Deconstructing The Myths Of Islamic Art

Author : Onur Öztürk,Xenia Gazi,Sam Bowker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000555950

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Deconstructing the Myths of Islamic Art by Onur Öztürk,Xenia Gazi,Sam Bowker Pdf

Deconstructing the Myths of Islamic Art addresses how researchers can challenge stereotypical notions of Islam and Islamic art while avoiding the creation of new myths and the encouragement of nationalistic and ethnic attitudes. Despite its Orientalist origins, the field of Islamic art has continued to evolve and shape our understanding of the various civilizations of Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Situated in this field, this book addresses how universities, museums, and other educational institutions can continue to challenge stereotypical or homogeneous notions of Islam and Islamic art. It reviews subtle and overt mythologies through scholarly research, museum collections and exhibitions, classroom perspectives, and artists’ initiatives. This collaborative volume addresses a conspicuous and persistent gap in the literature, which can only be filled by recognizing and resolving persistent myths regarding Islamic art from diverse academic and professional perspectives. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, museum studies, visual culture, and Middle Eastern studies.

Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367772655

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Deconstructing the Myths of Islamic Art by Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

Author : Terje Østebø
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000471724

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Routledge Handbook of Islam in Africa by Terje Østebø Pdf

Bringing together cutting-edge research from a range of disciplines, this handbook argues that despite often being overlooked or treated as marginal, the study of Islam from an African context is integral to the broader Muslim world. Challenging the portrayal of African Muslims as passive recipients of religious impetuses arriving from the outside, this book shows how the continent has been a site for the development of rich Islamic scholarship and religious discourses. Over the course of the book, the contributors reflect on: The history and infrastructure of Islam in Africa Politics and Islamic reform Gender, youth, and everyday life for African Muslims New technologies, media, and popular culture. Written by leading scholars in the field, the contributions examine the connections between Islam and broader sociopolitical developments across the continent, demonstrating the important role of religion in the everyday lives of Africans. This book is an important and timely contribution to a subject that is often diffusely studied, and will be of interest to researchers across religious studies, African studies, politics, and sociology.

Author : Sharon Hecker,Peter J. Karol
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000575071

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Posthumous Art, Law and the Art Market by Sharon Hecker,Peter J. Karol Pdf

This book takes an interdisciplinary, transnational and cross-cultural approach to reflect on, critically examine and challenge the surprisingly robust practice of making art after death in an artist's name, through the lenses of scholars from the fields of art history, economics and law, as well as practicing artists. Works of art conceived as multiples, such as sculptures, etchings, prints, photographs and conceptual art, can be—and often are—remade from original models and plans long after the artist has passed. Recent sales have suggested a growing market embrace of posthumous works, contemporaneous with questioning on the part of art history. Legal norms seem unready for this surge in posthumous production and are beset by conflict across jurisdictions. Non-Western approaches to posthumous art, from Chinese emulations of non-living artists to Native American performances, take into account rituals of generational passage at odds with contemporary, market-driven approaches. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, the art market, art law, art management, museum studies and economics.

Author : Michelle Lim,Kyunghee Pyun
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000583779

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American Art in Asia by Michelle Lim,Kyunghee Pyun Pdf

This book challenges existing notions of what is "American" and/or "Asian" art, moving beyond the identity issues that have dominated art-world conversations of the 1980s and the 1990s and aligning with new trends and issues in contemporary art today, e.g. the Global South, labor, environment, and gender identity. Contributors examine both historical and contemporary instances in art practices and exhibition-making under the rubric of "American art in Asia." The book complicates existing notions of what constitutes American art, Asian American (and American Asian) art. As today’s production and display of contemporary art takes place across diffused borders, under the fluid conditions of a globalized art world since transformed by the COVID-19 pandemic, new contexts and art historical narratives are forming that upend traditional Euro-American mappings of center-margins, migratory patterns and community engagement. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, American studies, Asian studies and visual culture.

