This companion examines the global Renaissance through object-based case studies of artistic production from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe in the early modern period. The international group ...of contributors take an art historical approach characterized by close analysis of form and meaning as well as function, and a focus on questions of crosscultural dialogue and adaptation. Seeking to de-emphasize the traditional focus on Europe, this book is a critical guide to the literature and the state of the field. Chapters outline new questions and agendas while pushing beyond familiar material. Main themes include workshops, the migrations of artists, objects, technologies, diplomatic gifts, imperial ideologies, ethnicity and indigeneity, sacred spaces and image cults, as well as engaging with the open questions of "the Renaissance" and "the global." This will be a useful and important resource for researchers and students alike and will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, material culture, and Renaissance studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license
Worin liegen die ästhetischen Eigenlogiken der Gattung des Genrebildes, also Darstellungen von Alltagsszenen mit anonymen und meist typisierten Figuren? Seit dem 16. Jahrhundert wurde diese Gattung ...in der Malerei populär. Sie erlangte ihr künstlerisches Profil in einem Prozess des Dialogs mit und der Abgrenzung von der Reproduktionsgraphik, der Historienmalerei sowie den anderen im Entstehen begriffenen Bildgattungen. Die Beiträger*innen bereichern die kunsthistorische Forschung zum europäischen Genrebild von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur Moderne um ikonographische, rezeptionsästhetische und bildwissenschaftliche Aspekte. Dabei stellen sie insbesondere Bildphänomene und künstlerische Strategien der Temporalität, der Ambiguität und der Latenz als spezifische Dimensionen dieser Gattung ins Zentrum ihrer Analysen und liefern so eine Neuperspektivierung der Genremalerei.
Prairie Interlace Hardy, Michele; Long, Timothy; Krueger, Julia
2023
eBook
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Innovative textile-based artwork exploded across the Canadian Prairies in the second half of the twentieth century. Melding craft traditions with modern and modernist movements in art and theory, a ...diverse body of creators opened a beautiful new chapter in textile art. Prairie Interlace brings together some of the most important scholars of art and craft in Canada to examine the work of forty-eight artists working with textiles from the 1960s to 2000. Recapturing and recording lost histories, this book explores both artists working with textiles and centres of textile study and production, paying special attention to the contexts in which artworks were produced. Indigenous scholars, experts in textile techniques, and experts in Prairie textile history provide fascinating insight into an artistic movement which, until now, has been largely overlooked. Featuring over one hundred and fifty beautiful full-colour images of textile works, many of which have never before been photographed for print, Prairie Interlace provides an opportunity to discover a fascinating movement which has not received the attention it deserves and invites further investigation of this rich period in Canadian art history. Developed from the travelling exhibition of the same name, Prairie Interlace is a collaboration between Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary in Calgary, AB and the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK.
In his best-selling travel memoir, The Innocents Abroad , Mark Twain punningly refers to the black man who introduces him to Venetian Renaissance painting as a “contraband guide,” a term ...coined to describe fugitive slaves who assisted Union armies during the Civil War. By means of this and similar case studies, Paul H. D. Kaplan documents the ways in which American cultural encounters with Europe and its venerable artistic traditions influenced nineteenth-century concepts of race in the United States.
Americans of the Civil War era were struck by the presence of people of color in European art and society, and American artists and authors, both black and white, adapted and transformed European visual material to respond to the particular struggles over the identity of African Americans. Taking up the work of both well- and lesser-known artists and writers—such as the travel writings of Mark Twain and William Dean Howells, the paintings of German American Emanuel Leutze, the epistolary exchange between John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton, newspaper essays written by Frederick Douglass and William J. Wilson, and the sculpture of freed slave Eugène Warburg—Kaplan lays bare how racial attitudes expressed in mid-nineteenth-century American art were deeply inflected by European traditions.
By highlighting the contributions people of black African descent made to the fine arts in the United States during this period, along with the ways in which they were represented, Contraband Guides provides a fresh perspective on the theme of race in Civil War–era American art. It will appeal to art historians, to specialists in African American studies and American studies, and to general readers interested in American art and African American history.
