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Zwischen Mimesis und Typus. Die rassenanthropologische Lektüre altägyptischer Menschendarstellungen im 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert. [PDF]
Ber Wiss, 2020 Abstract Im Zuge der archäologischen Erschließung Ägyptens und des Vorderen Orients im 19. Jahrhundert kamen zahlreiche Menschendarstellungen aus den Kulturen des Altertums zum Vorschein, die auch jenseits der Altertums‐ und Kunstwissenschaften große Faszination auszuüben vermochten.
Wiedemann F.
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Presentación de «La estética de Freud», de Ernst H. Gombrich [PDF]
, 2021 En este documento se presenta una síntesis del escrito de Ernst H. Gombrich «La estética freudiana», que plantea la posibilidad de derivar una aproximación al arte y a la literatura en clave freudiana no desde presupuestos psicológicos, sino desde una ...
Amella, Francisco
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A NARRATIVE TURN: HUMAN AGENCY IN ROCK CARVINGS AT NÄMFORSEN, NORTHERN SWEDEN
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 42, Issue 4, Page 301-321, November 2023., 2023 Summary The idea to create pictorial narratives seems to have occurred long after humans learned to produce iconic images, that is, depictions based on visual similarity to external objects. In Scandinavia, e.g. in Gärde, Sweden or Stykket and Bøla, Norway, early Mesolithic images (e.g.
Peter Skoglund +4 more
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The spaces of religion: a view from South Asia★
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 553-572, September 2023., 2023 Abstract Anthropologists have spilt much ink deconstructing concepts inherited from the Enlightenment. Religion, possibly the most misleading such concept, has proved highly resistant to the acid of cross‐cultural comparison. Debates about the nature of religion go back to sociocultural anthropology's beginnings as a discipline and beyond.
David N. Gellner
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The science of talismans today
History Compass, Volume 21, Issue 3-4, April 2023., 2023 Abstract The science of talismans was cultivated in Arabic, Greek, and Latin in the first millennium AD and entered European vernaculars in the seventeenth century. Its primary concern is the ability of images to produce effects in the world, even at a distance.
Benjamin Anderson
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HISTORY MAKING AND ETHICS—AN INTEGRAL RELATIONSHIP?
History and Theory, Volume 62, Issue 1, Page 161-173, March 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT In this review essay, I examine the arguments made by Marnie Hughes‐Warrington, with Anne Martin, in Big and Little Histories: Sizing Up Ethics in Historiography. While I find much to praise in this history, I also ask critical questions about the impact of non‐Western ethics on historical writing, the role of ethics in historical writing ...
Stefan Berger
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What Time is the Visual? Photography and the History of the Future
Visual Anthropology Review, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 24-56, Spring 2023., 2023 Abstract Part of a broader inquiry that asks, “What time is the visual?” this article uses ethnographic observations and recent theoretical work to suggest that photography is as much future‐oriented as it is a zone for the preservation of the past. I document different temporal orientations of photographs, drawing on historical studio images featuring
Christopher Pinney
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German Life and Letters, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 341-364, July 2022., 2022 ABSTRACT The article discusses aspects of the dialectics of genius cults in the nineteenth century, using examples of Mozart's reception: the unveiling of the Salzburg memorial statue in 1842, Franz Grillparzer's texts on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his son Franz Xaver, as well as the artist's novella Der arme Spielmann.
Werner Michler
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Post‐Impressionism: Universal, British, Global
Art History, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 546-569, June 2022., 2022 Starting from the possibility of a ‘global’ account of a style, this essay examines the consequences of the idea of post‐impressionism. Around 1910, Roger Fry drew on histories of world art and international art historiography to cast post‐impressionism as putatively universal, a style that was not just a new development, but was a rediscovery of a ...
Sam Rose
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European Journal of Neuroscience, Volume 54, Issue 9, Page 7231-7259, November 2021., 2021 Abstract Although there is growing interest in the neural foundations of aesthetic experience, it remains unclear how particular mental subsystems (e.g. perceptual, affective and cognitive) are involved in different types of aesthetic judgements. Here, we use fMRI to investigate the involvement of different neural networks during aesthetic judgements ...
Ionela Bara +3 more
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