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An unusual collaboration among art historians and historians of science, this book demonstrates how printmakers of the Northern Renaissance, far from merely illustrating the ideas of others, contributed to scientific investigations of their time. Hans Holbein, for instance, worked with cosmographers and instrument makers on some of the earliest sundial manuals published;(...)
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An unusual collaboration among art historians and historians of science, this book demonstrates how printmakers of the Northern Renaissance, far from merely illustrating the ideas of others, contributed to scientific investigations of their time. Hans Holbein, for instance, worked with cosmographers and instrument makers on some of the earliest sundial manuals published;(...)
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Prints and the pursuit of knowledge in early modern Europe
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An unusual collaboration among art historians and historians of science, this book demonstrates how printmakers of the Northern Renaissance, far from merely illustrating the ideas of others, contributed to scientific investigations of their time. Hans Holbein, for instance, worked with cosmographers and instrument makers on some of the earliest sundial manuals published; Albrecht Dürer produced the first printed maps of the constellations, which astronomers copied for over a century; and Hendrick Goltzius's depiction of the muscle-bound Hercules served as a study aid for students of anatomy. This books features fascinating reproductions of woodcuts, engravings, and etchings; maps, globe gores, and globes; multilayered anatomical "flap" prints; and paper scientific instruments used for observation and measurement. Among the "do-it-yourself" paper instruments were sundials and astrolabes, and the book incorporates a facsimile of globe gores for the reader to cut out and assemble.
Prints and the pursuit of knowledge in early modern Europe
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An unusual collaboration among art historians and historians of science, this book demonstrates how printmakers of the Northern Renaissance, far from merely illustrating the ideas of others, contributed to scientific investigations of their time. Hans Holbein, for instance, worked with cosmographers and instrument makers on some of the earliest sundial manuals published; Albrecht Dürer produced the first printed maps of the constellations, which astronomers copied for over a century; and Hendrick Goltzius's depiction of the muscle-bound Hercules served as a study aid for students of anatomy. This books features fascinating reproductions of woodcuts, engravings, and etchings; maps, globe gores, and globes; multilayered anatomical "flap" prints; and paper scientific instruments used for observation and measurement. Among the "do-it-yourself" paper instruments were sundials and astrolabes, and the book incorporates a facsimile of globe gores for the reader to cut out and assemble.
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Art historian Hans Belting proposes a new anthropological theory for interpreting human picture making. Rather than focus exclusively on pictures as they are embodied in various media such as painting, sculpture, or photography, he links pictures to our mental images and therefore our bodies. The body is understood as a "living medium" that produces, perceives, or(...)
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Art historian Hans Belting proposes a new anthropological theory for interpreting human picture making. Rather than focus exclusively on pictures as they are embodied in various media such as painting, sculpture, or photography, he links pictures to our mental images and therefore our bodies. The body is understood as a "living medium" that produces, perceives, or(...)
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An anthropology of images: picture, medium, body
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Art historian Hans Belting proposes a new anthropological theory for interpreting human picture making. Rather than focus exclusively on pictures as they are embodied in various media such as painting, sculpture, or photography, he links pictures to our mental images and therefore our bodies. The body is understood as a "living medium" that produces, perceives, or remembers images that are different from the images we encounter through handmade or technical pictures. Refusing to reduce images to their material embodiment yet acknowledging the importance of the historical media in which images are manifested, this publication presents a challenging and provocative new account of what pictures are and how they function. The book demonstrates these ideas with a series of case studies, ranging from Dante's picture theory to post-photography. One chapter explores the tension between image and medium in two "media of the body," the coat of arms and the portrait painting. Another, central chapter looks at the relationship between image and death, tracing picture production, including the first use of the mask, to early funerary rituals in which pictures served to represent the missing bodies of the dead. Pictures were tools to re-embody the deceased, to make them present again, a fact that offers a surprising clue to the riddle of presence and absence in most pictures and that reveals a genealogy of pictures obscured by Platonic picture theory.
