How Painting Happens (and why it matters)

Painting is an almost inconceivably ancient activity that remains vigorously alive in the twenty-first century. Every successful painting creates a new world, which we inhabit for as long as we care to look at it. Paintings can incorporate profound ideas and paradoxes that can be grasped without words. For those who dedicate themselves to it, the art of painting can become an all-consuming, lif…

FacsimileMaking, Likeness, and Medieval Manuscripts

An unprecedented cultural history of reproductions of medieval manuscripts Facsimiles are, or claim to be, exact copies of objects, and medieval manuscripts have long been a focus for this kind of reproduction. Today, digitization delivers complete, high-resolution, full-color digital copies of thousands of medieval manuscripts to anyone with an internet connection. But for centuries, scholars…

The Heart of DrawingStories and Images from Around the World

In this unique new book, The Heart of Drawing, 59 artists from 22 countries exhibit their art and talk about their process of creation to inspire readers and help them find inspiration for their own creative efforts. The book is about what happens

More Joy of ArtKeys to Appreciating Art

Included are over 700 color photographs, depicting the different species of mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and fish, while offering over 600 range maps to show their territory, along with basic information for the biology of each animal, Texas's wildlife has always played an important role in the history of human beings inhabiting the state.Although the state's wildlife is still an impor…

Bilder der Alterität – Alterität der BilderZum transkulturellen Potenzial…

This study focuses on mural paintings, sculptures, picture writings and body images from 16th-century Mexico. Julia Kloss-Weber analyses the extent to which many of the images produced during the New Spain mission address alterity, i.e. identity-creating otherness. At the same time, she investigates the form of alterity assigned to images as fields of tension within an "iconic difference" (Gott…

Concrete and Waterdocumenta fifteen as an Atmospheric Phenomenon

Organizations are not only functional structures but equally defined through their humans, objects, spaces and practices in relation with each other. From this perspective, Jana Faßbender and Luca Marie Tüshaus engage ethnographically and conceptually with the contemporary art exhibition documenta fifteen. Offering a deep dive into its preparation, execution, and impact through immersive fiel…

El retorno del patrimonio cultural a América LatinaNacionalismo, normas y po…

En el debate actual sobre las reclamaciones de bienes del patrimonio cultural sustraídos de sus países de origen es importante preguntarse: ¿deberían regresar esos objetos al lugar donde se produjeron o permanecer en las colecciones de las instituciones que actualmente los preservan? El retorno del patrimonio cultural a América Latina presenta un análisis de los diferentes factores histó…

Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte Heft XVIII/1 Frühjahr 2024Hunger

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Culinary PalettesThe Visuality of Food in Postrevolutionary Mexican Art

How the visual culture of food, cookery, and consumption played a central role in the making of postrevolutionary Mexico. Postrevolutionary Mexico City was a site of anxious nation-building, as rampant modernization converged and clashed with the nation's growing nostalgia for its pre-Columbian heritage. During this volatile period, food became a meaningful symbol for a Mexican citizenry seeki…

Sobre el pedestalLa construcción de la memoria y sus monumentos

Los monumentos son reflejo del pasado, de los valores de la sociedad que encargó y sufragó la obra, y retratan el imaginario de la memoria colectiva. Por lo general, no constituyen sino un elemento más del paisaje por el que paseamos o un atractivo turístico que visitar y ante el que fotografiarse. Pero, en ocasiones, cuando se produce un profundo giro de mentalidad o una aguda agitación p…