Search results for ""Author Uwe Fleckner""
Hatje Cantz The Snake and the Lightning: Aby Warburg's American Journey
Aby Warburg in America: An Album When Aby Warburg left for the United States in September 1895, it was not foreseeable that his search for the symbolic foundations of art would become one of the most fascinating events in the history of his field. Warburg’s American journey lasted only months, and his stay in the Pueblo communities only a few weeks, but in 1923 he presented his findings in the groundbreaking lecture on the “Snake Ritual”. Using selected photographs, ethnologic drawings, and numerous documents, this story and picture book details a journey of discovery. It traverses a vast continent of research, showing Warburg’s diverse interlocutors — from chiefs to missionaries — and especially his records of dances, ritual objects, and artworks full of symbolic representations. The documents are evidence of the emerging shift in Warburg’s scholarly thinking, which would eventually lead to the cross-border cultural comparative methodology for which he is now held in worldwide esteem.
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De Gruyter Hermeneutik des Gesichts: Das Bildnis im Blick aktueller Forschung
The portrait has been characterized as an art-form of contradictions since its very beginnings to the art of today. The genre is faced with the challenge of recording an individual and his or her character as a strictly specified object and, at the same time, of creating a work of art in its own right. Hence, various forms of portraiture are faced with an aesthetic conflict of solutions that oscillate between similarity to the subject and greatly abstracted works of invention. This volume collects the contributions of the homonymous "International Warburg College" of the University of Hamburg and is dedicated to the genre of portraiture across various media as well as its entire thematic range. Case studies by international authors examine the broad range of issues involved in this genre: from the exploration of the individual in the portrait, to the political function of the genre; from the stylization of the individual to mask, role, and type; and to the artists' strategies of presentation in the self-portrait.
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De Gruyter The Afterlife of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg: The Emigration and the Early Years of the Warburg Institute in London
On December 13, 1933, the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg left its home in Hamburg and went into exile in London, salvaging the books and image collection of its founder Aby Warburg. The scholarly arrival of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek in the intellectual life of the British metropolis, which, in 1944, finally resulted in the integration of the Warburg Institute in the University of London, started an ongoing process of intellectual exchange between German and English research traditions that is still going on today. Essays by internationally renowned scholars, among them many witnesses to the Warburg Institute's intellectual work of the early years, are dedicated to how the intellectual approach of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek contributed to the English scholar community. The publication also examines how the move to London affected the research of the K.B.W. and how it made the Warburg Institute one of the world's most important humanities research facilities.
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De Gruyter Magische Bilder: Techniken der Verzauberung in der Kunst vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart
Magische Bilder werden gemeinhin frühen Epochen oder »primitiven« Kulturstufen der Menschheit zugewiesen. Seit der Antike sind Bildbestrafungen bekannt, bei denen die magische Präsenz des Menschen im Kunstwerk angenommen wird. Doch die historischen Bilderstürme haben selbst in unserer aufgeklärten Gegenwart ein faszinierendes Nachleben, etwa in den Attacken auf Denkmäler oder Wahlplakate. Das afrikanische Kultobjekt, das wundertätige Madonnenbild und der Talisman, aber auch das bildliche Substitut eines Rock- oder Filmstars, der im Bild verehrt wird – sie alle stellen die Forschung vor vergleichbare Herausforderungen. Der vorliegende Band untersucht magische Bilder in anthropologischer sowie medialer Perspektive und kommt so der Frage näher zu, was ein Kunstwerk zum magischen Bild macht.
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De Gruyter Vorträge aus dem Warburg-Haus
Der 16. Band der Vorträge aus dem Warburg-Haus versammelt Beiträge, deren inhaltiches Spektrum von den Wahrnehmungsoptionen spätantiker und mittelalterlicher Mosaiken im Licht moderner Reproduktionstechniken über die "Spinnerinnen" von Diego Velázquez, das Nachleben von Théodore Géricaults "Floß der Medusa" und René Magrittes "images peintes" bis zu neuen Überlegungen zu Weiblichkeit, dem gebrochenen Blick und dem "Nachleben" der Shoah bei Boris Lurie reicht. Mit Beiträgen von Barbara Schellewald, Victor I. Stoichita, Gregor Wedekind, Wolfram Picher und Katharina Sykora.
