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Book SynopsisWalead Beshty is a carefully curated guide to key bodies of work by the acclaimed conceptual artist presented in collaboration with Thomas Dane Gallery in London, Turin and Naples. One of todayâs leading conceptual artists, Los Angeles-based Walead Beshty (b. 1976, London) works across photography, sculpture and words. Beshtyâs art is expansive and best described as an ongoing conversation, to which this monograph is his next articulation. Through a deconstructing lens, Walead Beshty explores every exhibition and project the artist has presented in collaboration with Thomas Dane Gallery in London, Turin and Naples. The monograph offers a guide to some of the artistâs key bodies of work. Uncovering processes is central to Beshtyâs art. He deliberately incorporated marks made by oxidation and human touch into his FedEx copper works and Copper Surrogate works, as well as photographing the many individuals involved in his exhibitions in Industrial Portraits. The work that has gone into t

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Book SynopsisThis Element presents an overview of the controversies raised by various answers to the question: can computers create art? The position taken on controversial issues will depend on assumptions made about the technology, about the nature and location of consciousness, and about art and creativity.

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Book SynopsisFor anyone artistically inclined, observing the Moon and attempting to sketch or paint it can easily become a passion.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews:“This book is a companion to an earlier volume in the same series, Astronomical Sketching … . Each section offers a choice of techniques and materials, from relatively simple graphite on white paper to the more demanding procedures of pen and ink and stippling. In this respect the book will be of interest to both the complete novice and the more advanced artist. … It is thus a welcome addition to the literature.” (Bill Leatherbarrow, The Observatory, Vol. 132 (1229), August, 2012)Table of ContentsForeword.- Preface.- Key to Map of Featured Targets.- Basic Sketching: A Place to Begin.- Chapter 1: Sketching Craters.- Chapter 2: Sketching Maria (Seas).- Chapter 3: Sketching Mons (Mountains).- Chapter 4: Sketching Rilles (Lava Channels).- Chapter 5: Sketching Dorsa (Wrinkle Ridges).- Chapter 6: Sketching Crater and Sunlight Rays.- Chapter 7: Sketching Rupes (Scarps).- Chapter 8: Sketching the Phases.- Chapter 9: Sketching Domes.- Chapter 10: Sketching Lunar Eclipses.- Chapter 11: Additional Tutorials and Sketching Gallery.- Chapter 12: General Hints and Tips.- A Final Note from the Authors.- Appendix A: Observing Forms.- Appendix B: Glossary.- Appendix C: Resources.- Index.

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Book SynopsisArtist, columnist, and poet Gertrude McCarty Smith carried herself as a demure southern lady, yet this was deceiving as she was a prolific, creative trailblazer who had collectors and readers from coast to coast. This book features more than 150 images, a dozen poems, insightful essays, and a chronicle of her Smith's journey by her son-in-law.

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Book Synopsis/ Inhalt.- The Painter Peter Birkhäuser / Der Maler Peter Birkhäuser.- Plates and Commentaries / Bildteil mit Kommentaren.- Analytical Psychology and the Problems of Art (Lecture by Peter Birkhäuser) / Analytische Psychologie und die Probleme der Kunst (Vortrag von Peter Birkhäuser).- List of Plates / Bildverzeichnis.Table of Contents/ Inhalt.- The Painter Peter Birkhäuser / Der Maler Peter Birkhäuser.- Plates and Commentaries / Bildteil mit Kommentaren.- Analytical Psychology and the Problems of Art (Lecture by Peter Birkhäuser) / Analytische Psychologie und die Probleme der Kunst (Vortrag von Peter Birkhäuser).- List of Plates / Bildverzeichnis.

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Book SynopsisThis volume collects twenty-two major essays by Werner Wolf published between 1992 and 2014, which have contributed to establishing ‘intermediality’ as an internationally recognized research field, providing a widely accepted typology of the field and opening intermedial perspectives on areas as varied as narratology, metareferentiality and iconicity.Table of ContentsContents Preface  Walter Bernhart Part I: Intermediality: Theory and Typology 1 Intermedialität als neues Paradigma der Literaturwissenschaft? Plädoyer für eine literaturzentrierte Erforschung der Grenzüberschreitungen zwischen Wortkunst und anderen Medien am Beispiel von Virginia Woolfs “The String Quartet” [1996] 2 Towards a Functional Analysis of Intermediality: The Case of Twentieth-Century Musicalized Fiction [2002] 3 Intermedialität – ein weites Feld und eine Herausforderung für die Literaturwissenschaft [2002] 4 Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Übertragung literaturwissenschaftlicher Terminologie auf Gegenstände der Kunstwissenschaft: Überlegungen zu einem Weg interdisziplinärer Verständigung am Beispiel von ‘Erzählsituationen’ und ‘Metafiktion’ [2007] 5 The Relevance of Mediality and Intermediality to Academic Studies of English Literature [2008] 6 Intermedialität und mediale Dominanz: typologisch, funktionsgeschichtlich und akademisch-institutionell betrachtet [2010] 7 Intermedialität: Konzept, literaturwissenschaftliche Relevanz, Typologie intermedialer Formen [2014] Part II: Literature-Music Relations 8 Can Stories Be Read as Music? Possibilities and Limitations of Applying Musical Metaphors to Fiction [1992] 9 Musicalized Fiction and Intermediality: Theoretical Aspects of Word and Music Studies [1999] 10 "Willst zu meinen Liedern deine Leier drehn?": Intermedial Metatextuality in Schubert’s “Der Leiermann” as a Motivation for Song and Accompaniment and a Contribution to the Unity of Die Winterreise [2001] 11 Language and/or Music as Man’s 'Comfort'? Beckett’s Metamedial Allegory Words and Music [2005] 12 Metafiction and Metamusic: Exploring the Limits of Metareference [2007] 13 Metamusic? Potentials and Limits of ‘Metareference’ in Instrumental Music: Theoretical Reflections and a Case Study (Mozart’s Ein musikalischer Spaß) [2010] Part III: Transmedial Narratology 14 Das Problem der Narrativität in Literatur, bildender Kunst und Musik: Ein Beitrag zu einer intermedialen Erzähltheorie [2002] 15 Narrative and Narrativity: A Narratological Reconceptualization and its Applicability to the Visual Arts [2003] 16 Narrativity in Instrumental Music? A Prototypical Narratological Approach to a Vexed Question [2008] 17 Narratology and Media(lity): The Transmedial Expansion of a Literary Discipline and Possible Consequences [2011] 18 Framings of Narrative in Literature and the Pictorial Arts [2014] Part IV: Miscellaneous Transmedial Phenomena 19 Intermedial Iconicity in Fiction – Tema con variazioni [2003] 20 Metalepsis as a Transgeneric and Transmedial Phenomenon: A Case Study of the Possibilities of ‘Exporting’ Narratological Concepts [2005] 21 Mise en cadre – a Neglected Counterpart to mise en abyme: A Frame-theoretical and Intermedial Complement to Classical Narratology [2010] 22 Wiederholung bzw. Ähnlichkeit in der (Sprach-)Kunst als sinnstiftende formale Selbstreferenz [2014] Sources Bibliography of Publications on Intermediality by Werner Wolf Index

