Imagine studying a building not by walking its hallways or perusing its blueprints, but by examining each of its bricks: the pockmarks produced by air bubbles in the clay, the whorls of reds and browns, the trowel’s impressions in the mortar. Imagine evaluating a mosaic not for the bigger picture but for the glint of indi-vidual tesserae. Or imagine not watching a film but looki…
Questions of time and concepts of temporality have increasingly been moving into the focus of current research. A broad timeframe is covered in the publication Temporalität in Kunst und Kunsttheorie seit 1800 [Temporality in Art and Art Theory since 1800], ed-ited by Thomas Kisser in 2011. It reflects and discusses the problem of time in images across epochs – by analysing the role of time i…
Even today the academic world often rejects the different manifestations of contemporary popular culture as a source of study in many subjects of the humanities. In the fields of history and archaeology its role is, however, fundamental to the framework of research into cultural reception. In this respect, as defined by Sonna and Illarraga (2016: 9-10):Cines, series, películas, …
Philosophy tends to relegate senses to the realm of phe-nomenology and experience. By contrast, critical the-ory has gradually eroded the holy opposition between knowing and sensing to the extent that new speculative trends are now seeking to rebuild it. While the social sciences endeavour to frame sensing within socio- historical geneal ogies, …
The importance of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair cannot be overstated. Three days of music on a New York farm in August 1969 generated an ethos and a mythology (Denisoff, 1986); but was it merely a media contrivance? Depends upon who is asked. The importance is self-evident; the reason is elusive.Throughout the 1960s, popular music became increasingly reflec…
Within Western institutional thinking, the human is constituted through an abil-ity to speak, defined as the sole creature who holds language and consequently is capable of articulating, representing, and reflecting upon the world. Along with language comes the power of naming, of choreographing the semantic categories put in place, continually reproduced and negotiated to make sense…
At the turn of the 2020s, identity seems to remain an omnipresent and somewhatunseizable term, serving different views in and outside academia, in politics,in everyday talk, in intellectual and popular jargon, as well as in the arts. While,currently, identitarian ideologies and essentialist notions of identity that tend tosimplify and reduce life experience to simple factors globally …
Nahtlosigkeit ist in Mode, und das nicht nur bezogen auf Kleidung und Textil. Das Adjektiv nahtlos definiert die unterschiedlichsten Dinge, Sachlagen und Ideale; es wird in verschiedenen Kontexten in seiner metaphorischen wie konkreten Bedeutung herangezogen. Nahtlosigkeit verspricht Kompatibilität und problem-losen Datenaustausch zwischen Geräten. Arbeiten mit Interfaces, Schnistellen, Bedi…
Realize your psychic potential with the Tarot! Everyone is psychic to one degree or another. And with The Everything Tarot Book, 2nd Edition, you’ll unlock the mysteries of the cards and thus boost your innate psychic abilities. Completely revised, this easy-to-use guide has everything you need to conduct complete Tarot readings for yourself and others. The Tarot deck has been used for …
Articulating the shifting interests in Korean art and offering new ways of conceiving the biases that initiated and impacted its collecting, this book traces the rise of the modern Korean art market from its formative period in the 1870s through to its peak and subsequent decline in the 1930s. The discussion centres on the collecting of Kory? celadon ceramics as they formed the focal point of c…
More&More is an art and research project that explores the language and mechanics of global trade, container shipping, and the exchange of goods. It questions a mercantile structure that by necessity disallows the presence of ocean as a real space in order to flatten the world into a Pangaea of capital. The project is presented in two volumes, released in conjunction with an exhibition of Marin…
With this programme, the Another Roadmap Africa Cluster aims to make a lasting impact on Arts Education in Africa by creating a vibrant forum for exchange between Africa’s cultural scholars and practitioners and by producing research that is specifically targeted at Africa- based practitioners and policy makers.D. M.:The idea to decolonize art education seems to…
Saburo Hasegawa’s suddenly high-profile work and ideas resonated in a mid-twen-tieth-century American art world that had been largely leveled and restructured by the turmoil of World War II and its geopolitical aftermath. Modernist players and an existential ethos from Europe as well as philosophies from Asia eventually supplanted American scene regionalist artists and figurative and …
William Moorcroft (1872-1945) was one of the most celebrated potters of the early twentieth century. His career extended from the Arts and Crafts movement of the late Victorian age to the Austerity aesthetics of the Second World War. Rejecting mass production and patronised by Royalty, Moorcroft’s work was a synthesis of studio and factory, art and industry. He considered it his vocation to c…
William Rimmer (1816–1879) was a major and highly influential American artist, who, fairly consistently, managed to be misunderstood. Since his death, assessments of him have varied widely. He has been labeled both a neoclassicist and a precursor of the rebellious French sculptor, Auguste Rodin.1 Yet the content of Rimmer’s sculpture is ver…
