Art, Agency and Living Presence

Art, Agency and Living Presence
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 9783110345568
ISBN-13 : 3110345560
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Art, Agency and Living Presence by : Caroline van Eck

Throughout history, and all over the world, viewers have treated works of art as if they are living beings: speaking to them, falling in love with them, kissing or beating them. Although over the past 20 years the catalogue of individual cases of such behavior towards art has increased immensely, there are few attempts at formulating a theoretical account of them, or writing the history of how such responses were considered, defined or understood. That is what this book sets out to do: to reconstruct some crucial chapters in the history of thought about such reflections in Western Europe, and to offer some building blocks towards a theoretical account of such responses, drawing on the work of Aby Warburg and Alfred Gell.

Summerson and Hitchcock

Summerson and Hitchcock
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 406
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015063179421
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Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Summerson and Hitchcock by : Frank E. Salmon

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Art, Agency and Living Presence

Art, Agency and Living Presence
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 9400602219
ISBN-13 : 9789400602212
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis Art, Agency and Living Presence by : Caroline Alexandra Eck

Image and Imagination of the Religious Self in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Image and Imagination of the Religious Self in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
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Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Total Pages : 528
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ISBN-10 : UCSD:31822037134699
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Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis Image and Imagination of the Religious Self in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe by : Reindert Leonard Falkenburg

One of the central and defining beliefs in late-medieval and early-modern spirituality was the notion of the formability of the religious self. Identified with the soul, the self was conceived, indeed experienced, not as an abstraction, but rather as an essential spiritual persona, as well as the intellectual and sensory center of a human being. This volume investigates the role played by images construed as formal and semantic variables - mental images, visual tropes and figures, pictorial and textual representations - in generating and sustaining processes of meditation that led the viewer or reader from outward perception to various forms of inward perception and spiritual discernment. The fifteen articles address the history of the soul as a cultural construct, an internal locus of self-formation where the divine is seen to dwell and the person may experience her/himself as a place inhabited by the spirit of God. Three central questions are approached from various disciplines: first, how was the self-contained soul created in God's likeness, yet stained by sin and as such susceptible both to destructive and redemptive forces, refashioned as a porous and malleable entity susceptible to metaphysical effects and human practices, such as self-investigation, meditative prayer, and other techniques of inwardness? Second, how did such practices constitutive of an inner liturgy prepare the soul - the anima, bride - for an encounter with God that trains, purifies, moulds, shapes, and transforms the religious self? Finally, in this process of self-reformation, how were images of place and space mobilized, how were loci found, and how did the soul come to see itself situated within these places mapped upon itself?

Take Place

Take Place
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Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : PSU:000064212081
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Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Take Place by : Thomas E. Crow

For a medium so potentially "disembodied" and transparent, photography can offer a unique capacity to concretize place, especially when used in art installations in which photographs may be assembled from numerous sources and locations. Take Place investigates this particular implementation of photography through various scholarly disciplines--art history, photography theory, the history of architecture and social geography--and through creative disciplines such as installation art, performance, architecture and especially multimedia projects. Take Place offers points of departure for the study of photography as it is deployed within other media.

Archaeology International

Archaeology International
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 68
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015081574454
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Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

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Biblical Apocalyptics

Biblical Apocalyptics
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 524
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:AH6464
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Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Biblical Apocalyptics by : Milton Spenser Terry

The Month

The Month
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 692
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ISBN-10 : BML:37001200161268
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Art's Agency and Art History

Art's Agency and Art History
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Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages : 248
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015064957890
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Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Art's Agency and Art History by : Robin Osborne

Text looks at questions raised by Alfred Gell's "Art and agency: an anthropological theory."