The nation‐state, non‐Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference
Abstract While empires have been central to political theory, they almost always refer to Western forms of imperialism and colonialism to which non‐Western societies are subject. But precolonial empires have ruled much of the world for much of known history. Building on recent International Relations (IR) scholarship, this article reconstructs an ideal
Loubna El Amine
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Explicating and Analyzing Ernst Gombrich's Theory of Stylistics and Its Application in Art Historical Narrative and Classification [PDF]
This study investigates and explicates Ernst Gombrich’s stylistic theory and its implications for understanding, narrating, and classifying art history.
Narges Sibuyeh +2 more
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Revisiting Roland Barthes's effet de réel : an analysis of the use of insignificant details in artist's monographs and monographic museums [PDF]
The anti-authorial criticism voiced in La mort de l’Auteur is probably Roland Barthes’ most direct attack on the traditional life-and-work format of the artist’s monograph. The essay has become - together with Foucault’s Qu’est-ce qu’un auteur?
Liefooghe, Maarten
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ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
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The individual’s triumph: the eighteenth-century consolidation of authorship and art historiography [PDF]
The eighteenth-century consolidation of authorial identity – apparent in Salon livrets, art criticism, sales catalogs, inventories, the theoretical development of maniera, signing and hanging practices – was crucial to subsequent, nineteenth-century ...
David Pullins
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ABSTRACT This article examines the role of museums in the construction of national identity during the Early Republican Period in Turkey (1923–1950). Drawing on theoretical approaches that interpret museums as spaces in which collective memory and national identity are materially organized and publicly communicated, the study analyzes museums as key ...
Duygu Atalay Şimşek
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Search for a method: a reassessment of Hegel’s dialectic in art history [PDF]
It is often noted that G.W.F. Hegel offers the modern academic discipline of art history its first methodological model of scholarly construction. This essay offers a critical analysis of some salient moments in the art historical reception of Hegel’s ...
Hammam Aldouri
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Claiming space outside dominant narratives: feminist strategies based upon freedom and diversity, alternative God-talk and criticizing structures of authority [PDF]
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van den Brandt, Hendrika
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Whose museum? Whose history? Whose memories?: remembering in the work of Dubravka Ugrešić [PDF]
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Vervaet, Stijn
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REALISM OR IDEALISM? PERSPECTIVES ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY FROM A PRACTICING HISTORIAN
ABSTRACT This review essay argues that the realist philosophy of history, as represented by Adam Timmins in Towards a Realist Philosophy of History, raises interesting questions about the nature of historical writing and challenges some of the foundations of idealist philosophy of history.
Stefan Berger
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