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Book SynopsisMusic of the Baduy People of Western Java: Singing is a Medicine by Wim van Zanten is about music and dance of the indigenous group of the Baduy, consisting of about twelve-thousand people living in western Java. It covers music for rice rituals, for circumcisions and weddings, and music for entertainment. The book includes many photographs and several discussed audio-visual examples that can be found on DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5170520. Baduy are suppposed to live a simple, ascetic life. However, there is a shortage of agricultural land and there are many temptations from the changing world around them. Little has been published on Baduy music and dance. Wim van Zanten’s book seeks to fill this lacuna and is based on short periods of fieldwork from 1976 to 2016.Table of ContentsPreface Orthography List of Illustrations Audio-Visual Examples (AV) and Music Transcriptions (Tr) 1 Introduction 1.1 The Baduy People of Kanékés Village and Their Music and Dance  1.1.1 The Name of the Indigenous Group 1.2 Overview of Baduy Music and Dance 1.3 Outline of the Book 2 Social Organization and Economic Situation 2.1 Socio-Political Organization and Major Spiritual and Secular Officials 2.2 Dangka Hamlets and Their Role in the Delineation of Baduy Culture 2.3 Agricultural Land, Non-Irrigated Fields and Religion 2.4 Relations with Indonesian Authorities and Cultural Tourism 2.4.1 Hand Phones 2.4.2 Séba 2.5 Non-Governmental Organisations: Trust, Social Justice and Environment 2.6 Weaving, Clothes and Production of Textiles for Sale 2.7 Production of Other Goods 2.7.1 Palm Sugar (gula kawung) 2.7.2 Knives 3 Methodological Issues and Theoretical Starting Points 3.1 Historical Sources and Earlier Publications on Music and Dance 3.2 Restrictions for Researchers and Other Methodological Issues 3.3 Visits to the Holy Places in Kanékés between 1822 and 1931 3.3.1 Blume (1822) 3.3.2 Van Hoëvell (1845) 3.3.3 Koorders (1864) 3.3.4 Criticism by Jacobs and Meijer (1891) and Pennings (1902) 3.3.5 Koolhoven (1931) 3.3.6 Van Tricht (1928) 3.4 Fieldwork Periods Present Author 3.5 Some Theoretical Issues and Definitions 4 Seasons for Music and Major Rituals 4.1 Agricultural Calendar and Musical Seasons 4.2 Angklung Music for the Engagement Ritual of the Goddess of Rice 4.3 Circumcisions and Weddings 4.4 Circumcision in Kadujangkung 4.5 Circumcision in Cicakal Leuwi Buleud 4.6 Weddings and Other Rituals; Some General Observations 5 Tone Systems, angklung, keromong, Dancing and Gender Aspects 5.1 General Musical Concepts: Tone Systems, Modes and Styles of Playing  5.1.1 Transcription of Music for Analysis  5.1.2 Tone Systems 5.2 Angklung for Rituals and for Entertainment 5.3 Keromong (gamelan) 5.4 The History of a Baduy Gamelan between 1976 and 2019 5.4.1 Commentary 5.5 Dancing 5.6 Gender Aspects and Gendék Ceremonial Pounding of Rice 5.6.1 Musicians and Gender 5.6.2 Gendék 6 Carita Pantun Storytelling 6.1 Baduy Oral Literature in the Larger Sundanese Context 6.2 Baduy Pantun Stories 6.3 Pantun Texts and Audio-Visual Recordings since 1905 6.4 Own Recordings and Observations of pantun Storytellers  6.4.1 Direction that the Pantun Performer Should Be Facing 6.5 Recited Text and Performing Aspects of pantun Recitation 7 Song Texts in Music for Entertainment 7.1 Earlier Publications of Song Texts 7.2 Formal Aspects of the Song Texts 7.3 Song Texts Used in Performance by Female Singer Raidah in 2003  7.3.1 Kidung Rahayu  7.3.2 Tepang Sono  7.3.3 Daun Hiris  7.3.4 Jalan  7.3.5 Gunjaér Mundur  7.3.6 Kacang Asin  7.3.7 Bayu-Bayu  7.3.8 Poho Kabalik  7.3.9 Kapergok  7.3.10 Daun Puspa  7.3.11 Ucing-Ucingan 7.4 Major Themes in Other Song Texts  7.4.1 Moral Advice  7.4.2 Hurt by Outsiders  7.4.3 Dirty Words  7.4.4 References to Music and Dance  7.4.5 False Instruments and Social Order 8 Wind, String and Other Instruments 8.1 Kumbang Flute 8.2 Tarawélét Flute 8.3 Lamus Flute and Elét 8.3.1 Elét 8.4 String Instruments 8.4.1 Kacapi Pantun 8.4.2 Siter and Falsetto Voice 8.4.3 Rendo 8.4.4 Viol 8.4.5 Rebab 8.5 Xylophones and Jew’s Harp 8.5.1 Gambang or Gambang Kayu 8.5.2 Calung 8.5.3 Karinding Concluding Remarks 9.1 Negotiating Rules and Mutual Respect  9.1.1 The 2003 unesco Convention on Living Culture 9.2 Safeguarding, Cultural Tourism and Future Research Appendix 1 A Map of Kanékés and a List of Its Hamlets Appendix 2 The Baduy Calendar Appendix 3 List of People Interviewed and/or Recorded Appendix 4 Song Texts for Entertainment Glossary References Index

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Book SynopsisIn this volume, the relationship between Jews and media is not only vividly illustrated, but it is consciously drawn into the formation of modern Jewish history and modern media. Maya Balakirsky Katz addresses key Jewish-media intersections in which Jews and mass media implicated (or were implicated by) one another. In this study, Katz discusses the relationship that Jews have had with mass media forms of print, film, photography, advertising, and postcards within the periods that these media have gained cultural ascendancy. These historical moments are tethered to a broader conversation addressing the major theoretical issues at the center of the discourse on Jews and media. Bearing this mutually constructive relationship in mind, Intersections between Jews and Media offers both a tangible demographic portrait of the real Jews who entered mass media and lays a theoretical and methodological framework for more qualitative analyses.

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Book SynopsisA Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950 is the first publication to deal with the avant-garde in the Nordic countries in this period. The essays cover a wide range of avant-garde manifestations: literature, visual arts, theatre, architecture and design, film, radio, body culture and magazines. It is the first major historical work to consider the Nordic avant-garde in a transnational perspective that includes all the arts and to discuss the role of the avant-garde not only within the aesthetic field but in a broader cultural and political context: the pre-war and wartime responses to international developments, the new cultural institutions, sexual politics, the impact of refugees and the new start after the war.

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Book SynopsisProust et ses peintres réunit des articles - d'ordre historique, génétique, esthétique -, qui étudient selon des angles multiples la place de la peinture dans l'oeuvre de Proust. Étudier les peintres et les tableaux dans la Recherche, c'est se donner un moyen exceptionnel de mieux connaître ses personnages. Et du même coup, c'est mieux pénétrer le sens de cette oeuvre qui intègre les autres arts à la littérature et qui propose, grâce à la peinture, une fusion de la beauté sensorielle, de l'érotisme et de la mémoire.Table of ContentsSophie BERTHO: Avant-propos; Raymonde COUDERC: Cadres proustiens; Philippe BOYER: Vues et peinture d'Odette; Mireille NATUREL: Miss Sacripant et le danseur pasticheur; Emily EELLS: Elstir à l'anglaise; Yasué KATO: Elstir et Corot; Luzius KELLER: Proust au-delà de l'impressionnisme; Luc FRAISSE: Odilon Redon et les métaphores d'Elstir; Kazuyoshi YOSHIKAWA: Elstir: ses asperges et son chapeau haut-de-forme; Annick BOUILLAGUET: Entre Proust et Carpaccio, l'intertexte des livres d'art; J. Theodore JOHNSON, Jr.: Tableaux de genre du souvenir; Bernard BRUN: Proust et ses peintres, éléments bibliographiques et génétiques.