An anthropology of images: picture, medium, body
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Art historian Hans Belting proposes a new anthropological theory for interpreting human picture making. Rather than focus exclusively on pictures as they are embodied in various media such as painting, sculpture, or photography, he links pictures to our mental images and therefore our bodies. The body is understood as a "living medium" that produces, perceives, or remembers images that are different from the images we encounter through handmade or technical pictures. Refusing to reduce images to their material embodiment yet acknowledging the importance of the historical media in which images are manifested, this publication presents a challenging and provocative new account of what pictures are and how they function. The book demonstrates these ideas with a series of case studies, ranging from Dante's picture theory to post-photography. One chapter explores the tension between image and medium in two "media of the body," the coat of arms and the portrait painting. Another, central chapter looks at the relationship between image and death, tracing picture production, including the first use of the mask, to early funerary rituals in which pictures served to represent the missing bodies of the dead. Pictures were tools to re-embody the deceased, to make them present again, a fact that offers a surprising clue to the riddle of presence and absence in most pictures and that reveals a genealogy of pictures obscured by Platonic picture theory.
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This book is a collection of essays by Susan Sontag which was published in 1966. It includes some of Sontag's best-known works, including "On Style", "Notes on 'Camp'", and the titular essay "Against Interpretation". In the last, Sontag argued that in the new critical approach to aesthetics the spiritual importance of art is being replaced by the emphasis on the(...)
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This book is a collection of essays by Susan Sontag which was published in 1966. It includes some of Sontag's best-known works, including "On Style", "Notes on 'Camp'", and the titular essay "Against Interpretation". In the last, Sontag argued that in the new critical approach to aesthetics the spiritual importance of art is being replaced by the emphasis on the(...)
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Against interpretation and other essays
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This book is a collection of essays by Susan Sontag which was published in 1966. It includes some of Sontag's best-known works, including "On Style", "Notes on 'Camp'", and the titular essay "Against Interpretation". In the last, Sontag argued that in the new critical approach to aesthetics the spiritual importance of art is being replaced by the emphasis on the intellect. Rather than recognizing great creative works as possible sources of energy, she argued, contemporary critics were all too often taking art's transcendental power for granted, and focusing instead on their own intellectually constructed abstractions like "form" and "content. " In effect, she wrote, interpretation had become "the intellect's revenge upon art. " The essay famously finished with the words, "in place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art".
Against interpretation and other essays
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This book is a collection of essays by Susan Sontag which was published in 1966. It includes some of Sontag's best-known works, including "On Style", "Notes on 'Camp'", and the titular essay "Against Interpretation". In the last, Sontag argued that in the new critical approach to aesthetics the spiritual importance of art is being replaced by the emphasis on the intellect. Rather than recognizing great creative works as possible sources of energy, she argued, contemporary critics were all too often taking art's transcendental power for granted, and focusing instead on their own intellectually constructed abstractions like "form" and "content. " In effect, she wrote, interpretation had become "the intellect's revenge upon art. " The essay famously finished with the words, "in place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art".
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June 2011
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Cette première anthologie française de la revue allemande Texte zur Kunst confère une nouvelle valeur d'usage à une sélection d'écrits publiés entre 1990 et 1998. Elle doit permettre d'engager – ou de poursuivre – un dialogue incisif avec certaines approches théoriques américaines incontournables (October ou Artforum), comme avec les diverses réceptions de la French(...)
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Cette première anthologie française de la revue allemande Texte zur Kunst confère une nouvelle valeur d'usage à une sélection d'écrits publiés entre 1990 et 1998. Elle doit permettre d'engager – ou de poursuivre – un dialogue incisif avec certaines approches théoriques américaines incontournables (October ou Artforum), comme avec les diverses réceptions de la French(...)
