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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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Ernst H. Gombrich on Abstract Painting [PDF]
Aisthesis, 2015 Ernst H. Gombrich criticized abstract painting with several remarks scattered around his wide oeuvre. I argue that his view of abstract paintings is coherent with the account of pictorial representation he put forward in Art and Illusion, show some ...
Elisa Caldarola
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Sobre Gombrich y el arte contemporáneo [PDF]
Aisthesis, 2009 El historiador del arte Ernst Gombrich ha sido un crítico de los supuestos filosóficos de la iconología de Erwin Panofsky, debido a que en ésta, tanto la obra de arte como su creador, se diseminan en la generalidad de la «cultura».
Sergio Rojas
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Color Research &Application, Volume 48, Issue 5, Page 543-556, September/October 2023., 2023 Abstract Color is a central component of human experience, yet when we narrow our focus to the practice of city planning and architecture, color only plays a marginal role in the initial phases of the design process. This paper reviews various approaches to using color on buildings: for example, the evolution of regional styles due to the availability ...
Ralf Weber
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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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History Compass, Volume 19, Issue 8, August 2021., 2021 Abstract The past decade has seen tremendous growth and innovation in the use of digital resources, methods, and tools in the history of art and architecture. While digital art history is less developed than text‐based disciplines, the emergence of new digital standards for visual and spatial data, and advances in computer vision are poised to ...
Alexander Brey
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