Over the next two centuries, the Company grew rapidly, often exploiting tensions between competing powers—the Mughals, the Marathas, the naw-abs of Awadh and Bengal, and the French in India. The year 1764 was espe-cially pivotal. In the battle of Buxar, Company officer Robert Clive defeated the combined forces of the weakened Mughals, and the Mughal emperor was forced to gran…
Most of the following contributions are based on a two-day workshop held in February 2020 at the Vitromusée Romont, the Swiss Museum of Stained Glass and Glass Art, to commemorate the exhibition Reflets de Chine: Trois siècles de peinture sous verre chinoise, one of the first exhibitions in the West that presented a major survey dedicat-ed to Chinese reverse glass painting, tracing its long h…
Now that we are on the threshold of the Anthropocene epoch, how should humans envision and understand their place in the world? Do humans possess the necessary cultural tools to imagine new possibilities and relationships with the natural environment at a time when our material surroundings (the very system that supports us physically and spiritually) is under siege? To answer questions like th…
What is‘artistic research’? I say‘artistic research’. I could have used a number ofalternative names:‘art as research’,‘arts-based research’,‘creative research’,‘fine artresearch’,‘practice-based research’,‘practice-led research’and‘visual arts research’.It is by no means clear whether they all refer to exactly the same thing. I don’tpropose to identify how…
A monument stands in front of the United Center, home of the Chicago Bulls National Basketball Association team. A 2,000-pound bronze statue features Michael Jordan in full flight, ready to slam dunk the ball, to the chagrin of cowering defenders. The front panel capsulizes the phenomenal athlete: “The best there ever was. The best there ever will be.” Jordan needs no introduction. He is am…
With the end of the Second World War the contours and the weighting of the continents and regions of the world map of art shifted massively. The division of Europe, the rise of the USA as a super power, the beginning of the Cold War and the world-wide triumph of Western capitalism did not fail to have an effect on the sphere of art. The rapid and lasting erosion of French hegemony in the a…
We want to use this document to share our way of thinking and doing things. We want to present our way of working, our way of understanding the factual universe that goes into thinking up and producing exhibitions on science and technology through this lexicon. We want to contribute towards raising awareness about a way of operating and understanding the world of exhibitions. We are making an e…
There are as many ways of looking at art as there are viewers of art. That huge diversity is one indication that we humans are highly distinctive lot of creative people. It does not mean, however that there are no universal principles of perception and cognition that apply to all of us as we view and appreciate art. This tutorial on art is presented in the spirit of trying to find general princ…
The majority of authors of Tarot books are content to describe and analyze the cards one by one without imagining the entire deck as a whole. However, the true study of each Arcanum begins with the consistent order of the entire Tarot; every detail, tiny as it may be, begins from the links that connect all seventy-eight cards. To understand these myriad symbols, one needs to have seen the final…
The study of signs, portents observed in the physical and social worlds indicating the will of supernatural agents and the course of future events, was undoubtedly important in all ancient cultures. The first written evidence for a concept of sign, however, comes from cuneiform texts of ancient Mesopotamia.
The ancient and mystic pack of cards called the Tarot never fails to evoke the curiosity of the uninitiated. “What are the Tarot cards?” “What makes them so different from our own playing cards?” “Can they really foretell the future?” “Can anyone learn how to read them?” This book is devoted to answering these and many other questions and to give the reader a knowledge of the Ta…
As the dominant narrative forms in the age of media convergence, films and games call for a transmedial perspective in narratology. Games allow a participatory reception of the story, bringing the transgression of the ontological boundary between the narrated world and the world of the recipient into focus. These diverse transgressions - medial and ontological - are the subject of this transdis…
The capacity for sound to be powerfully evocative is unquestionable. An old photograph, or even a silent cine film from one’s childhood, brings back memories and can have strong emotional resonances. Listening to the ‘unseen sound’ of an old audio recording however, can almost without warning, engulf us in the feelings it triggers. The sound of a distant night-time …
This perceived hybrid nature of astrology often offends contemporarysensi-bilities, although, from ahistorical perspective,iti is the anachronistic projection of a modern divideon to anancient knowledge system that is to blame. Astrology, classified as a 'pseudoscience' has long been regarded as a liability by orthodox scholars of both science and religion and as a result, academics of either …
A multi-perspective and knowledge-oriented examination of such influ-encing variables and parameters as globalization and migration; digitization and inclusion; phenomena of media democracy; increasingly non-national citizens or those with multiple identities; the changed, mediatized social-ization of children and young people; unequal distribution of power and re-sources betwe…
