Three German Women
Personal Histories from the Twentieth Century
This book presents the life stories of three women of the German-speaking realm whose lives inspired the author directly: mathematician Maria Weber Steinberg (1919-2013); journalist Irmgard Rexroth-Kern (1907-1983); and Viennese art historian Fr. Dr. Anna von Spitzmüller (1903-2001). The lives of these three women serve as emotional mirrors to the cultural transformations and tumultuous history of the 20th century. Their stories tell of the hardships, struggles, and victories of intellectual European women in this era. Each woman was related to men who played a prominent role in European cultural life,…
The lives of three intellectual women—a mathematician, a journalist, and an art historian—serve as mirrors to the tumultuous 20th century. Their stories tell of the hardships, struggles, and victories of women whose achievements were overlooked amid the trauma of Nazism.
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This book situates the reader between an original, passionate retelling of the Cole’s life from new sources and a deep investigation into the true meanings of his work. Delving beyond the superficial to discuss the relationship between the artist and his subjects, Thomas Cole’s Americas recounts the interconnected story of art and life as told by Cole through his paintings. With 44 colour plates and 63 black-white figures, it is an original cultural history that describes the life of the creative mind that engendered Cole’s art and details how his…
This book situates the reader between a passionate retelling of Cole’s life and a deep investigation into his work. It recounts the interconnected story of art and life, detailing how his paintings incorporate prophetic stories of human history witnessed by pristine landscapes.
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Imagining Spaces and Places seeks to produce an interdisciplinary dialogue between art history and literature studies and other fields of cultural analysis that work with the concepts of space, place and various “scapes”, such as cityscapes, bodyscapes, mindscapes and memoryscapes, as well as the more familiar landscapes. The volume was inspired by new lines of study that underline the experiential and multidimensional aspects of spaces. We explore how art, literature or urban spaces forge “scapes” by imposing or suggesting aesthetic, evaluative or ideological orderings and perceptual as well as emotive…
This interdisciplinary volume explores how art, literature, and culture forge “scapes”—from landscapes to mindscapes. It examines how cultural works shape our perception and experience of place, contributing to a deeper understanding of space itself.
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Monuments and Site-Specific Sculpture in Urban and Rural Space presents a collection of essays discussing works of art whose formal qualities, content and spatial interactions expand our idea of creation and commemoration. By addressing projects that range from war memorials to commemorations of individuals, as well as works that engage real and virtual environments, this book brings to light new aspects concerning twentieth and twenty-first century monuments and site-specific sculpture. The book addresses the work of, among others, Günter Demnig, Michael Heizer, Thomas Hirschhorn, Dani Karavan, Costantino Nivola, Melissa Shiff…
This collection of essays discusses works of art whose formal qualities, content and spatial interactions expand our idea of creation and commemoration, and brings to light new aspects concerning twentieth and twenty-first century monuments and site-specific sculpture.
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Are images and spectacles fundamental mediators of power relationships in the West? This book draws upon the language of cultural studies to investigate a contemporary hypothesis in the shifting ideological landscape of early modern Europe. Apparently aesthetic choices by artists may also have been the means to consolidate and subvert institutionalized or non-institutionalized bodies of power. Meanwhile, communities in Europe reacted to the intrinsic power of the image in literature and letters, commenting upon both its use and abuse. Both diachronic and geographic connections are made among disparate but important…
How did images and spectacles shape power in early modern Europe? This collection of interdisciplinary essays reveals how aesthetic choices in art, theatre, and literature were used to consolidate and subvert institutional power from the 12th to 17th centuries.
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