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Book SynopsisDieses Buch bietet zum erstenmal eine zusammenhängende Darstellung der Etymologie von historischen und gegenwartssprachlichen lexikalisierten Farbwortverbindungen. Untersuchungsgegenstand sind Phraseologismen wie blauer Montag ‘freier Montag, Fastnachts-, Karmontag’, Gründonnerstag ‘Donnerstag der Karwoche’, blau sein ‘betrunken sein’, rot sehen ‘wütend werden’, satzförmige Phraseologismen wie Grün ist die Hoffnung, Phraseologismen anderer Sprachen wie ndl. Iem. eene blauwe huik omhangen ‘jmd. betrügen’, ndl. Blauwboekjes ‘Schmähschriften’, frz. conte bleu ‘Lüge’, Lehnübersetzungen wie blaues Blut aus span. sangre azul ‘Adel’ oder Blaustrumpf aus engl. blue stocking ‘intellektuelle Frau’ und ausgestorbene Phraseologismen wie blaue Ente ‘Lüge’. Im Zentrum der Arbeit steht die Frage, wie das Farbadjektiv, ausgehend von der Gesamtbedeutung der Farbwortverbindung, zu seiner Bedeutung gekommen ist. Weshalb bedeutet blau in blauer Montag ‘arbeitsfrei’ und blau in blaues Blut ‘adelig’? Um die Motivation von Benennungen zu erschließen, wird zunächst ermittelt, wann und in welcher Quelle sich die Bezeichnung zum erstenmal nachweisen läßt und welche Bedeutung sich aus dem Belegkontext ergibt. Anhand kulturgeschichtlicher und sprachlicher Angaben ist schließlich die Klärung der Herkunft undurchsichtig gewordener Benennungen möglich. Durch ein Wortregister kann die Arbeit als Nachschlagewerk für Farbwortverbindungen dienen. Da neben der linguistischen Analyse kulturgeschichtliche Zusammenhänge miteinbezogen werden, ist dieses Buch nicht nur für die Sprachwissenschaft, sondern auch für die Literaturwissenschaft, Volkskunde, Kunst- und Rechtsgeschichte interessant. For the first time, this book offers a coherent representation of the etymology of historical and contemporary lexicalised idioms involving colour. The investigation covers idioms such as blauer Montag, meaning ‘Monday off, Monday of carnival week’, Gründonnerstag, ‘Thursday of Holy Week’, blau sein, ‘to be drunk’, rot sehen, ‘to get angry’, idioms in sentence form such as Grün ist die Hoffnung, idioms from other languages, such as the Dutch iem. eene blauwe huik omhangen, ‘to deceive someone’, Blauwboekjes, ‘defamatory writings’, the French conte blue, ‘lie’, loan translations such as blaues Blut from the Spanish sangre azul meaning ‘noble’ or Blaustrumpf from the English blue stocking meaning ‘intellectual woman’ and obsolete idioms such as blaue Ente meaning a ‘lie’. The work focuses on the question as to how the colour adjective went from the overall meaning of the colour word to take on its new meaning. Why does blau mean ‘no work’ in blauer Montag and ‘noble’ in blaues Blut? In order to determine the motivation of the expressions, the first stage was to ascertain when and in what source evidence of the phrase was first found, and what meaning could be deduced from the context of the document. It is then possible to clarify the origin of what are now unfathomable phrases on the basis of cultural, historical and linguistic information. There is an index which means the work can be used a source of reference for colour idioms. As there are cultural and historical contexts as well as purely linguistic analysis, this book is not only useful for language scientists, but also for the study of literature, folklore and the history of art and the law.Trade Review"…einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Farbwort- und zur Phraseologieforschung…" - in: Germanistik, Band 46, Heft 3-4 (2005) "…einen Höhepunkt in der Analyse von Farbphraseologismen… Das Buch is eine wertvolle Fundgrube zu dem komplexen Phänomen der Farbwortverbindungen – eine phraseologische Untersuchung par excellence,… Christiane Wanzeck hat ein wertvolles wissenschaftliches Werk vorgelegt, dat gleichzeitig ein Lesevergnügen darstellt und als Vorbild für weitere Studien dienen sollte." – Wolfgang Mieder, University of Vermont, in: Proverbium 21 (2004) "…absolutely worth reading without any reservation. […] …meets highest academic standards throughout its 428 pages." - in: The Linguist List, Vol. 14-1855 (Thu., Jul. 3, 2003)

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Book SynopsisUn panorama des différentes approches critiques sur le transfert de la page à l'écran offre ici un contexte à la comparaison entre le roman de Laclos et plusieurs de ses adaptations filmiques: Les Liaisons dangereuses 1960 (1959) de Roger Vadim, Dangerous Liaisons (1988) de Stephen Frears, Valmont (1989) de Milos Forman et Cruel Intentions (1999) de Roger Kumble. Prenant en considération le rôle de la lettre en tant qu'agent narratif, cette étude compare les techniques narratives employées dans l'original et dans les adaptations, avant d'examiner le rôle de la lettre en tant qu'agent de l'intrigue et d'analyser chacune des oeuvres. Examinant pour la première fois les problèmes spécifiques posés à l'adaptateur par la forme épistolaire, ce livre, qui propose aussi bien une historique et un état présent de la relation entre les deux genres que de nouveaux aperçus sur cette relation, ne manquera pas d'intéresser, par ses analyses comparées des différentes oeuvres et la documentation qu'elle propose dans ses appendices, les spécialistes de littérature comme de cinéma. Elle offre aussi un précieux outil aux enseignants souhaitant apporter, par le biais de l'adaptation, une nouvelle perspective à leur enseignement de la littérature en général et du roman de Laclos en particulier.Table of ContentsRemerciements. Introduction. Première Partie: Du roman au film. Chaptre 1: Roman et film. Chapitre 2: Roman épistolaire et cinéma. Chapitre 3: L'adaptation cinématographique. Seconde Partie: Les liaisons dangereuses et leurs adaptations filmiques. Introduction. Chapitre 1: Le puzzle narratif. Chapitre 2: Les lignes de force de l'intrigue. Conclusion. Appendices.

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Book SynopsisThis literature-centered study offers an interdisciplinary approach to Romantic culture. If is pioneering in that it employs the complexity method of anthropology. Recent literary studies employ the complexity/chaos theory adapted from the natural sciences; however, here is presented for the first time a complexity method taken from the social/human sciences. This complexity method is useful in mediating not only contradictions within Romanticism, but the chaos of contemporary theories concerning it. One of the intensifying literary debates is that between the so-called “Greens” and “Reds,” naturalists and humanists. Mediating Order and Chaos not only traces the split between nature and man to Romantic Culture but finds there, too, a Spinozian vision of man and nature in unity – thereby denying any naturalist/humanist split. This volume is of interest for those who wish to see essays in the holistic approach to culture. Centering on hydraulics, hydrology, and meteorology, this study examines literature, painting, music, economics, and the rhetoric of science, philosophy, and politics, it therewith demonstrates how the water cycle was transformed into a cosmic metaphor that mediated, in the form of several complex adaptive systems, between the chaos of too much change and that of not enough.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Method, Model and Sub-models The Method: Complexity Theory Applied The Science Sub-Model from Hydrology and Meteorology The Humanities Sub-Model from Literature, Painting, and Music The Political Sub-Model: from Revolutions and Counterrevolutions Source: Fountains Springs How they fit into the water-cycle Flow: Brooks Rivers Waterfalls How they fit into the water-cyle Receptacle Lake Sea Ocean How they fit into the water-cycle Link Clouds and the processes of evaporation and condensation – rain and snow How they complete the cosmic vision of the water-cycle Conclusions: the three complex adaptive systems of the Romantics

