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Dingkulturen
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ISBN: 3110449196 3110450976 3110448955 3110611767 9783110449198 9783110450972 9783110448955 9783110611762 Year: 2016 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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Dinge sind schon seit einiger Zeit zu einem der wichtigsten kulturwissenschaftlichen Forschungsfelder avanciert. Die zwanzig in diesem Band versammelten Aufsätze widmen sich vormodernen Dingkulturen aus archäologischer, ethnologischer, historischer, kunsthistorischer und literaturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf Erzähltexten, womit zugleich die Brücke zur historischen Narratologie geschlagen wird. Moderne dingtheoretische Ansätze, insbesondere das Konzept der agency und das der Mensch-Ding-Vernetzung sowie gabentheoretische Ansätze werden fruchtbar gemacht und reflektiert. Erstaunliche Dinge, signifikante Sachverhalte, dingtheoretisch aufschlussreiche Texte vom Waltharius bis zu Heinrich Wittenwilers Ring werden analysiert und interpretiert. Die untereinander vielfach vernetzten Beiträge widmen sich den folgenden Themen: 1. Objektbiographien, 2. Dinge als Gabe und weitere Formen von Zirkulation, 3. Funktionen und 4. Bedeutungen von Dingen in literarischen Texten, 5. Artifizialität und Ästhetik. So schlüsselt die Publikation Dimensionen des dingtheoretischen Zugangs auf und zeigt gleichzeitig, wie gewinnbringend die unterschiedlichen Fragerichtungen verknüpft werden können. 


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Transatlantic aliens
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ISBN: 1421420953 9781421420950 9781421420943 1421420945 Year: 2016 Publisher: Baltimore

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The intellectual migration to the United States of European writers, intellectuals, and artists in the 1930s and 1940s has often been narrowly seen as a clash between a rarefied European modernist sensibility and a debased American mass culture. In Transatlantic Aliens, Will Norman reorients our understanding of midcentury American culture by thinking dialectically about the interfusion of aesthetic and intellectual practices across both the cultural hierarchy and the Atlantic. The transatlantic exchanges of midcentury emerge in the book as a crisis point for modernism at which claims for the autonomy of high culture became increasingly untenable, the geographical center of cultural authority was displaced, and the governing principles of the American cultural field went through a phase of dramatic instability.Norman relays this critical narrative through a series of interlinked case studies of key figures, including C. L. R. James, Theodor Adorno, George Grosz, Raymond Chandler, Simone de Beauvoir, Vladimir Nabokov, and Saul Steinberg. He discovers the strange afterlives of European modernism in disorientating and uncanny juxtapositions: the aesthetics of French symbolism flicker among the neon signs of a small town in the dead of night, and echoes of Mondrian's grids are observed in the form of a boardroom sales chart. At the heart of Transatlantic Aliens is a conception of alienation that encompasses both its political and aesthetic valences. What unites the exilic figures it addresses is the desire to transform the practical experience of alienation into a positive resource for criticizing and coping with a reconfigured postwar landscape.Addressed to scholars and readers of American and comparative literatures as well as of cultural history and visual culture, the book combines assessments of individual artworks, novels, and other texts with more distant readings spanning time and space. A gallery of color plates beautifully illuminates the book's analysis. Examining hardboiled fiction through Flaubert, New Yorker cartoons through modernist painting, and Bette Davis through Hegel and Marx, Transatlantic Aliens challenges and changes the way we understand modernism's place in midcentury American culture.


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Modern art and the life of a culture
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ISBN: 0830899979 9780830899975 9780830851355 0830851356 Year: 2016 Publisher: Downers Grove, Ill.


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Art as organism : biology and the evolution of the digital image
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ISBN: 1350985414 0857728075 9780857728074 9780857728944 0857728946 9781784534301 1784534307 Year: 2016 Publisher: London, England : London, England : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, Bloomsbury Publishing,

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What if modernism had been characterised by evolving, interconnected and multi-sensory images rather than by the monolithic objects often described by its artists and theorists? In this groundbreaking book, Charissa Terranova unearths a forgotten narrative of modernism, which charts the influence that biology, General Systems Theory and cybernetics had on art in the twentieth century. From kinetic and interactive art to early computer art and installations spanning an entire city, she shows that the digital image was a rich and expansive artistic medium of modernism. This book links the emergence of the digital image to the dispersion of biocentric aesthetic philosophies developed by Bauhaus pedagogue Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, from 1920s Berlin to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1970s. It uncovers seminal but overlooked references to biology, the organism, feedback loops, emotions and the Gestalt, along with an intricate genealogy of related thinkers across disciplines. Terranova reinterprets major art movements such as the Bauhaus, Op Art and Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), by referencing contemporary insights from architects, embryologists, electrical engineers and computer scientists, among others. This book reveals the complex connections between visual culture, science and technology that comprise the deep history of twentieth-century art.


