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ALL POSSIBLE PASTS: Heritage, Simulacra, and Gentrification in Seoul

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban heritage scholars have often criticized simulacra as ‘bad’ copies that degrade the ‘good’ model of the past through commercialization and gentrification. This article challenges such Platonic dichotomies of good/bad and model/copy, arguing that the binary of good heritage and bad simulacra is flawed because heritage is itself actualized ...
Myung In Ji
wiley   +1 more source

Artists and Radicalism in Germany, 1890-1933: Reform, Politics and the Paradoxes of the Avant-Garde [PDF]

, 2015
This thesis seeks to lay the foundations for a socio-historical analysis of German radicalism and the avant-garde. Following first the development of the German applied arts movement from 1890, and then the debates over the role of painting from within ...
Pegioudis, N
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Beyond Distinction: Private Art Museums and Their Versatile Role for Elites' (Self)Legitimization Discourses

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 2000s have witnessed a significant, worldwide boom in new art museums founded by private, wealthy collectors. While the arts have long been a key arena for the remaking of elite distinction and the reproduction of inequalities, this surge in private museums has sparked much controversy.
Sara de Andrade Silva, Kristina Kolbe, Olav Velthuis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

P.J.H. Cuypers en de mythe van een progressieve architectuurgeschiedenis

Bulletin KNOB, 1996
Work and personality of P.J.H. Cuypers (1827-1921), the leading representative of gothic rationalism in the Netherlands, have been given a central role in the history of modern Dutch Architecture. This article shows that this position has only in part to
Aart Oxenaar
doaj   +1 more source

Museum of Modern Art, 1944 : l’habit selon l’architecte Bernard Rudofsky

Perspective, 2021
When the Museum of Modern Art in New York opened the exhibition “Are Clothes Modern?” in 1944, it was the first time that the institution considered clothing and its ability to integrate the spectrum of practices and objects then qualified as modern. The
Émilie Hammen
doaj   +1 more source

Jacques Maritain, Maurice Blondel, and the Ends of Art

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reconsiders Jacques Maritain's philosophical poetics by situating it within his longstanding debate with Maurice Blondel over the nature and unity of intellect. I argue that Maritain's influential defence of artistic autonomy, first articulated in Art et scolastique (1920), is ultimately unsound.
Steven Toussaint
wiley   +1 more source

1965. Rem Koolhaas in the Soviet Union [PDF]

Художественная культура
The article examines the formative interrelations between the phenomenology of impressions and the formation of a projective approach to architecture based on the fact of the journey of the Dutch architect R. Koolhaas to the Soviet Union (1965).
Sharapov Ivan A.
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A Study of the Kharkiv Architectural Avant-Garde

Docomomo Journal
The article addresses the issue of preserving Kharkiv’s architectural heritage from the first third of the 20th century. The main focus is on the preservation of authenticity of the early modernist heritage in the context of a crisis situation associated with the overall state of heritage preservation in Ukraine and during active military operations ...
Kateryna Cherkasova, Olesya Chagovets
openaire   +3 more sources

Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
wiley   +1 more source

TROPICAL FRENCH THEORY: Henri Lefebvre and the Reinvention of Urban Planning in Havana, Cuba (1968–1971)

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 1003-1019, July 2026.
Abstract Contributing to global urban history, planning theory and the geography of ideas, this article discusses the travels of Henri Lefebvre’s The Right to the City in the wake of May 1968, in France. That year, under the direction of Mario González and Max Baquero, a small team including the Italian architect Vittorio Garatti, French planner Jean ...
William Kutz
wiley   +1 more source