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Book SynopsisDer Beginn des Zweiten Weltkrieges liegt mehr als 50 Jahre zurück. Bis heute haben aber die Fragen, mit denen dieses katastrophale Ereignis alle Deutschen konfrontiert, nicht an Bedeutung und Aktualität verloren. Vielmehr fordert das öffentliche Gedächtnis mit jedem Generationswechsel neue Bilder von diesem Krieg. Im Rückblick auf den Zeitraum seit 1945 läßt sich ein Zyklus von Erinnern, Verstummen und erneutem Erinnern ausmachen, der bereits dreifach durchlaufen worden ist. Insofern ist der Umgang mit dem Thema in den deutschen Medien gleich nach Kriegsende auch für die Gegenwart aufschlußreich. Deutungen und Formen des Gedenkens, die heute praktiziert werden, haben selber inzwischen eine Geschichte. Mehrfach glaubte man bereits in beiden Teilen Deutschlands, daß die Schuldfrage gelöst sei und die Kriegserfahrung bewältigt. Jedesmal stellte sich heraus, daß die Deutschen noch immer in der Schuld sind, nicht nur aus der Perspektive ihrer europäischen Nachbarn. Die Beiträge in diesem Band gehen auf den Anfang eines unabgeschlossenen Prozesses zurück. Die Befragung gilt nicht den Menschen, sondern den Medien. Gefragt wird, wie in der Literatur, in der Presse, im Fernsehen und Film in den 40er und 50er Jahren mit dem Krieg umgegangen worden ist, welche Bilder davon die Literatur, die Presse, Fernsehen, Film und Hörspiel anzubieten hatten und welche Tendenzen sich dabei in den beiden deutschen Staaten, in Österreich, Polen und Frankreich nachweisen lassen. Eine Reflexion auf die neunziger Jahre macht das Thema spannend, denn dadurch wird den Bildern vom Krieg, die im wiedervereinigten Deutschland im Umlauf sind, ihr Ort im Zyklus zugewiesen: Ein Beitrag zur wieder nötig gewordenen Orientierung.Trade Review"…sehr lesenswerte Annäherungen…" - in: Zeitschrift für Germanistik XIII (1/2003), pp. 227-229 "…ein gelungener Tagungsband." - in: Filmblatt, 8.Jg., Nr.21 (Winter/Frühjahr 2003), S.111-112Table of ContentsBand II. Kritik der Erinnerung 1. Erinnerungspolitik und Institutionalisierung (Gelenktes Erinnern) Barbara BREYSACH: Joseph Wulfs Zeugenwissen in der deutschen und frühen polnischen Nachkriegsöffentlichkeit. Jeanpaul GOERGEN: Blick nach vorne: Re-orientation-Filme unter HICOG 1949-1952. Jost HERMAND: Die Kriegsschuldfrage im westdeutschen Roman der fünfziger Jahre. Morio Minami: “Schuld” in der japanischen Nachkriegslyrik im Vergleich mit Deutschland. Ursula HEUKENKAMP: Gestörte Erinnerung. Erzählungen vom Luftkrieg. Ingrid PIETRZYNSKI: “Vergessen ist zu einfach. Begreifen muß man!” Der Zweite Weltkrieg in literarischen Sendereihen des DDR-Hörfunks in der zweiten Hälfte der fünfziger Jahre – Literaturauswahl und Lesartendeutungen. Susanne LANWERD: Die Abwesenheit der Subjekte. Zur Konstruktion von Erinnerung in Anna Seghers’ Epigramm der Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück. Olaf HAMANN: Faschistische Literatur in deutschen Bibliotheken – über Aussonderungen und Neuorientierungen im Bestandsaufbau wissenschaftlicher Bibliotheken in der Zeit 1945-1949 am Beispiel der Öffentlichen Wissenschaftlichen Bibliothek Berlin (ÖwiBi). Rainer BENDICK: Zweierlei Entlastung des deutschen Volkes. Die Darstellung des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Schulgeschichtsbüchern der DDR und der BRD. 2. Deutschlandbilder. Christine BARTLITZ: Der Nürnberger Prozeß in Reportagen und Kommentaren des Berliner Rundfunks 1945/46. Horst S. DAEMMRICH: Die Vergangenheit bewahren oder kritisch reflektieren. Gegensätzliche Positionen in der Auseinandersetzung mit dem Krieg. Barbara STELZL-MARX: Der Liebenauer Prozeß: NS-Gewaltverbrechen im Spiegel der Steirischen Nachkriegspresse. Lothar BLUHM: “Nur die Erfahrung kann den Menschen zwingen, das Notwendige zu tun” – Nietzsche-Revisionen im Zeichen des Krieges bei Thomas Mann und Ernst Jünger. Tomasz G. PSZCZÓLKOWSKI: Wandlungen des Deutschlandbildes in der polnischen Publizistik der Nachkriegszeit. Marion GEORGE: Zur Nachkriegs-Rezeption deutschsprachiger Literatur in französischen Zeitschriften (1945-1960). Insa ESCHEBACH: Geschlechtsspezifische Symbolisierungen im Diskurs über Nationalsozialismus und Zweiten Weltkrieg. Wieñczys³aw A. NIEMIROWSKI: Die polnische Rezeption der deutschen Literatur über den Krieg und die NS-Zeit in den Jahren 1945 bis 1961. Dagmar BARNOUW: Zeitlichkeit und Erinnerung: Überlegungen zur Problematik der Schuldfrage. Gerd STECKEL: “Erinnerung oder Gedächtnis”: Walsers Auschwitz-Rede und die Rede über Stalingrad. Astrid VON CHAMIER: Texturen des Unheils: Zur Konstellation Paul Celan und Martin Heidegger. 3. West-östliche Kriegsbilder. Kurt PÄTZOLD: Die frühe Geschichtsschreibung in der DDR über den Zweiten Weltkrieg. Burckhard DÜCKER: Zur unverbrauchten Aktualität des Kriegsthemas im ‘Offenen Brief’. Michael SCHORNSTHEIMER: “Die verschlagenen Augen der Polen” – Kriegserlebnisse und Kriegsdeutung in den Fortsetzungsromanen von Quick und Stern in den fünfziger Jahren. Wolfgang MÜHL-BENNINGHAUS: Vergeßt es nie! Schuld sind sie! Zu Kriegsdeutungen in den audiovisuellen Medien beider deutscher Staaten in den vierziger und fünfziger Jahren. Peter HOFF: “Gewissen in Aufruhr” – Kriegserlebnis und Kriegsdeutung im Fernsehen der DDR der fünfziger Jahre. Stefan ZAHLMANN: Erinnerungen an Erinnerungen. Deutsche Schuld und deutsche Sühne in der filmischen Gedächtnistradition der deutschen Nachkriegszeit. Klaus NAUMANN: Die neunziger Jahre, ein nervöses Jahrzehnt. Deutsche Kriegsbilder am Ende der Nachkriegszeit. Thomas F. SCHNEIDER: Die Re-Installation eines ‘neuen’ alten Kriegsbildes. Steven Spielbergs Saving Private Ryan und die deutsche Sicht auf die Realität des Krieges’.

