquiring and preserving contemporary art. Because such art has not yet withstood the test of time, it defies the traditional understanding of the art museum as an institution that collect…