The Royal Chicano Air Force produced major works of visual art, poetry, prose, music, and performance during the second half of the twentieth century and first decades of the twenty-first. ...Materializing in Sacramento, California, in 1969 and established between 1970 and 1972, the RCAF helped redefine the meaning of artistic production and artwork to include community engagement projects such as breakfast programs, community art classes, and political and labor activism. The collective’s work has contributed significantly both to Chicano/a civil rights activism and to Chicano/a art history, literature, and culture. Blending RCAF members’ biographies and accounts of their artistic production with art historical, cultural, and literary scholarship, Flying under the Radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force is the first in-depth study of this vanguard Chicano/a arts collective and activist group. Ella Maria Diaz investigates how the RCAF questioned and countered conventions of Western art, from the canon taught in US institutions to Mexican national art history, while advancing a Chicano/a historical consciousness in the cultural borderlands. In particular, she demonstrates how women significantly contributed to the collective’s output, navigating and challenging the overarching patriarchal cultural norms of the Chicano Movement and their manifestations in the RCAF. Diaz also shows how the RCAF’s verbal and visual architecture—a literal and figurative construction of Chicano/a signs, symbols, and texts—established the groundwork for numerous theoretical interventions made by key scholars in the 1990s and the twenty-first century.
Louis Réau et Versailles Leroux, Flavie
Bulletin du Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles,
02/2024
Journal Article
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L’historien de l’art Louis Réau (1881-1961) constitue une référence incontournable pour qui s’intéresse à la mobilité des artistes et à l’influence exercée par la France en Europe. Dans ses travaux, ...il relève de nombreux « satellites » qui s’inspireraient des palais et places françaises ; parmi ceux qu’il érige en modèles, Versailles, son château et ses jardins, occupe une place de premier choix, devenant sous sa plume le « type accompli de la résidence royale » au point d’exercer, au xviiie siècle, « une irrésistible attraction sur tous les “despotes éclairés” ». Cette vision, développée à compter des années 1920, n’est pas neuve et s’inscrit dans la continuité d’une perspective à la fois patriotique et nationaliste déjà ancienne. Elle n’en fait pas moins date et infuse, parfois jusqu’à nos jours, de nombreuses études comparatives. Le but de cet article est d’en comprendre les tenants et aboutissants, et de mieux cerner l’édification d’un mythe – celui de Versailles – que Réau entretient tout en s’en inspirant.
Art historian Louis Réau (1881-1961) is essential reading for anyone interested in the mobility of artists and the French influence in Europe. In his work, Réau identifies numerous ‘satellites’ inspired by French palaces and squares. Principal among those he sets up as models is Versailles, its château and gardens, which becomes, in his words, the ‘consummate royal residence’ to the point of exerting, by the eighteenth century, ‘an irresistible attraction on all “enlightened despots”’. Réau’s vision, developed from the 1920s onwards, was not new, being part of a long-standing patriotic and nationalist perspective. Nonetheless, it represents a landmark and infuses many comparative studies, sometimes right up to the present day. The aim of this article is to examine the workings of Réau’s thinking, to better understand the construction of a myth – the myth of Versailles – that he both maintains and draws inspiration from.
Early modern views of nature and the earth upended the depiction of land. Landscape emerged as a site of artistic exploration at a time when environments and ecologies were reshaped and transformed. ...This volume historicizes the contingency of an ever-changing elemental world, reframing and reimagining landscape as a mediating space in the interplay between the natural and the artificial, the real and the imaginary, the internal and the external. The lens of the “unruly” reveals the latent landscapes that undergirded their conception, the elemental resources that resurfaced from the bowels of the earth, the staged topographies that unsettled the boundaries between nature and technology, and the fragile ecologies that undermined the status quo of human environs. Landscape and Earth in Early Modernity: Picturing Unruly Nature argues for an art history attentive to the vicissitudes of circumstance and attributes the regrounding of representation during a transitional age to the unquiet landscape.
This article presents the results of an empirical study of Swedish artistic mobility during the first decades of the twentieth century, a period associated with the emergence of modernismin Swedish ...art and with Paris as an unquestionable point of reference. Without questioning Paris as an artistic node, it highlights the discrepancy between art history’s narrativisation of transnational mobility and the diverse artistic itineraries that empirical material evidences. Focusing on Swedish artists’ travels in France, Germany, Denmark, and Italy, it offers a geohistorical trajectory that differentiates established narratives.
Cet article présente les résultats d’une étude empirique portant sur la mobilité artistique suédoise au début du XXe siècle, période marquée par l’émergence du modernisme dans l’art suédois et la domination parisienne. Sans remettre en cause l’importance de Paris, il confronte le récit officiel de la mobilité artistique transnationale aux différents itinéraires artistiques mis en lumière par les données empiriques. Centré sur les voyages des artistes suédois en France, en Allemagne, au Danemark et en Italie, il propose une trajectoire géohistorique qui questionne les récits établis.
This lavishly illustrated volume features 19 articles by Bernard O'Kane on a wealth of topics in medieval Islamic art, from the Siyah Qalam album paintings and Arab and Persian illustrated ...manuscripts, to Egyptian and Iranian decorative arts, and to epigraphic developments in Persian and Arabic.