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Book SynopsisThe present volume is the first to address the interrelationship between Goethe’s scientific thought and work, his ideas on art and literary oeuvre, and chaos and complexity theories. The eleven studies assembled in it treat one or more elements or aspects of this interrelationship, ranging from basic concepts all the way to a model of an aesthetic-scientific methodology. In the process, the authors scrutinize chaos and complexity both as motif and motor of literary texts and nature within various contexts of past and present. The volume should be of interest to literary scholars, scientists, and philosophers of science, indeed, to all those who are interested in the continuities between the humanities and sciences, culture and nature.Table of ContentsForeword Herbert ROWLAND: Foreword: Goethe and No End. Conceptual and Historical Parameters Floyd MERRELL: Order and Chaos, Simplicity and Complexity John A. MCCARTHY: The “Pregnant Point”: Goethe on Complexity, Interdisciplinarity, and Emergence. Goethe’s Science and a Goethean (Philosophy of) Science Gabrielle BERSIER: Goethe’s Geology in Flux: Vulcanism and Neptunism in the Translation of Richard Payne Knight’s Expedition into Sicily and the Italian Journey. Astrida ORLE TANTILLO: Goethe’s Evolutionary Thinking Richard HAGLUND: Visualization and Emergence in Contemporary Physics Tom MELLETT: Goethean Science: Bringing Chaos to Order by Looking Phenomena Right in the I Bruce K. KIRCHOFF: Aspects of a Goethean Science: Complexity and Holism in Science and Art Goethe’s Scientific Thought and His Art Karl J. FINK: Goethe’s Intensified Border James M. van der LAAN: Faust and Textual Chaos Nicholas RENNIE: Between Pascal and Mallarmé: Faust’s Speculative Moment Steven D. MARTINSON: Organizing Chaos: “Organisation” in Herder and Goethe’s Werther and Faust Roundtable Discussion Reactions and Reflections Bibliography General Bibliography of Works Cited Figures

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Book SynopsisAprès la guerre, une réorientation radicale intervient dans la prose de Samuel Beckett : ce changement a trait avant tout à la souffrance. Celle-ci va contaminer tous les aspects de l’expérience humaine. Beckett semble privilégier de plus en plus une histoire débordant les seuls cataclysmes du XXe siècle : l’histoire anonyme et silencieuse d’une humanité torturée depuis des temps immémoriaux et vouée à un sort incompréhensible. Cette lecture de l’œuvre beckettienne s’imprègne des études de Paul Ricœur sur l’identité et le souvenir et aborde la prose de Beckett comme une écriture de la mémoire. Ainsi Watt, dont la genèse est retracée au travers d’un examen des manuscrits, est considéré ici comme un paradigme dans l’écriture de la mémoire et de la souffrance. D’autre part, les ‘German Diaries’, écrits en 1936-7, témoignent de l’intérêt profond de Beckett pour la peinture. Cette étude se penche sur ses réflexions sur l’art et ses réactions face aux icônes religieuses dans le contexte de la souffrance. Les écrits de Ricœur permettent de mieux examiner la manière dont l’œuvre beckettienne se trouve de plus en plus au carrefour d’identités privées et plurielles. Au travers de ces études, la question de la disparition de l’individu, remplacée graduellement par une histoire de la souffrance collective, peut être réévaluée.Table of ContentsRemerciements Abréviations Introduction Ch. 1 : De Dream of Fair to Middling Women à Murphy. La souffrance dans l’œuvre ou l œuvre comme souffrance Ch. 2 : Watt. Traversée silencieuse de la parole Ch. 3 : Beckett et la peinture. L’art comme vision Ch. 4 : La mémoire dans la prose de Samuel Beckett Conclusion, Bibliographie, Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection of 12 essays at the 100th anniversary of Roman Ingarden is to show the actuality of the outstanding Polish representative of twentieth century philosophy. The authors take up Ingarden's main philosophical topics and, accordingly, deal with phenomenological and ontological problems on the various modes of givenness and existence in the wide range of real and intentional being, true and fictional existence, and they devote particular interest to Ingarden's conception of reality as well as to his aesthetics and theory of arts.Table of ContentsIntroduction. W??l??odzimierz GALEWICZ: Das Problem des Seinsstatus der gegenständlichen Sinne und Ingardens Ontologie der rein intentionalen Gegenstände. Liselotte GUMPEL: Language as bearer of meaning: The phenomenology of Roman Ingarden. Gregor HAEFLIGER: Ens multipliciter dicitur. The ingardian variant of an old thesis. Andrzej PO??L??TAWSKI: Painting and the structure of consciousness. Remarks on Roman Ingarden's Theory of Painting. Josef SEIFERT and Barry SMITH: The truth about fiction. Peter M. SIMONS: Strata in Ingarden's ontology. Elisabeth STRÖKER: Fiktive Welt im literarischen Kunstwerk. Zu einer Kontroverse zwischen Roman Ingarden und Käte Hamburger. W??l??adys??l??aw STRO_EWSKI: Art and participation. Edward M. SWIDERSKI: Individual essence in Ingarden's ontology. Pawe??l?? TARANCZEWSKI: What Ingarden has to say to painters. Adam WEGRZECKI: The function of ontology and experience in Roman Ingarden's axiological investigations. Jan WOLENSKI: Sentences, propositions and quasi-propositions.

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Book SynopsisEric Gill (18821940) is one of the twentieth century's most controversial artists. This illustrated introduction focuses on the clarity of Gill's drawn and cut line. It explores his genius as a letter cutter, wood engraver, sculptor and typographer in the light of his refined finished drawings and preparatory sketches.

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Book SynopsisIdeal as a spur to creative inspiration, this beautiful book offers a striking and unusual view of the wide array of Pacific art, evoking the skills of the most accomplished Pacific artists and craftworkers, past and present.

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Book SynopsisUncover the artistic masterworks hidden across New York City in this charmingly illustrated exploration of one of the world's greatest creative treasure troves.There's so much to love about New York, and so much to see. The city is full of art, and architecture, and history -- and not just in museums. Hidden in plain sight, in office building lobbies, on street corners, and tucked into Soho lofts, there's a treasure trove of art waiting to be discovered, and you don't need an art history degree to fall in love with it.Art Hiding in New York is a beautiful, giftable book that explores all of these locations, traversing Manhattan to bring 100 treasures to art lovers and intrepid New York adventurers. Curator and urban explorer Lori Zimmer brings readers along to sites covering the biggest names of the 20th century -- like Jean-Michel Basquiat's studio, iconic Keith Haring murals, the controversial site of Richard Serra's Ti

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Book SynopsisThis book contains reproductions of sketches taken from a notebook made by Gerhard Richter between 2004 and 2009.

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Book SynopsisStreet Art Fine Art presents a collection of classic works of fine art by the old masters reinterpreted by today's most cutting-edge street artists.

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Book SynopsisOver the past decade, German artist Michael Riedel has incorporated a wide range of media into his practice, including large-scale works on canvas, fabric works, film and video, audio recordings, installations, and events. A central focus of his work is the publishing and production of artist’s books, catalogues, brochures, posters, and cards. In 2000, Riedel and Dennis Loesch launched a collaborative project in an abandoned building in Frankfurt. Using the building’s address—Oskar-von-Miller Strasse 16—as the name for their new space, they created an experimental laboratory where they restaged cultural events held at other locations throughout the city, effectively duplicating them in space and time. Occasionally, these re-presented events—which included book readings, film screenings, art exhibitions, and music concerts—were hosted on the same night as the actual event elsewhere in the city, but mostly, they were presented days or weeks after the o

