Central European and American Perspectives on Visual Arts in Early Modern Europe
Author: Ondřej Jakubec
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9788021066106
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Author: Ondřej Jakubec
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9788021066106
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Beáta Hock
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-05-30
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 1351187171
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited collection reassesses East-Central European art by offering transnational perspectives on its regional or national histories, while also inserting the region into contemporary discussions of global issues. Both in popular imagination and, to some degree, scholarly literature, East-Central Europe is persistently imagined as a hermetically isolated cultural landscape. This book restores the diverse ways in which East-Central European art has always been entangled with actors and institutions in the wider world. The contributors engage with empirically anchored and theoretically argued case studies from historical periods representing notable junctures of globalization: the early modern period, the age of Empires, the time of socialist rule and the global Cold War, and the most recent decades of postsocialism understood as a global condition.
Author: AA. VV.
Publisher: Viella Libreria Editrice
Published: 2021-11-08T17:39:00+01:00
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 8833139379
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe end of World War I in 1918 meant a radical transformation of Central Europe: the multicultural space of former empires became divided into individual nation-states. This altered all spheres of life, deeply impacting the discipline of art history as well. The cosmopolitan vision of art history developed by figures from the Vienna School such as Franz Wickhoff and Alois Riegl was gradually replaced by new self-referential narratives. This nationalist tendency was reinforced by the division of Europe after World War II. In the wake of Jiří Kroupa’s pioneering studies, this volume takes a truly transcultural approach to art produced in the Central European region from the 12th to the 20th century. Freed from national prejudices, a region shaped by the constant movement of people, ideas, and objects emerges.
Author: Katerina Hornícková
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2018-09-15
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 1498551130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConcepts of visual communication form an explanatory framework for discussing the visual expressions of urban symbolic communication in urban life in towns in the center of Europe in the late medieval and early modern period, including the dramatic times of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. This book examines the role of images and visual representation by concentrating on the varieties of symbolic communication in towns that made a range of relationships visual: the status and role of urban civic, professional, and religious communities and the relations between the town and its lord or powerful families and individuals. The geographical framework of this book is the region in the former Habsburg countries north of the Danube River embracing the region between western Bohemia and what is today eastern Slovakia, including the borderland towns of northern Austria. Two studies focus on specific local and occupational communities in the Prague towns, but most of the texts in this book focus on small towns by contemporary European standards in which many forms of urban topography, buildings, objects, and monuments survive, even though few written sources have been preserved. Accessing a wide range of literature in regional languages and German for English speakers, this collection describes typical urban landscapes in early modern Central Europe outside the well-known Central European urban centers and traditional areas of study. The book is a relevant new contribution to medieval and early modern studies, not only covering an underappreciated geographical area but also addressing general questions about the history of rituals and performance as well as visual culture, communication, and identity discourses in late medieval and early modern urban space.
Author: Martha Pollak
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-08-09
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 052111344X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMartha Pollak offers a pan-European, richly illustrated study of early modern military urbanism, an international style of urban design.
Author: ArthurJ. DiFuria
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 135156577X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring the rich variety of pictorial rhetoric in early modern northern European genre images, this volume deepens our understanding of genre's place in early modern visual culture. From 1500 to 1700, artists in northern Europe pioneered the category of pictures now known as genre, portrayals of people in ostensibly quotidian situations. Critical approaches to genre images have moved past the antiquated notion that they portray uncomplicated 'slices of life,' describing them instead as heavily encoded pictorial essays, laden with symbols that only the most erudite contemporary viewers and modern iconographers could fully comprehend. These essays challenge that limiting binary, revealing a more expansive array of accessible meanings in genre's deft grafting of everyday scenarios with a rich complex of experiential, cultural, political, and religious references. Authors deploy a variety of approaches to detail genre's multivalent relations to older, more established pictorial and literary categories, the interplay between the meaning of the everyday and its translation into images, and the multifaceted concerns genre addressed for its rapidly expanding, unprecedentedly diverse audience.
Author: Max Ryynanen
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2020-11-15
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9781793634177
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is an introduction to the history of art as an institution, from its development in Central Europe to its global expansion through colonialism and diaspora. It considers how the class, gender, and race of artists function to challenge highbrow notions of art and develops the concept of nobrow as a way to democratize art in the future.
Author: Daniela Rywiková
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781666905236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection examines premodern history and art in East-Central Europe viewed from the perspective of gender and women's history. It gathers Czech art and other historians of all generations in order to introduce this segment of history writing to global academia.
Author: Laura J. Hoptman
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780262083133
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text presents documents drawn from the artistic archives of Eastern and Central Europe during the second half of the 20th century.
Author: Timothy McCall
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2013-04-01
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 1612480934
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSecrets in all their variety permeated early modern Europe, from the whispers of ambassadors at court to the emphatically publicized books of home remedies that flew from presses and booksellers’ shops. This interdisciplinary volume draws on approaches from art history and cultural studies to investigate the manifestations of secrecy in printed books and drawings, staircases and narrative paintings, ecclesiastical furnishings and engravers’ tools. Topics include how patrons of art and architecture deployed secrets to construct meanings and distinguish audiences, and how artists and patrons manipulated the content and display of the subject matter of artworks to create an aura of exclusive access and privilege. Essays examine the ways in which popes and princes skillfully deployed secrets in works of art to maximize social control, and how artists, printers, and folk healers promoted their wares through the impression of valuable, mysterious knowledge. The authors contributing to the volume represent both established authorities in their field as well as emerging voices. This volume will have wide appeal for historians, art historians, and literary scholars, introducing readers to a fascinating and often unexplored component of early modern culture.