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Une anthologie de la revue Texte zur Kunst de 1990 à 1998
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Cette première anthologie française de la revue allemande Texte zur Kunst confère une nouvelle valeur d'usage à une sélection d'écrits publiés entre 1990 et 1998. Elle doit permettre d'engager – ou de poursuivre – un dialogue incisif avec certaines approches théoriques américaines incontournables (October ou Artforum), comme avec les diverses réceptions de la French Theory ou celle des études culturelles, féministes et post-coloniales. Elle témoigne aussi d'une forme d'écriture de la critique expérimentée de manière orientée et méthodique. Enfin, elle restitue le contexte immédiat de son élaboration et – plus largement –l'environnement intellectuel et artistique de Cologne dans ces années, en évitant de céder au mythe d'une scène recentrée autour de quelques figures artistiques.
Une anthologie de la revue Texte zur Kunst de 1990 à 1998
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Cette première anthologie française de la revue allemande Texte zur Kunst confère une nouvelle valeur d'usage à une sélection d'écrits publiés entre 1990 et 1998. Elle doit permettre d'engager – ou de poursuivre – un dialogue incisif avec certaines approches théoriques américaines incontournables (October ou Artforum), comme avec les diverses réceptions de la French Theory ou celle des études culturelles, féministes et post-coloniales. Elle témoigne aussi d'une forme d'écriture de la critique expérimentée de manière orientée et méthodique. Enfin, elle restitue le contexte immédiat de son élaboration et – plus largement –l'environnement intellectuel et artistique de Cologne dans ces années, en évitant de céder au mythe d'une scène recentrée autour de quelques figures artistiques.
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Les dernières études du grand historien de l'art allemand, consacrées au nouvel « espace de pensée » de la modernité : un corpus soigneusement édité d'essais, de notes et de lettres en partie inédits qui apportent un éclairage nouveau sur tout un pan des recherches de Warburg et leur évolution dans le temps, en apparence fort éloigné du champ de la culture figurative de(...)
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Les dernières études du grand historien de l'art allemand, consacrées au nouvel « espace de pensée » de la modernité : un corpus soigneusement édité d'essais, de notes et de lettres en partie inédits qui apportent un éclairage nouveau sur tout un pan des recherches de Warburg et leur évolution dans le temps, en apparence fort éloigné du champ de la culture figurative de(...)
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Miroirs de faille: à Rome avec Giordano Bruno et Édouard Manet, 1928-29
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Les dernières études du grand historien de l'art allemand, consacrées au nouvel « espace de pensée » de la modernité : un corpus soigneusement édité d'essais, de notes et de lettres en partie inédits qui apportent un éclairage nouveau sur tout un pan des recherches de Warburg et leur évolution dans le temps, en apparence fort éloigné du champ de la culture figurative de la Renaissance.
Miroirs de faille: à Rome avec Giordano Bruno et Édouard Manet, 1928-29
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Les dernières études du grand historien de l'art allemand, consacrées au nouvel « espace de pensée » de la modernité : un corpus soigneusement édité d'essais, de notes et de lettres en partie inédits qui apportent un éclairage nouveau sur tout un pan des recherches de Warburg et leur évolution dans le temps, en apparence fort éloigné du champ de la culture figurative de la Renaissance.
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Penser l'image
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Qu´est-ce qu´une image? La multiplication proliférante des images semble bien - et c´est là son paradoxe - inversment proportionelle à notre faculté de dire ce qu´est réellment une image. Ce livre est un receuil de témoignant de l'incidence de la question de l'image, de sa logique spécifique et de la transformation du champ visuel dans les savoirs contemporains ainsi(...)
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Qu´est-ce qu´une image? La multiplication proliférante des images semble bien - et c´est là son paradoxe - inversment proportionelle à notre faculté de dire ce qu´est réellment une image. Ce livre est un receuil de témoignant de l'incidence de la question de l'image, de sa logique spécifique et de la transformation du champ visuel dans les savoirs contemporains ainsi(...)
