Kategorie: Kunstgeschichte
Pour les habitants de la région parisienne, Saint-Cloud représente aujourd’hui un vaste parc propice à la détente et à la pratique d’activités sportives ou ludiques le week-end. Lieu empreint de calme et de sérénité à…
In the preface to the 50th anniversary edition of his Pulitzer prize winning study, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, the Harvard historian Bernard Bailyn reflects back on his book’s original argument of 1967, one based on an unprecedented attention to the language and rhetoric of the manifold political pamphlets that circulated in the American colonies between 1760 and 1776. Towards the end of his retrospection, Bailyn underlines …
How can exile and migration be examined under a glocal, urbanistic perspective? The public panel series “Urban Exile” enriches the theory and methodology of research on exile, cities and modernities. The three sessions are...
Au sein du château de Versailles, la peinture, de concert avec les autres arts, est au service de la gloire du roi et du royaume. Elle participe par là même à la magnificence du lieu…
La revista INDIANA, creada en 1973 y publicada por el Instituto Ibero-Americano en Berlín, es un foro para investigaciones sobre las sociedades y culturas multiétnicas, indígenas y afro-americanas de América Latina y el Caribe tanto en e…
“[…] I the last weeke put into the hands of Mr Smith a book seller liveing at the Princes Armes in Pauls Churchyard 26 Draughts of the inhabitants of severall remote parts of the world espetially the East Indies […] For the excellency of the drawing I will not answer they being don by my boy who hath faithfully enough represented the originals they were copyed from.” So wrote the famed philosopher John Locke to his friend William Courten, aka William Charleton, from Amsterdam in August 1687…
Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez 50-2 Las conmemoraciones atraen la atención de la historia cultural de la política, sobre todo a la hora de estudiar los nacionalismos y las identidades nacionales. Fiestas anuales, centenarios...
In this interview the Lebanese filmmaker and artist Akram Zaatari discusses his practice based on collecting and studying photography. Over the past twenty-five years Zaatari has conducted research into private archives and family albums in the Middle East and North Africa, exploring how photography has shaped aesthetic and social codes in the region.
Journée d’étude « Arts contemporains et indigénéités », 26 mars 2020, École normale supérieure, Département ARTS Cette journée d’étude a pour objectif d’interroger la place des pratiques et des identités « indigènes » ou « …
Die Cambridge University Library hat ihre umfangreiche Sammlung an Karikaturen aus dem Deutsch-Französischen Krieg 1870/71 und aus der Pariser Kommune jetzt online gestellt. Die in der Bibliothek vorhandenen sechs Bände gehören zu einer ursprünglich…
Images depicting sorrow were rare, though not an uncommon genre, contained in illustrated manuscripts produced during the Mughal reign in India (1526 – 1857). The tradition of image-making during Mughal rule can be traced to earlier Timurid (15th century) and Ilkhanid periods (14th century), whose subject mainly consisted of histories of dynasties, Persian poetic and literary works and biographies of Turko-Mongol rulers. Images displaying tragedy …
This blog post follows on from the previous post Modi and Metamorphoses (I). Based on only this one particular work, it is almost impossible to speak about Sedlmayr´s manner as such, since we do…
Bilderfahrzeuge Research Associate Oliver O’Donnell is giving a talk as part of the Philosophy and Art History Research Seminar at the University of Essex. Locke’s Cannibal Thursday 5th November 2020, 3pm (ONLINE) This talk analyzes…
An aged man, wearing a hat and sporting an impressive moustache looks, somehow sceptical and at the same time absorbed, towards the beholder. The dark dominating tone of the painting is supported by the background and is challenged through the white-yellowish and in some cases green-redish flesh as well as the white thick brushstrokes in the area of the neck. These broad, parallel lines suggest the texture of a fabric and create a dazzling counterpoint to the dark coat.
A new series of online events at the Warburg Institute. Convened and organised by Eckart Marchand.
It is now both a convention and also a joke to make the title of pieces about animals “Consider the __” where the blank is the name of the animal. This is because of a now famous essay that David Foster Wallace wrote called “Consider the Lobster”. So now: Consider the Pigeon…
Aaron M. Hyman
(Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University)
Wednesday, 25 November 2020, 5:30 pm
Online Lecture, hosted by the Warburg Institute.
Free and open to all via Zoom; please book in advance via the Warburg Institute website.