Art Agency And Living Presence

Author : Caroline van Eck
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783110345568

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Art, Agency and Living Presence by Caroline van Eck Pdf

Throughout history, and all over the world, viewers have treated works of art as if they are living beings: speaking to them, falling in love with them, kissing or beating them. Although over the past 20 years the catalogue of individual cases of such behavior towards art has increased immensely, there are few attempts at formulating a theoretical account of them, or writing the history of how such responses were considered, defined or understood. That is what this book sets out to do: to reconstruct some crucial chapters in the history of thought about such reflections in Western Europe, and to offer some building blocks towards a theoretical account of such responses, drawing on the work of Aby Warburg and Alfred Gell.

Author : Caroline van Eck
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783110380354

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Art, Agency and Living Presence by Caroline van Eck Pdf

Throughout history, and all over the world, viewers have treated works of art as if they are living beings: speaking to them, falling in love with them, kissing or beating them. Although over the past 20 years the catalogue of individual cases of such behavior towards art has increased immensely, there are few attempts at formulating a theoretical account of them, or writing the history of how such responses were considered, defined or understood. That is what this book sets out to do: to reconstruct some crucial chapters in the history of thought about such reflections in Western Europe, and to offer some building blocks towards a theoretical account of such responses, drawing on the work of Aby Warburg and Alfred Gell.

Author : Caroline Alexandra Eck,Caroline van Eck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9400602219

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Art, Agency and Living Presence by Caroline Alexandra Eck,Caroline van Eck Pdf

Author : Karen J. Lloyd
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000636987

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Art, Patronage, and Nepotism in Early Modern Rome by Karen J. Lloyd Pdf

Drawing on rich archival research and focusing on works by leading artists including Guido Reni and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Karen J. Lloyd demonstrates that cardinal nephews in seventeenth-century Rome – those nephews who were raised to the cardinalate as princes of the Church – used the arts to cultivate more than splendid social status. Through politically savvy frescos and emotionally evocative displays of paintings, sculptures, and curiosities, cardinal nephews aimed to define nepotism as good Catholic rule. Their commissions took advantage of their unique position close to the pope, embedding the defense of their role into the physical fabric of authority, from the storied vaults of the Vatican Palace to the sensuous garden villas that fused business and pleasure in the Eternal City. This book uncovers how cardinal nephews crafted a seductively potent dialogue on the nature of power, fuelling the development of innovative visual forms that championed themselves as the indispensable heart of papal politics. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, early modern studies, religious history, and political history.

Author : Elsje van Kessel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783110495775

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The Lives of Paintings by Elsje van Kessel Pdf

In sixteenth-century Venice, paintings were often treated as living beings. As this book shows, paintings attended dinner parties, healed the sick, made money, and became involved in love affairs. Presenting a range of case studies, Elsje van Kessel offers a detailed examination of the agency paintings and other two-dimensional images could exert. This lifelike agency is not only connected to the seemingly naturalistic style of these images – works by Titian, Giorgione and their contemporaries, illustrated here in over 150 plates. It is also brought in relation to their social-historical contexts, meticulously unravelled through archival research. Grounded in the theoretical literature on the agency of material things, The Lives of Paintings contributes to Venetian studies as well as engaging with wider debates on the attribution of life and presence to images and objects.

Author : E. Allen Richardson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781476632612

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Hindu Gods in an American Landscape by E. Allen Richardson Pdf

 In India, Hindu images have been cast for millennia through the lost wax process and brought to life by priests—becoming not merely venerated icons but actual embodiments of gods. Second and third generation Hindu Americans have increasingly adopted a more worldly perspective toward religious objects, viewing them as symbolic rather than actual presences of the deity. The author traces the origins of this important shift, and examines Western attitudes regarding sacred objects, as well as the complex layering of traditional and modern Hindu attitudes in a globalized world.

Author : James Elkins,Robert Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135902469

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Renaissance Theory by James Elkins,Robert Williams Pdf

Renaissance Theory presents an animated conversation among art historians about the optimal ways of conceptualizing Renaissance art, and the links between Renaissance art and contemporary art and theory. This is the first discussion of its kind, involving not only questions within Renaissance scholarship, but issues of concern to art historians and critics in all fields. Organized as a virtual roundtable discussion, the contributors discuss rifts and disagreements about how to understand the Renaissance and debate the principal texts and authors of the last thirty years who have sought to reconceptualize the period. They then turn to the issue of the relation between modern art and the Renaissance: Why do modern art historians and critics so seldom refer to the Renaissance? Is the Renaissance our indispensable heritage, or are we cut off from it by the revolution of modernism? The volume includes an introduction by Rebecca Zorach and two final, synoptic essays, as well as contributions from some of the most prominent thinkers on Renaissance art including Stephen Campbell, Michael Cole, Frederika Jakobs, Claire Farago, and Matt Kavaler.

Author : Carlos Fausto
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496221551

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Art Effects by Carlos Fausto Pdf

In Art Effects Carlos Fausto explores the interplay between indigenous material culture and ontology in ritual contexts, interpreting the agency of artifacts and indigenous presences and addressing major themes in anthropological theory and art history to study ritual images in the widest sense. Fausto delves into analyses of the body, aerophones, ritual masks, and anthropomorphic effigies while making a broad comparison between Amerindian visual regimes and the Christian imagistic tradition. Drawing on his extensive fieldwork in Amazonia, Fausto offers a rich tapestry of inductive theorizing in understanding anthropology’s most complex subjects of analysis, such as praxis and materiality, ontology and belief, the power of images and mimesis, anthropomorphism and zoomorphism, and animism and posthumanism. Art Effects also brims with suggestive, hemispheric comparisons of South American and North American indigenous masks. In this tantalizing interdisciplinary work with echoes of Franz Boas, Pierre Clastres, and Claude Lévi-Strauss, among others, Fausto asks: how do objects and ritual images acquire their efficacy and affect human beings?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004363809

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Faces of Charisma: Image, Text, Object in Byzantium and the Medieval West by Anonim Pdf

In Faces of Charisma: Image, Text, Object in Byzantium and the Medieval West, a multi-disciplinary group of scholars advances the theory that charisma may be a quality of art as well as of person.