Author : Megan Brandow-Faller,Laura Morowitz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000646061

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Erasures and Eradications in Modern Viennese Art, Architecture and Design by Megan Brandow-Faller,Laura Morowitz Pdf

Erasures and Eradications in Modern Viennese Art, Architecture and Design challenges the received narrative on the artists, exhibitions, and interpretations of Viennese Modernism. The book centers on three main erasures—the erasure of Jewish artists and critics; erasures relating to gender and sexual identification; and erasures of other marginalized figures and movements. Restoring missing elements to the story of the visual arts in early twentieth-century Vienna, authors investigate issues of gender, race, ethnic and sexual identity, and political affiliation. Both well-studied artists and organizations—such as the Secession and the Austrian Werkbund, and iconic figures such as Klimt and Hoffmann—are explored, as are lesser known figures and movements. The book’s thought-provoking chapters expand the chronological contours and canon of artists surrounding Viennese Modernism to offer original, nuanced, and rich readings of individual works, while offering a more diverse portrait of the period from 1890, through World War II and into the present. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, history, design history, architectural history, and European studies.

Author : Kathleen James-Chakraborty,Sabine T. Kriebel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000584288

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Bauhaus Effects in Art, Architecture, and Design by Kathleen James-Chakraborty,Sabine T. Kriebel Pdf

Bringing together an international team of scholars, this book offers new perspectives on the impact that the Bauhaus and its teaching had on a wide range of artistic practices. Three of the fields in which the Bauhaus generated immediately transformative effects were housing, typography, and photography. Contributors go further to chart the surprising relation of the school to contemporary developments in hairstyling and shop window display in unprecedented detail. New scholarship has detailed the degree to which Bauhaus faculty and students set off around the world, but it has seldom paid attention to its impact in communist East Germany or in countries like Ireland where no Bauhäusler settled. This wide-ranging collection makes clear that a century after its founding, many new stories remain to be told about the influence of the twentieth century’s most innovative arts institution. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, design history, photography, and architectural history.

Author : Cynthia Fowler,Paula Murphy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000588514

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Art History at the Crossroads of Ireland and the United States by Cynthia Fowler,Paula Murphy Pdf

Taking the visual arts as its focus, this anthology explores aspects of cultural exchange between Ireland and the United States. Art historians from both sides of the Atlantic examine the work of artists, art critics and art promoters. Through a close study of selected paintings and sculptures, photography and exhibitions from the nineteenth century to the present, the depth of the relationship between the two countries, as well as its complexity, is revealed. The book is intended for all who are interested in Irish/American interconnectedness and will be of particular interest to scholars and students of art history, visual culture, history, Irish studies and American studies.

Author : Claude Cernuschi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000648355

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Egon Schiele and the Art of Popular Illustration by Claude Cernuschi Pdf

Presenting a radically different picture of Egon Schiele’s work, this study documents (in one-to-one comparisons) the extent of the artist’s visual borrowings from the Viennese humoristic journal, Die Muskete. Claude Cernuschi analyzes each comparison on a case-by-case basis, primarily because the interpretation of cartoons and caricatures is highly contingent on their specific historical and cultural context. Although this connection has gone unnoticed in the literature, in retrospect, this correlation makes perfect sense. Not only was Schiele’s artistic production frequently compared to caricature (and derided for being “grotesque”), but Expressionism and caricature are natural allies. One may belong to “high” art and the other to “popular” culture, yet both presuppose similar assumptions and deploy a similar rhetorical position: namely, that the exaggeration of human physiognomy allows deeper psychological “truths” to emerge. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, popular culture, and politics.

Author : Gabriel Pihas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000613469

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Nature and Imagination in Ancient and Early Modern Roman Art by Gabriel Pihas Pdf

This volume uses the art of Rome to help us understand the radical historical break between the fundamental ancient pre-supposition that there is a natural world or cosmos situating human life, and the equally fundamental modern emphasis on human imagination and its creative power. Rome’s unique art history reveals a different side of the battle between ancients and moderns than that usually raised as an issue in the history of science and philosophy. The book traces the idea of a cosmos in pre-modern art in Rome, from the reception of Greek art in the Roman republic to the construction of the Pantheon, to early Christian art and architecture. It then sketches the disappearance of the presupposition of a cosmos in the High Renaissance and Baroque periods, as creativity became a new ideal. Through discussions of the art and architecture that defines proto-modern Rome— from Michelangelo’s terribilita’ in the Sistine Chapel, Caravaggio’s realism, Baroque illusionism, the infinities of Borromini’s architecture, to the Grand Tour’s representations of ruins— through an interpretation of such major issues and works, this book shows how modern art liberates us while leaving us feeling estranged from our grounding in the natural world. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, architectural history, classics, philosophy, and early modern history and culture.

