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The term childbed presents is understood to mean gifts that were presented to the mothers of new-born babies in childbed. Presents for the new mother given for example during visits by relatives, friends and neighbours, initially consisted of food and drink. Later they could also include applied art objects. The custom of presenting childbed presents has a long tradition and still partially continues until today. In the present study, applied art objects which can be identified as childbed presents are analyzed and discussed in relation to their art historical development from the early modern period to the early 19th century. In regard to their cultural and historical context, questions about the form, content and function of these gifts will be investigated. In doing so a special field of early modern art and culture becomes accessible for the first time. Unter dem Begriff Kindbettgeschenke werden Gaben verstanden, die der Mutter nach der Geburt ihres Kindes im Wochenbett überreicht wurden. Im Rahmen von Besuchen brachten Verwandte, Freunde, Bekannte oder Nachbarn ein Geschenk für die frisch gewordene Mutter mit, das zunächst aus Speis und Trank bestand, mit der Zeit aber auch kunstgewerbliche Objekte umfassen konnte; auch verehrten Ehemänner ihren Gemahlinnen Kindbettgeschenke. Der Brauch, die Frau im Wochenbett zu beschenken, geht auf eine lange Tradition zurück, die zum Teil noch bis heute anhält. In der vorliegenden Untersuchung werden kunstgewerbliche Objekte als Kindbettgeschenke in ihrer kunstgeschichtlichen Entwicklung von der Frühen Neuzeit bis in das frühe 19. Jahrhundert ausführlich analysiert und kommentiert. Im Kontext ihrer kulturgeschichtlichen Voraussetzungen wird dabei vor allem der Frage nach Form, Inhalt und Funktion der Gaben nachgegangen, womit ein Sondergebiet der frühneuzeitlichen Kunst und Kultur erstmals umfassend erschlossen wird.

Art objects. --- Art objects --- Gifts --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Decorative arts --- Social aspects --- History. --- History

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For too long, the Earth has been used to ground thought instead of bending it; such grounding leaves the planet as nothing but a stage for phenomenology, deconstruction, or other forms of anthropocentric philosophy. In far too much continental philosophy, the Earth is a cold, dead place enlivened only by human thought—either as a thing to be exploited, or as an object of nostalgia. Geophilosophy seeks instead to question the ground of thinking itself, the relation of the inorganic to the capacities and limits of thought. This book constructs an eclectic variant of geophilosophy through engagements with digging machines, nuclear waste, cyclones and volcanoes, giant worms, secret vessels, decay, subterranean cities, hell, demon souls, black suns, and xenoarcheaology, via continental theory (Nietzsche, Schelling, Deleuze, et alia) and various cultural objects such as horror films, videogames, and weird Lovecraftian fictions, with special attention to Speculative Realism and the work of Reza Negarestani. In a time where the earth as a whole is threatened by ecological collapse, On an Ungrounded Earth generates a perversely realist account of the earth as a dynamic engine materially invading and upsetting our attempts to reduce it to merely the ground beneath our feet.

Art objects, Medieval. --- art history --- medieval architecture --- objects --- book history --- art theory

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Light allows us not only to see the works of art, but also to take care of them and preserve them for future generations, through diagnosis of the degradation and deterioration phenomena, conservation treatments, and monitoring based on light-material interaction processes. Recent progress on this subject was discussed during the 13th International Conference on Lasers in the Conservation of Artworks (LACONA XIII, Florence, Italy, 12-16 September 2022). This volume includes selected contributions presented at the conference on preservation topics, photonic techniques, and optimization methods. In particular, the papers focus on the development and use of innovative spectroscopic and imaging characterization techniques, the diagnostic knowledge of important artworks, and the optimization of the laser solution for preserving a growing variety of cultural assets, such as stone and metal artefacts, painted surfaces, textile, feather, and plastic artefacts. Lasers in the Conservation of Artworks XIII aims at scholars and operators of the community of preservation of cultural heritage, at teachers and students of training courses on diagnostic and conservation methods, applied physics, and chemistry, as well as archaeology and art history.

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Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Applied arts. Arts and crafts --- material culture [discipline] --- ritual objects --- Balinese --- Bali [island] --- Art objects --- Ceremonial objects --- Art, Balinese. --- Balinese art --- Ceremonial paraphernalia --- Objects, Ceremonial --- Rites and ceremonies --- Bric-a-brac --- Objects, Art --- Objets d'art --- Art --- Decoration and ornament --- Decorative arts --- Object (Aesthetics) --- Antiques --- Bali Island (Indonesia) --- Religious life and customs. --- Social life and customs. --- Lesser Sunda Islands