First things first. What are martial arts? What do we mean when we say ‘martial arts’? These two questions can be regarded as either very similar to each other or very different. Simplifying in the extreme, we might propose that, although there is a spectrum of possible answers, there are two main positions on these matters. On the one hand, there is a kind of strict or rigorou…
Reading your Art in Focus textbook will take you on a reading journey through art history. You will find a great amount of information in it. It is an example of nonfiction writing—it describes artworks, art styles, and artists from the real world, and introduces you to people, images, and ideas. Here are some reading strategies that will help you become an active textbook reader. Choose the …
While cleaning up – wanna-be Spring Clean, I found this book (at that stage half done) which I organized as a collaboration on IUOMA in December 2010. Final participants were Lauriana Glenny (South Africa), Jen Staggs (USA), Frank Oddette (Australia), Francoise Cheyne (South Africa), Katerina Nikoltsou(Greece), Test Tower(USA), Valentine Mark Herman (France), Angie Cope(USA) and myself . This…
Following its biggest recession for 10 years in 2020, the global art market recovered strongly in 2021, with aggregate sales of art and antiques by dealers and auction houses reaching an estimated $65.1 billion. This represented an increase in sales of 29% from 2020, with values also surpassing pre-pandemic levels of 2019.1 The COVID-19 pandemic created challenges and uncertainties for art mark…
The chronological and geographical limitations of this explorationof the terms and notions were justified by the growing importance,in both number and diversity, of the publications on art in NorthernEurope from 1600 onwards, and more particularly from 1604, the yearof publication of Karel Van Mander’sHet Schilder-Boeckuntil 1750,a moreflexible date depending on the countries studied. This da…
The academic landscape is broad and fickle; academic fields, disciplines, and teach-ing perspectives always shift and change. In these academic places, identities, and communities overlap and work together. This book holds space for identities that are often undervoiced in academia. The perspectives of the contributors serve as models for how artists work within communit…
This book intends to generate curiosity, stimulate debate, and pro-vide a starting point or valuable progress for the studies around artifi-cial intelligenceconcerning design. It is based on the degree thesis of Fabio Figoli, discussed inDecember 2021 at Politecnico di Milano, Master of Sciencein Design &Engineering. Lucia Rampino was the thesis supervisor, and Francesca Mattioli was the…
It is a truism that in a democracy, every citizen should have the oppor-tunity to take part in decision making about what we do, how we oper-ate, how we structure the world in which we live. As theories, practices, and the organizational forms and processes of democracy developed over the past several hundred years, that was how we structured the social world within which w…
In 2018 the J. Paul Getty Museum presented the exhibition Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World, curated by Jeffrey Spier, Timothy Potts, and Sara E. Cole. This was the first in a series of exhibitions and publications seeking to explore how Greece and Rome influenced and were influenced by neighboring cultures and civilizations in the Mediterranean and Near East over a period spanning…
‘How big is the internet?’ asks an anonymous user in Jodel.1Reading thequestion on the display of a smartphone, amused by the presumed un-answerability of the question, one scrolls through the answers of otherusers: ‘Without the porn pages, it would fit on a CD’ or ‘324 bathtubs.’Since the app does not show this dialogue for longer than 24 hours,one takes a screenshot with a swift, …
he field of ‘Craft Sciences’ refers to research con-ducted across and within different craft subjects and academic contexts. This book aims to build on the breadth of topics, source material, methods, perspectives, and results that reside in this field, and to explore what unites the research in such di-verse contexts as, for example, the arts, conserva-tion, …
This volume of preprints, prepared for an international symposium on Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands, 26-29 June 1995, contains the results of work on historical painting techniques from all parts of the world. The suggestion to organize such a meeting was raised during the symposium on the Technology of Art Works from …
It could be argued that the new millennium is one of global crises in terms of health and well-being. How and in what way can notions of lifelong learning, in this case that of martial arts, contribute to health and well-being and how do they impact, if at all, on everyday lifestyle and practice from the perspective of those who practice them? These are important questions, given the concerns o…
The Chinese have been using martial arts for thousands of years, both among themselves and against others, but organized Kung Fu needed a parent system from which to evolve. Recorded history is sparse on the subject. However, there are many indications that Kung Fu originated from the Long Fist system. It is reported to have been created during the reign of Tai Tzu, the first emperor of the Su…
Peterson’s College Guide for Performing Arts Majorshelps students find the perfect college program for studying dance, music, or theater. The comprehensive profiles detail hundreds of professional baccalaureate and graduate degree programs, with the most current information on costs, deadlines, enrollment, faculty, financial aid, and more. Added features include in-depth advice from a former …