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De Gruyter Vorträge aus dem Warburg-Haus
Der 16. Band der Vorträge aus dem Warburg-Haus versammelt Beiträge, deren inhaltiches Spektrum von den Wahrnehmungsoptionen spätantiker und mittelalterlicher Mosaiken im Licht moderner Reproduktionstechniken über die "Spinnerinnen" von Diego Velázquez, das Nachleben von Théodore Géricaults "Floß der Medusa" und René Magrittes "images peintes" bis zu neuen Überlegungen zu Weiblichkeit, dem gebrochenen Blick und dem "Nachleben" der Shoah bei Boris Lurie reicht. Mit Beiträgen von Barbara Schellewald, Victor I. Stoichita, Gregor Wedekind, Wolfram Picher und Katharina Sykora.
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De Gruyter Kunst, Konflikt, Kollaboration: Hildebrand Gurlitt und die Moderne
Hildebrand Gurlitt zählte zu jenen Kunsthändlern, die sich an dem Verkauf der 1937 in deutschen Museen als „entartet" beschlagnahmten Kunstwerke beteiligten. Rund 400 Kunstwerke aus dem Kontext der Einziehung verblieben in seinem Besitz. Sie befinden sich heute als Legat Cornelius Gurlitt im Kunstmuseum Bern. Der Band basiert auf umfangreichen Forschungen zur Entstehung des Kunstbesitzes Hildebrand Gurlitts. Die Beiträge thematisieren die Positionierung des Museumsleiters und Kurators Gurlitt zur deutschen Moderne und seine Rolle als Kunsthändler während des Nationalsozialismus und in der Nachkriegszeit. Die Autor:innen analysieren Gurlitts Rolle im Kontext des Kunsthandels, der nationalsozialistischen Kunst- und Verfolgungspolitik und problematisieren die Strategien des Kunstbetriebs nach 1945. Der Katalog enthält alle Kunstwerke im Legat Cornelius Gurlitt mit belegtem Bezug zur Aktion „Entartete Kunst" sowie Reproduktionen zentraler Dokumente.
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Hatje Cantz Lightning Symbol and Snake Dance: Aby Warburg and Pueblo Art
The legacy of the art and cultural scientist Aby Warburg offers many subjects for reassessment. Almost unknown until now are the artifacts he collected on a journey through the southwest of the US in 1895/96 and donated to the Museum für Völkerkunde in Hamburg (today Museum am Rothenbaum). The results first unfolded in Warburg's famous lecture on the “snake ritual” of the Hopi (1923). Following Warburg’s transdisciplinary approach, this publication examines his guiding principles in assembling his collection as well as his reading of Pueblo art and culture. It pays tribute to the works and their artistic significance and sheds light on the circumstances of acquisition in the sociopolitical environment of the Pueblo communities of the time. The contemporary fascination with the snake ritual is also a topic. Set against this are the previously neglected perspectives and strategies of Pueblo leaders to regain interpretive sovereignty over culturally sensitive content and imagery.
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De Gruyter Memorial Landscapes: World Images East and West
As an everyday fact and an object of artistic design, landscape is a central category of human experience. Political, social, cartographic, and economic, but also philosophical and aesthetic references define historically changing concepts of landscape, which are considered here from both a Western and Asian perspective. Nature is staged as a space of experience in artworks, and the "memorial landscapes" thus created are examined based on examples of Asian, European, and American painting from the Middle Ages to the modern age. A look is thus taken at aspects of the formation of national and cultural identity, the transnational transfer of concepts of landscape, and political, religious, and legal, as well as medical references.
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