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Book SynopsisWhen the body is foregrounded in artwork  as in much contemporary performance, sculptural installation and video work so is gendered and sexualised difference. Feminist Perspectives on Art: Contemporary Outtakes looks to interactions between art history, theory, curation, and studio-based practices to theorise the phenomenological import of this embodied gender difference in contemporary art.The essays in this collection are rooted in a wide variety of disciplines, including art-making, curating, and art history and criticism, with many of the authors combining roles of curator, artist and writer. This interdisciplinary approach enables the book to bridge the theorypractice divide and highlight new perspectives emerging from creative arts research. Fresh insights are offered on feminist aesthetics, women's embodied experience, curatorial and art historical method, art world equity, and intersectional concerns. It engages with epistemological assertions of Trade Review"A rousing riposte to anyone who thinks that feminism is now ‘post’, this book full of fascinating accounts of a disparate range of practises provides a challenge to patriarchal attitudes in the artworld in engaging, enlightening and at times humorous ways – a veritable celebration of female creativity and thought." - Elizabeth Ann Macgregor OBE, Director, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia"A rousing riposte to anyone who thinks that feminism is now ‘post’, this book is full of fascinating accounts of a disparate range of practises and provides a challenge to patriarchal attitudes in the artworld in engaging, enlightening and, at times, humorous ways – a veritable celebration of female creativity and thought." -- Elizabeth Ann Macgregor OBE, Director, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia "The volume edited by Jacqueline Millner and Catriona Moore shows the difficulty and weariness caused by the writing of a history that is never dealt with and carried out once and for all." -- Laura Lamurri, Critique d'artTable of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1 A feminist curator walks into a gallery…; Chapter 2 The value of maturity: Anne Ferran, Judith Wright, Lindy Lee; Chapter 3 Women in the Cross-cultural Studio: Invisible Tracks in the Indigenous artist’s archive; Chapter 4 The Pearl Gibbs ‘Gambanyi’ Kangaroo Cloak; Chapter 5 Still in my mind: Gurindji location, experience and visuality; Chapter 6 The practice of remaining perpetually contingent; Chapter 7 Curating Grief; Chapter 8 The Intimate Monument: Memorialising from a feminist perspective; Chapter 9 FLORINA PREFECTURE: Women in the shadow of ‘The Magnificent Empire’ 1900-1922 & 2017 — a feminist interpretation of Greek-Australian identity as explored in contemporary art; Chapter 10 Feeling seeing: image, sound and touch in the video installations of Angelica Mesiti; Chapter 11 Materialising the Interval: Relationality as a feminist art practice; Chapter 12 Heave, Ho, Ha: Disgust, humour and failure in contemporary feminist art; Chapter 13 Slim evidence of fat fortunes: toward a gendered history of fat acceptance

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Book SynopsisIn the age of digital communication and global capitalism, people's mental, social and natural environments are interconnected in complex and often unpredictable ways. This book focuses on the visual media, one of the key factors in shaping the contemporary ecology of colliding environments. Case-studies include video artists, community media activists, television programme makers and literary authors in the fourth most populous country in the world, Indonesia. The author demonstrates that these actors are part of an international creative and social vanguard that reflect on, criticise and rework the multidimensional impact of the visual media in imaginative and innovative ways. Their work explores alternative and more sustainable presents and futures for Indonesia and the world. This research is urgent and timely, as Indonesia has emerged in recent years as one of the world's most vibrant hubs for contemporary art and media experimentation.Using an innovative interdisTable of Contents1. Introduction Part 1: Media Environments 2. Media Critique 3. Media Literacy Part 2: Media Reflexivity 4. Media Democracy 5. Video Bodies 6. Video Interactivity Part 3. Media Utopia 7. Participatory Media 8. Video Communities 9. Video Simulations Part 4: Media Ecologies 10. Sustainable Media 11. Disaster Media 12. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisWritten in the context of unprecedented dislocation and a global refugee crisis, this edited volume thinks through photography's long and complex relationship to human migration. While contemporary media images largely frame migration in terms of trauma, victimhood, and pity, so much more can be said of photography's role in the movement of people around the world. Cameras can document, enable, or control human movement across geographical, cultural, and political divides. Their operators put faces on forced and voluntary migrations, making visible hardships and suffering as well as opportunity and optimism. Photographers include migrating subjects who take pictures for their own consumption, not for international recognition. And photographs themselves migrate with their makers, subjects, and viewers, as the very concept of photography takes on new functions and meanings.Photography and Migration places into conversation media images and other phoTable of ContentsList of MapsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsAbout the ContributorsChapter 1Photography and Migration: KeywordsTanya Sheehan(Im)mobilityChapter 2Back to America: Photography and Japanese Americans from Incarceration to ResettlementJasmine Alinder Chapter 3Residential School Photographs: The Visual Rhetoric of Indigenous Removal and ContainmentCarol WilliamsChapter 4Animating Death: Stills That MigrateAnne Teresa DemoBorderChapter 5The Razor’s Edge: Image and Corpo-reality at Europe’s BordersParvati NairChapter 6Fantasy Islands: Photography, Empathy, and Australia’s Detention ArchipelagoJane LydonChapter 7The Indecisive Moment: Photoethnography on the Undocumented Migration TrailJason De LeónRefugeeChapter 8Refugee Photography and the Subject of Human InterestThy PhuChapter 9Feelings, Facebook, Forced Migration: Photographs of Refugees and Affective Spaces OnlineMarta ZarzyckaChapter 10The Visual Politics of Climate RefugeesT. J. DemosDiasporaChapter 11Photography and Diaspora: A RoundtableAnthony W. Lee with Pok Chi Lau, Surendra Lawoti, and Wei Leng TayChapter 12Intimacy Out of Doors: Landscape, Labor, and Chinese Diasporic Practices of LookingNadine AttewellChapter 13Kan Azuma and the Japanese Canadian Diaspora: Perception, Identity, and Their ErosionMartha Langford