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Qu´est-ce qu´une image? La multiplication proliférante des images semble bien - et c´est là son paradoxe - inversment proportionelle à notre faculté de dire ce qu´est réellment une image. Ce livre est un receuil de témoignant de l'incidence de la question de l'image, de sa logique spécifique et de la transformation du champ visuel dans les savoirs contemporains ainsi que de la variété de ses approches conceptuelles, de la préhistoire à nos jours, et dans différentes traditions de pensée.
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Qu´est-ce qu´une image? La multiplication proliférante des images semble bien - et c´est là son paradoxe - inversment proportionelle à notre faculté de dire ce qu´est réellment une image. Ce livre est un receuil de témoignant de l'incidence de la question de l'image, de sa logique spécifique et de la transformation du champ visuel dans les savoirs contemporains ainsi que de la variété de ses approches conceptuelles, de la préhistoire à nos jours, et dans différentes traditions de pensée.
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July 2010
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What is it that makes notebooks so fascinating? Anthropologist Michael Taussig, for whom fieldwork notebooks are indispensable, discusses notorious notetakers Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Le Corbusier and Joan Didion among others.
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What is it that makes notebooks so fascinating? Anthropologist Michael Taussig, for whom fieldwork notebooks are indispensable, discusses notorious notetakers Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Le Corbusier and Joan Didion among others.
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Documenta series 01: Michael Taussig, fieldwork notebooks
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What is it that makes notebooks so fascinating? Anthropologist Michael Taussig, for whom fieldwork notebooks are indispensable, discusses notorious notetakers Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Le Corbusier and Joan Didion among others.
Documenta series 01: Michael Taussig, fieldwork notebooks
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What is it that makes notebooks so fascinating? Anthropologist Michael Taussig, for whom fieldwork notebooks are indispensable, discusses notorious notetakers Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Le Corbusier and Joan Didion among others.
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The first Documenta took place in Kassel in 1955. In this lecture from 1987, Vancouver artist Ian Wallace discusses the occasion as an expression of the postwar cultural and political climate.
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The first Documenta took place in Kassel in 1955. In this lecture from 1987, Vancouver artist Ian Wallace discusses the occasion as an expression of the postwar cultural and political climate.
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Documenta series 02: Ian Wallace, the first documenta 1955
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The first Documenta took place in Kassel in 1955. In this lecture from 1987, Vancouver artist Ian Wallace discusses the occasion as an expression of the postwar cultural and political climate.
Documenta series 02: Ian Wallace, the first documenta 1955
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The first Documenta took place in Kassel in 1955. In this lecture from 1987, Vancouver artist Ian Wallace discusses the occasion as an expression of the postwar cultural and political climate.
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Through stories, diaries, critical reflection and letters, Documenta 13's artistic director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev describes some of the key issues around the 2012 exhibition.
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Through stories, diaries, critical reflection and letters, Documenta 13's artistic director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev describes some of the key issues around the 2012 exhibition.
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Documenta series 03: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, letter to a friend
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Through stories, diaries, critical reflection and letters, Documenta 13's artistic director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev describes some of the key issues around the 2012 exhibition.
Documenta series 03: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, letter to a friend
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Through stories, diaries, critical reflection and letters, Documenta 13's artistic director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev describes some of the key issues around the 2012 exhibition.
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For this series, artist Lawrence Weiner has made an artist's book of new statements and instructions, in exactly the same format (A6) and with the same number of pages (24) as his first contribution to Documenta, in 1972.
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For this series, artist Lawrence Weiner has made an artist's book of new statements and instructions, in exactly the same format (A6) and with the same number of pages (24) as his first contribution to Documenta, in 1972.
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Documenta series 08: Lawrence Weiner, if in fact there is a context
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For this series, artist Lawrence Weiner has made an artist's book of new statements and instructions, in exactly the same format (A6) and with the same number of pages (24) as his first contribution to Documenta, in 1972.
Documenta series 08: Lawrence Weiner, if in fact there is a context
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For this series, artist Lawrence Weiner has made an artist's book of new statements and instructions, in exactly the same format (A6) and with the same number of pages (24) as his first contribution to Documenta, in 1972.
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