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Decorative arts --- Art objects

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Die Aufarbeitung der eigenen (Restaurier- )geschichte ist für die junge Disziplin der Konservierungswissenschaft zur Notwendigkeit geworden. Denn die Evaluierung von früher angewandten Materialien und Methoden dient heute als Basis für die Entwicklung aktueller Erhaltungsstrategien in Museen und in der Denkmalpflege. Ausgehend vom 19. Jahrhundert, als bürgerliches Engagement und historisches Bewusstsein erstmals Grundlagen für die Kulturguterhaltung bildeten, spannt die Autorin am Fallbeispiel der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien einen breiten Bogen von den Anfängen der Restaurierungstätigkeiten an der damaligen Kunstgewerbeschule über die Gründung der ersten Meisterklasse für Metallrestaurierung im Jahr 1964 bis zum heutigen international verankerten Institut für Konservierung und Restaurierung.

Art --- Art objects --- Conservation and restoration.

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"This volume has much to recommend it-providing fascinating and stimulating insights into many arenas of material culture, many of which still remain only superficially explored in the archaeological literature." -Archaeological Review"... a vivid introduction to the topic.... A glimpse into the unique and changing identities in an ever-changing world." -Come-All-YeFourteen interdisciplinary essays open new perspectives for understanding African societies and cultures through the contextualized study of objects, treating everything from the production of material objects to the meaning of sticks, masquerades, household tools, clothing, and the television set in the contemporary repertoire of African material culture.

Material culture --- Art objects, African --- Philosophy, African --- Ethnic & Race Studies --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences --- African philosophy --- African art objects --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Art objects, African. --- Philosophy, African.

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This book examines how the Embassy members approached, selected, and represented information, and how, in doing so, they helped to shape European perceptions of China. The Macartney Embassy of 1793 was the first British diplomatic mission to China, seeking to open ties between the two empires. As part of the mission, the British government commissioned writers and artists to chronicle the geography and culture of a civilization that had, until then, been shrouded in mystery. A central focus of the book is the artwork itself, which provides a window into the diplomatic, artistic and scientific viewpoints underlying the mission. Drawing on archival research, the study recreates the processes through which the Embassy’s draughtsmen, scientists, and diplomats collaborated to represent the visual images, and how the materials were reworked for publication in London. The finished product demonstrates that the artists offered a distinct viewpoint in the representation of China, sometimes differing from the textual accounts, by blending scientific elements and artistic aesthetics in order to demystify China and make it more knowable to a British audience. It was in the interposition of text and image that the British public formulated an ambivalent perception of China that embraced both admiration and disdain. In addition to the scholars, the book targets general readers who are interested in global art and history, and East–West interactions. It contains important images with detailed visual and historical analysis that enable readers to acquire knowledge on how the British represented China and how that image helped to shape the European perception of China during the British global expansion in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and beyond.

World history --- History --- wereldgeschiedenis --- geschiedenis --- China --- Art objects. --- Staunton, George,

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How has reproduction transformed works of art and literature, their dissemination and their reception? And how does it continue to do so? In what ways have our definitions and practices of reproduction changed over the last centuries thanks to new printing, photographic and digital techniques? These questions are timely. From the medieval copy to contemporary digital culture, including the rise of the printing press and engraving techniques in the Renaissance and the Ancien Régime , myriad modes of reproduction informed both our access to texts and images and our ways of reading, seeing, understanding, discovering and questioning the world. Dans quelle mesure la reproduction transforme-t-elle les œuvres, leur diffusion et leur réception ? De quelles manières les conceptions et les usages de la reproduction ont-ils subi des transformations majeures au cours des derniers siècles avec la diffusion des pratiques d'impression, de la photographie et des techniques numériques ? Ces questions sont d'une actualité incontournable. De la copie médiévale à la culture numérique contemporaine, en passant par l'essor de l'imprimerie et les techniques de gravure à la Renaissance et sous l'Ancien Régime, les différents modes de reproduction informent non seulement nos accès aux textes et aux images, mais aussi nos manières de lire, de voir, de comprendre, découvrir et d'interroger le monde.

Art objects --- Visual communication --- Art and literature --- Reproduction