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Book SynopsisFocusing on fieldcraft techniques for macro and close-up photography, Thompson covers the vital but often overlooked skills necessary to achieve consistent professional results in the field. Case studies covering a broad and often challenging group of subjects from the seashore to your back garden form the core of the lavishly illustrated book. Biology, life history, subject behaviour and ethics along with best practice approaches are discussed in detail and underpinned with photographic tips. The book is divided into four sectionsDigital Fundamentals, Fieldcraft & Methodology, Portfolio Case Studies, Digital Workflow & Presentationcovering the full photographic process from capture through to editing, captioning, development and storage are discussed. Moving beyond the surface-level approach to macro instruction, this book provides readers with techniques that work in the field. Illustrated with over 250 of the author''s own inspiring images, this publicTrade Review"Every image is accompanied by details of the camera used, lens, focal distance, aperture, and ISO. He reveals natural and artificial lighting techniques, as well as tricks of the trade, learned over years and years of dedicated fieldcraft. The emphasis is very much on ‘art and fieldcraft.’ But the author also emphasizes the importance of ethics in nature photography, something that we as photographers must adhere to at all times. His dedication to capturing his subjects in camera and his incredible knowledge is inspirational. Each page oozes with information that every bona fide nature photographer should know."—Bill Power, FIPF, ARPS, EFIAP/s, EPSA; Fellow of the Irish Photographic Federation"This is both a beautiful and intensely-practical book from a master of his trade, covering everything you could need or want to know in order to improve your close-up photography of butterflies, moths and other wildlife. Set out in four parts, the book covers all the fundamentals of digital photography and kit, fieldcraft and methodology, case studies and a brief section on processing and presenting your images.Lavishly illustrated with Robert Thompson’s superb images, not just of Lepidoptera but a wide range of subject from fungi to fish, this book is a joy to browse as well as a fount of information and hands-on tips."—Richard Fox, Butterfly-Conservation.org"Close-up and Macro Photography focuses on fieldcraft techniques and is divided into four neat sections: Digital Fundamentals, Fieldcraft & Methodology, Portfolio Case Studies and Digital Workflow & Presentation. Each section is generously illustrated with the author’s wonderful images, and the text is full of hard-won knowledge: who knew, for instance, that the pupae of some moths resembles polished wood? Whether you are a keen close-up photographer or a passionate naturalist, this book will satisfy your needs."—Tracy Calder, Amateur Photographer Magazine – March 2018"With Robert Thompson, you have an author and photographer at the top of his game ... This book provides a very good level of knowledge without being inaccessible on the one hand or of being guilty of trivialisation on the other."—Paul Harcourt Davies, learnmacro.com"It doesn’t matter if you are a complete beginner, or an experienced enthusiast, this book sets the benchmark for all future books on close-up and macro photography. If you are a professional photographer, then this book is also of immense value to you. Why? Because it represents a superb example of what us amateurs want from a photography book—full of extremely useful advice set out in a clear and concise manner, together with stunning images throughout that we all want to strive for."—Robert Kent, MacroPhotographyWorld.comTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION PART ONE DIGITAL FUNDAMENTALSHAVING A PHOTOGRAPHIC ROADMAP DIGITAL CAMERAS TRIPODS & CAMERA SUPPORT DEVICES EXPOSURE AND METERING MODES UNDERSTANDING ISO APERTURE DEPTH OF FIELD UNDERSTANDING WHITE BALANCE FILE FORMATS MEMORY CARDS HISTOGRAMS LENSES LIGHT UNDERSTANDING FLASH EXTENDED DEPTH OF FIELD BACKGROUNDS CUSTOM-DESIGNED EQUIPMENT PART TWO FIELDCRAFT & METHODOLOGYSETTING UP YOUR CAMERA FOR MACRO COMPOSITION & ORIENTATION IN THE FIELD WIDE-ANGLE MACRO MACRO ON THE MOVE THE OUTDOOR FIELD STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHING FURTHER AFIELD PHOTOGRAPHING IN CHALLENGING CONDITIONS MACRO THROUGH THE SEASONS BEYOND LIFE-SIZE ACCESSORIES FOR MACRO MY FIELD EQUIPMENT FILTERS PART THREE PORTFOLIO CASE STUDIESJEWELS OF THE INSECT WORLD (Dragonflies & Damselflies) MEADOW DANCERS (Butterflies) NATURE’S NOCTURNAL BUTTERFLIES (Moths) LIFE IN THE FOLIAGE (The Larval Phase of Butterflies & Moths) NATURE’S FLORAL GARDEN (Plants) THE KINGDOM OF THE UNDERWORLD (Fungi) LIFE IN FRESHWATER (The Aquatic Environment) LIFE ON THE SHORELINE (Coastal Creatures & Rockpools) PATTERNS ON BARK & STONE (Lichens) NATURE’S GRAND DESIGNS (Patterns & Abstracts)NATURE ON YOUR DOORSTEP (Macro in the Garden) PART FOUR DIGITAL WORKFLOW & PRESENTATIONDIGITAL WORKFLOW & PRESENTATION CONTACT DISPLAYS & PANELS PRESENTING & PUBLISHING YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS ADDITIONAL RESOURCESINDEX

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Book SynopsisBooks orient, intrigue, provoke and direct the reader while editing, interpreting, encapsulating, constructing and revealing architectural representation. Binding Space: The Book as Spatial Practice explores the role of the book form within the realm of architectural representation. It proposes the book itself as another three-dimensional, complementary architectural representation with a generational and propositional role within the design process. Artists' books in particular that is, a book made as an original work of art, with an artist, designer or architect as author have certain qualities and characteristics, quite different from the conventional presentation and documentation of architecture. Paginal sequentiality, the structure and objecthood of the book, and the act of reading create possibilities for the book as a site for architectural imagining and discourse. In this way, the form of the book affects how the architectural work is conceived, constructed Table of ContentsPart I Field: the scope of the book. 1. Artists’ books: historical context2 Qualities and characteristics of artists’ books3 Architecture and printed media4 Recording time, place and memoryPart II Page: the book as cumulation5 The line within architectural documentation6 Architectural drawing and the pagePart III Volume: the book as vessel7 The objecthood of the book8 The book as folded model9 The temporality of interiorityPart IV Series: the book as sequence10 The reproducibility of drawings / buildings / books11 The book as exhibitionConclusion BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisBeholding considers the spatially situated encounter between artwork and spectator. It argues that artworks created for specific places or conditions structure a reciprocal encounter, which is completed by the presence of a beholder. These are works which demand the ''beholder''s share'', but not, as Ernst Gombrich famously claimed, to sustain an illusion. Rather, Beholding reconfigures Gombrich''s notion of the beholder''s share as a set of ''licensed'' imaginative and cognitive projections.Each chapter frames a particular work of art from the remit of a complementary theoretical text. The book establishes a transhistorical notion of the spatially situated encounter, and considers the role of the architectural host in bringing the beholder's orientation into play. The book engages a diverse range of practices: from Renaissance painting and group portraiture to intermedia practices of installation and performance art. Written within the broad remit of reception aestheticsTrade ReviewA beautifully-written interdisciplinary book that acknowledges the permeability of the once strong divisions that separated art, architecture, the cinema and design. Artist and theorist Ken Wilder explains, through his theory of beholding, how the audience’s viewing conditions can shape their understanding of an art work. -- Stephen Farthing, artist, UKTable of ContentsList of Plates List of Figures Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Sacred Imagery Chapter 1: The Beholder As Witness Chapter 2: Of Clouds and Terrestrial Beholders Chapter 3: The Melancholic Beholder Part II: Group Portraiture Chapter 4: The Artist as Beholder Chapter 5: Two Modes of Beholding Chapter 6: Theatricality and the Beholder PART III: Abstraction Chapter Seven: Beholding a ‘Reversible’ Space Chapter Eight: Virtual Space and the ‘Literal’ Beholder Chapter Nine: On Repetition and Beholding PART IV: Intermedia Chapter Ten: The Complicit Beholder Chapter Eleven: The Beholder in the Expanded Field Chapter Twelve: The Dislocated Beholder Bibliography Notes