Author : Nicholas Tromans
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789146240

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The Private Lives of Pictures by Nicholas Tromans Pdf

A novel art history of England told through the artworks on display in domestic space over hundreds of years. The Private Lives of Pictures offers a new history of British art, seen from the perspective of the home. Focusing on the nineteenth and early-twentieth-century, the book takes the reader on a tour of an imaginary Victorian or Edwardian house, stopping in each room to look at the pictures on the walls. Nicholas Tromans opens up the intimate history of art in everyday life as he examines a diverse array of issues, including how pictures were chosen for each room, how they were displayed, and what role they played in interior design. Superbly illustrated, The Private Lives of Pictures will appeal to readers interested in both art and social history, as well as the history of interiors.

Author : Alessandro Bertinetto,Marcello Ruta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1133 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000397840

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The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Improvisation in the Arts by Alessandro Bertinetto,Marcello Ruta Pdf

Over the last few decades, the notion of improvisation has enriched and dynamized research on traditional philosophies of music, theatre, dance, poetry, and even visual art. This Handbook offers readers an authoritative collection of accessible articles on the philosophy of improvisation, synthesizing and explaining various subjects and issues from the growing wave of journal articles and monographs in the field. Its 48 chapters, written specifically for this volume by an international team of scholars, are accessible for students and researchers alike. The volume is organized into four main sections: I Art and Improvisation: Theoretical Perspectives II Art and Improvisation: Aesthetical, Ethical, and Political Perspectives III Improvisation in Musical Practices IV Improvisation in the Visual, Narrative, Dramatic, and Interactive Arts Key Features: Treats improvisation not only as a stylistic feature, but also as an aesthetic property of artworks and performances as well as a core element of artistic creativity. Spells out multiple aspects of the concept of improvisation, emphasizing its relevance in understanding the nature of art. Covers improvisation in a wide spectrum of artistic domains, including unexpected ones such as literature, visual arts, games, and cooking. Addresses key questions, such as: - How can improvisation be defined and what is its role in different art forms? - Can improvisation be perceived as such, and how can it be aesthetically evaluated? - What is the relationship between improvisation and notions such as action, composition, expressivity, and authenticity? - What is the ethical and political significance of improvisation?

Author : Luke Syson,Sheena Wagstaff,Emerson Bowyer,Brinda Kumar
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588396440

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Like Life by Luke Syson,Sheena Wagstaff,Emerson Bowyer,Brinda Kumar Pdf

Since before the myth of Pygmalion bringing a statue to life through desire, artists have used sculpture to explore the physical materiality of the body. This groundbreaking volume examines key sculptural works from thirteenth-century Europe to the global present, revealing new insights into the strategies artists deploy to blur the distinction between art and life. Three-dimensional renderings of the human figure are presented here in numerous manifestations, created by artists ranging from Donatello and Edgar Degas to Kiki Smith and Jeff Koons. Featuring works created in media both traditional and unexpected—such as glass, leather, and blood—Like Life presents sculpture by turns conventional and shocking, including effigies, dolls, mannequins, automata, waxworks, and anatomical models. Texts by curators and cultural historians as well as contemporary artists complete this provocative exploration of realistic representations of the human body. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana}

Author : Joke Brouwer,Arjen Mulder,Lars Spuybroek
Publisher : V2_ publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789056628567

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Vital Beauty by Joke Brouwer,Arjen Mulder,Lars Spuybroek Pdf

Philosophers, anthropologists, political thinkers and artists take a closer look at what the idea of beauty can mean to their disciplines, in an effort to redefine what beauty is and what it means to the design practice and art. The book focuses on the question of how the age-old notion of beauty can regain an importance appropriate to the 21st century.

Author : Toine van den Hoogen
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781036402846

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Public Theology and the Importance of Visual Culture by Toine van den Hoogen Pdf

This book asserts the importance of conducting research on visual culture phenomena in public theology. As we increasingly communicate and express our social and cultural identities through images in today’s culture and economy, visual culture has become a burgeoning area of study and research in many academic institutions. In light of this, public theology must engage with this complex field. The concept of iconicity is raising fresh inquiries within the realm of public theology, which is already rife with hermeneutic concerns. These questions must be revisited, as images compel us to reassess our ongoing approach to the interpretation of religion. The potency of images is an uncharted and potent force, propelling public theology towards a future that is yet to be discovered.

Author : Susanne Kuechler,Timothy Carroll
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000185522

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A Return to the Object by Susanne Kuechler,Timothy Carroll Pdf

This book draws on the work of anthropologist Alfred Gell to reinstate the importance of the object in art and society. Rather than presenting art as a passive recipient of the artist's intention and the audience's critique, the authors consider it in the social environment of its production and reception. A Return to the Object introduces the historical and theoretical framework out of which an anthropology of art has emerged, and examines the conditions under which it has renewed interest. It also explores what art 'does' as a social and cultural phenomenon, and how it can impact alternative ways of organising and managing knowledge. Making use of ethnography, museological practice, the intellectual history of the arts and sciences, material culture studies and intangible heritage, the authors present a case for the re-orientation of current conversations surrounding the anthropology of art and social theory. This text will be of key interest to students and scholars in the social and historical sciences, arts and humanities, and cognitive sciences.