Author : Stephen Moonie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000554311

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Art Criticism and Modernism in the United States by Stephen Moonie Pdf

This study is an analysis of 'high' and 'late' modernist criticism in New York during the 1960s and early 1970s. Through a close reading of a selection of key critics of the period—which will expand the remit beyond the canonical texts—the book examines the ways that modernist criticism’s discourse remains of especial disciplinary interest. Despite its alleged narrowness and exclusion, the debates of the 1960s raised fundamental questions concerning the nature of art writing. Those include arguments around the nature of value and judgement; the relationship between art criticism and art history; and the related problem of what we mean by the ‘contemporary.’ Stephen Moonie argues that within those often-fractious debates, there exists a shared discourse. And further, contrary to the current consensus that modernists were elitist, dogmatic, and irrelevant to contemporary debates on art, the study shows that there is much that we can learn from reconsidering their writings. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, modern art, art criticism, and literary studies.

Author : Sven Dupré,Jenny Boulboullé
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000553345

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Histories of Conservation and Art History in Modern Europe by Sven Dupré,Jenny Boulboullé Pdf

This book traces the development of scientific conservation and technical art history. It takes as its starting point the final years of the nineteenth century, which saw the establishment of the first museum laboratory in Berlin, and ground-breaking international conferences on art history and conservation held in pre-World War I Germany. It follows the history of conservation and art history until the 1940s when, from the ruins of World War II, new institutions such as the Istituto Centrale del Restauro emerged, which would shape the post-war art and conservation world. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, conservation history, historiography, and history of science and humanities.

Author : Luke Smythe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000625219

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Gerhard Richter, Individualism, and Belonging in West Germany by Luke Smythe Pdf

This book reevaluates the art of Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) in relation to his efforts to achieve belonging in the face of West Germany’s increasing individualism between the 1960s and the 1990s. Richter fled East Germany in 1961 to escape the constraints of socialist collectivism. His varied and extensive output in the West attests to his greater freedom under capitalism, but also to his struggles with belonging in a highly individualised society, a problem he was far from alone in facing. The dynamic of increasing individualism has been closely examined by sociologists, but has yet to be employed as a framework for understanding broader trends in recent German art history. Rather than critique this development from a socialist perspective or experiment with new communal structures like a number of his colleagues, Richter sought and found security in traditional modes of bourgeois collectivity, like the family, religion, painting and the democratic capitalist state. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history as well as German history, culture and politics.

Author : Patricia Blessing,Elizabeth Dospěl Williams,Eiren L. Shea
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009393386

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Medieval Textiles across Eurasia, c. 300–1400 by Patricia Blessing,Elizabeth Dospěl Williams,Eiren L. Shea Pdf

This study considers the textiles made, traded, and exchanged across Eurasia from late antiquity to the late Middle Ages with special attention to the socio-political and cultural aspects of this universal medium. It presents a wide range of textiles used in both domestic and religious settings, as dress and furnishings, and for elite and ordinary owners. The introduction presents historiographical background to the study of textiles and explains the conditions of their survival in archaeological contexts and museums. A section on the materials and techniques used to produce textiles if followed by those outlining textile production, industry, and trade across Eurasia. Further sections examine the uses for dress and furnishing textiles and the appearance of imported fabrics in European contexts, addressing textiles' functions and uses in medieval societies. Lastly, a concluding section on textile aesthetics connects fabrics to their broader visual and material context.

Author : Jane Fejfer,Kristine Bøggild Johannsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000555073

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Sculpture Workshops as Space and Concept by Jane Fejfer,Kristine Bøggild Johannsen Pdf

This book explores the multifaceted aspects of sculptor’s workshops from the Renaissance to the early nineteenth century. Contributors take a fresh look at the sculptor’s workshop as both a physical and discursive space. By studying some of the most prominent artists’ sculptural practices, the workshop appears as a multifaced, sociable and practical space. The book creates a narrative in which the sculptural workshop appears as a working laboratory where new measuring techniques, new materials and new instruments were tested and became part of the lived experience of the artist and central to the works coming into being. Artists covered include Donatello, Roubilliac, Thorvaldsen, Canova, and Christian Daniel Rauch. The book will be of interest to scholars studying art history, sculpture, artist workshops, and European studies.