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Book SynopsisThis book celebrates and seeks to understand the overlooked appearances of hybrid forms in visual culture; artefacts and practices that meld or interweave incongruous elements in innovative ways. And with an emphasis on the material aspects of such entities, the book adopts the term ''mixed form'' for them.Focusing on key phenomena in the last half millennium, such as the cabinet of curiosities, the broadside ballad and the chapbook as early forms of image-text, the scrapbook, assemblage, and, in digital times, so-called ''mixed reality,'' the book argues that while the quality of inconsistency is traditionally dismissed, its expression nevertheless plays a vital role in social life.Crucially, Mixed Forms of Visual Culture relates its phenomena to the emergence of the division of labour under capitalism and addresses the shifting relationships between art and life, when singularity and uniformity are variously valued and dismissed in the two arenas, and at different points in hiTrade Reviewit is a pleasure to follow the author on her historical and taxonomic crossing of the world of mixed form, from the Renaissance and post-Renaissance cabinet of curiosities till today’s digital creations, over popular genres such as the broadsheet, the chapbook and the scrapbook – all well documented and cleverly illustrated. The visual material of the book is refreshing and often very original, while the comments are always helpful as well as consistently structured in function of the underlying general question of the link with division of labor. * Jan Baetens, Leonardo *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Mixtures of all sorts 1. The cabinet of curiosities as mixed form: depictions and desire 2. Mixed form in working life: the rise of manufacture 3. Popular mixed forms in a long eighteenth century: from the broadside ballad to the chapbook 4. Visual essay 5. Mixed-form and modernism in the visual arts: assemblage and assembly lines 6. Visual essay 7. Digital culture as Wunderkammer Conclusion: A synthesis of sorts Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFocusing on artists and architectural complexes which until now have eluded scholarly attention in English-language publications, Apostolic Iconography and Florentine Confraternities in the Age of Reform examines through their art programs three different confraternal organizations in Florence at a crucial moment in their histories. Each of the organizations that forms the basis for this study oversaw renovations that included decorative programs centered on the apostles. At the complex of Gesà Pellegrino a fresco cycle represents the apostles in their roles as Christâs disciples and proselytizers. At the oratory of the company of Santissima Annunziata a series of frescoes shows their martyrdoms, the terrible price the apostles paid for their mission and their faith. At the oratory of San Giovanni Battista detta dello Scalzo a sculptural program of the apostles stood as an example to each confratello of how Christian piety had its roots in collective effort. Douglas Dow shows thatTrade Review'This impressive volume by Dow ... helps fill a scholarly void in books on religious painting in the last quarter of the 16th century in Florence. ... The text is meticulous and scholarly, supported by copious notes, bibliography, and original illustrations appropriate to such an ambitious and groundbreaking study. ... Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty.’ Choice 'Dow's book uses a rich quantity of illustrations to make his point, both plans and reproductions of the frescoes and some of the statues ... Dow brings to light much detail regarding the confraternities' organisation and motivation in commissioning new works of art both as embellishment of the oratories and as education material for the confratelli.' Sehepunkte 'More than just a window onto a neglected field, it is a thorough, meticulous study based on archival research and stylistic analysis, in one case including a methodical reconstruction of a long-lost interior. It represents the kind of scholarship that has too often fallen by the wayside in an era when detail (and often accuracy) are neglected in favour of the big, interdisciplinary picture. Contributions such as Dow's are especially needed in places like post-Tridentine Florence, where the literature simply has not yet done the groundwork: we will not be able to see the big picture until we get our facts straight.' Burlington Magazine '... Dow focuses new attention on Florentine confraternal identification with the apostles at a time when the Church was asserting its own claims as a purified paleo- Christian institution. This exemplifies yet another dynamic way in which sodalities responded to and shaped the prevailing religious culture.' Renaissance Quarterly'This important, lucid, and elegantly written book is in part a product of the spatial and sensory turn that has driven much recent research. It will be of interest not only to art historians but also to scholars in other disciplines who are concerned with the process by which traditional forms of devotion, and the desired ends of Church reformers, converged and mingled with the city’s artisan culture and patronage relations. In a wider sense, Dow’s evocation of the resulting mélange, and his explication of how urban culture took visual and spatial form, teaches us more about how citizens, including non-elites, inhabited and negotiated the early modern European city.' CAA ReviewsTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Alessandro de’ Medici and the Florentine archdiocese at the end of the cinquecento; ’Maledictus enim homo, qui opus Dei facit negligenter’: Giovanni Balducci’s frescoes of the Risen Christ and the Apostles in the church of Gesù Pellegrino; ’Essere amorevole della casa’: the sculptures of the Apostles in the oratory of San Giovanni Battista detta dello Scalzo; ’Far bene per i vivi, e morti’: the frescoes of the martyrdoms of the Apostles in the atrium of the oratory of Santissima Annunziata; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThough Bartolomeo Scappi''s Opera (1570), the first illustrated cookbook, is well known to historians of food, up to now there has been no study of its illustrations, unique in printed books through the early seventeenth century. In Food and Knowledge in Renaissance Italy, Krohn both treats the illustrations in Scappi''s cookbook as visual evidence for a lost material reality; and through the illustrations, including several newly-discovered hand-colored examples, connects Scappi''s Opera with other types of late Renaissance illustrated books. What emerges from both of these approaches is a new way of thinking about the place of cookbooks in the history of knowledge. Krohn argues that with the increasing professionalization of many skills and trades, Scappi was at the vanguard of a new way of looking not just at the kitchen-as workshop or laboratory-but at the ways in which artisanal knowledge was visualized and disseminated by a range of craftsmen, from engineers to architects. The Trade Review'In Food and Knowledge in Renaissance Italy, Deborah Krohn brings much needed attention to the genre of culinary illustration. For far too long, even scholars who are fully focused on food's roles in culture have failed to address the work that images perform in cookbooks. By bringing close attention to the first illustrated European cookbook, Krohn helps to lay the groundwork for future work on this topic.'- Journal of Design History'Deborah Krohn tackles what has to be considered by far the most important cookbook of the Renaissance: Bartolomeo Scappi's Opera. Known not only for its massive text but also for its much reproduced illustrations, it has remained in many ways a somewhat mysterious unicum in the realm of high end cookery. Now, thanks to an innovative approach mixing book history, food history and the history of illustration in the sixteenth century, Scappi's cookbook finally finds its place in the context of sixteenth century publishing, a dynamic market in which both authors and publishers experimented with innovative formulas. A welcome contribution in more than one field.' - Allen Grieco, Villa I Tatti, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, ItalyTable of ContentsTable of Contents to come.

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Book SynopsisIn recent years, art historians have begun to delve into the patronage, production and reception of sculptures-sculptors'' workshop practices; practical, aesthetic, and esoteric considerations of material and materiality; and the meanings associated with materials and the makers of sculptures. This volume brings together some of the top scholars in the field, to investigate how sculptors in early modern Italy confronted such challenges as procurement of materials, their costs, shipping and transportation issues, and technical problems of materials, along with the meanings of the usage, hierarchies of materials, and processes of material acquisition and production. Contributors also explore the implications of these facets in terms of the intended and perceived meaning(s) for the viewer, patron, and/or artist. A highlight of the collection is the epilogue, an interview with a contemporary artist of large-scale stone sculpture, which reveals the similar challenges sculptors still encountTrade Review'The book takes up two topics that are almost never considered together - how sculpture is made, and then, how it gets to its destination. The geographical sweep is refreshingly broad, up and down the Italian peninsula and westward into France and Spain. The well-written essays by notable scholars cover a range of media and types of commissions, from Donatello’s sculpture for the High Altar in the Santo in Padua to Bernini’s work in the San Pietro fabbrica. The wealth of material presented here sheds light on important sculptural works about which we may have thought nothing new could be said.' Debra Pincus, independent scholar, Washington, D.C., US 'Making and Moving Sculpture in Early Modern Italy recognizes the physicality and mass that distinguish sculpture, from its glittering surfaces to its interior core. It addresses overlooked areas of art-making by refocusing on some of the most basic and compelling issues of the sculptor, namely the practical considerations of creating, moving, and otherwise engineering the three-dimensional object. With essays by leading scholars and a practicing sculptor, the book is a fitting complement to the more interpretive and abstract studies that currently dominate scholarship in the visual arts ... an original and timely contribution to the field of early modern sculpture.' Victor Coonin, Rhodes College, USA'Making and Moving Sculpture in Early Modern Italy is certainly an important addition to the growing field of studies on the mobility and materiality of sculpture, and it offers new insights on many aspects of the history of sculpture that will certainly have a lasting impact on the field and provide materials for further studies and reflections on the variety of themes addressed. The wealth of new evidence and ideas emerging from this book makes it a mandatory addition to the library of any scholar interested in sculpture.' CAA ReviewsTable of ContentsTable of Contents to come.

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Book SynopsisExplores how Islamic art and architecture were made: their materials and their social, political, economic and religious context

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Book SynopsisThis illustrated book aims to provide a fresh insight into medieval Islamic art through the prism of Chinese elements in Iranian art under the Mongols.

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