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Zwischen Mimesis und Typus. Die rassenanthropologische Lektüre altägyptischer Menschendarstellungen im 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert. [PDF]
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]
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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E. H. Gombrich. La Historia del Arte y la República de las Letras [PDF]
Discurso con ocasión de su investidura como Doctor Honoris Causa de la Universidad Complutense, el 28 de enero de 1992.
Ernst H. Gombrich
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Studying gestures in art [PDF]
In 1887, when art history was concerned with aethetics and the study of individual artist, Lange, like Warburg after him, encouraged the discussion of broader issues of representation, positioning his study of the representation of a human gesture at the
Eckart Marchand
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The subject of scientific art history according to Riegl … and his followers [PDF]
Alois Riegl’s first and foremost task in his Historical Grammar of the Visual Arts, the foundational text of ‘art history as a scientific discipline’, was the definition of its proper subject.
Rebeka Vidrih
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The science of talismans today
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?
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
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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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
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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