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Modernist afterlives in Irish literature and culture
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ISBN: 1783085738 9781783085736 9781783085743 1783085746 1783085754 Year: 2016 Publisher: London Anthem Press

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Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture℗ explores manifestations of the themes, forms and practices of high modernism in Irish literature and culture produced subsequent to this influential movement.[This book]℗ closely examines how Irish writers and artists from the mid-twentieth century onwards grapple with the legacies bequeathed by modernism and seek to forge new modes of expression for modern and contemporary culture.


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Historiografie der Moderne : Carl Einstein, Paul Klee, Robert Walser und die wechselseitige Erhellung der Künste
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ISBN: 9783770559220 3770559223 3846759228 9783846759226 Year: 2016 Publisher: Paderborn : Wilhelm Fink Verlag,

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Die Werke von Carl Einstein, Paul Klee und Robert Walser gelten in der Historiografie der Moderne als ›singulär‹ und repräsentativ für die ›wechselseitige Erhellung der Künste‹. Die Beiträge des Bandes untersuchen, wie sich in der historiografischen Behandlung der drei Zeitgenossen Beschreibungskategorien wie Intermedialität, Transnationalität und Pluridisziplinarität topisch verdichten. Die angewandte Kombination bildhistorischer und textwissenschaftlicher Perspektiven erweist in exemplarischer Weise, wie sich die modernen Künste nicht nur selbst reflektieren, sondern auch ausdifferenzieren und hybridisieren müssen, um der als immer bildmächtiger und dynamischer erlebten Wirklichkeit – dem überwältigenden ›Simultané‹ (Carl Einstein) – noch gewachsen zu sein. Der Band ist ein Gemeinschaftswerk der Carl-Einstein-Gesellschaft, des Zentrums Paul Klee und des Robert Walser-Zentrums.


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Art periodical culture in late imperial Russia (1898-1917) : print modernism in transition
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ISBN: 9789004269262 9789004301405 9004301402 9004269266 Year: 2016 Volume: 44 5 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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Art Periodical Culture in Late Imperial Russia (1898-1917). Print Modernism in Transition offers a detailed exploration of the major Modernist art periodicals in late imperial Russia, the World of Art ( Mir Iskusstva , 1899-1904), The Golden Fleece ( Zolotoe runo , 1906-1909) and Apollo ( Apollon , 1909-1917). By exploring the role of art reproduction in the nineteenth century and the emergence of these innovative art journals in the turn of the century, Hanna Chuchvaha proves that these Modernist periodicals advanced the Russian graphic arts and reinforced the development of reproduction technologies and the art of printing. Offering a detailed examination of the “inaugural” issues, which included editorial positions expressed in words and images, Hanna Chuchvaha analyses the periodicals’ ideologies and explores journals as art objects appearing in their unique socio-historical context in imperial Russia.


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The Cambridge history of modernism
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ISBN: 9781107034693 1107034698 9781139540902 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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This 'Cambridge History of Modernism' is the first comprehensive history of modernism in the distinguished Cambridge Histories series. It identifies a distinctive temperament of 'modernism' within the 'modern' period, establishing the circumstances of modernized life as the ground and warrant for an art that becomes 'modernist' by virtue of its demonstrably self-conscious involvement in this modern condition. Following this sensibility from the end of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, tracking its manifestations across pan-European and transatlantic locations, the forty-three chapters offer a remarkable combination of breadth and focus. Prominent scholars of modernism provide analytical narratives of its literature, music, visual arts, architecture, philosophy, and science, offering circumstantial accounts of its diverse personnel in their many settings. These historically informed readings offer definitive accounts of the major work of twentieth-century cultural history and provide a new cornerstone for the study of modernism in the current century.


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Art since 1900 : modernism, antimodernism, postmodernism
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ISBN: 9780500239537 0500239533 Year: 2016 Publisher: London Thames & Hudson

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Groundbreaking in both its content and its presentation, Art Since 1900 has been hailed as a landmark study in the history of art. Conceived by some of the most influential art historians of our time, this extraordinary book has now been revised, expanded and brought right up to date to include the latest developments in the study and practice of art. With a clear year-by-year structure, the authors present 130 articles, each focusing on a crucial event - such as the creation of a seminal work, the publication of an important text, or the opening of a major exhibition - to tell the myriad stories of art from 1900 to the present. All the key turning-points and breakthroughs of modernism and postmodernism are explored in depth, as are the frequent antimodernist reactions that proposed alternative visions. This expanded edition includes a new introduction on the impact of globalization, as well as essays on the development of Synthetic Cubism, early avant-garde film, Brazilian modernism, postmodern architecture, Moscow conceptualism, queer art, South African photography, and the rise of the new museum of art. Acclaimed as the definitive work on the subject, Art Since 1900 is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the complexities of art in the modern age.

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