When it comes to looking at the meaning that Christian holiness has had for the believer is indispensable to ask for the underlying content of art which he has sought to represent it in painting and ...sculpture. Taking as a general base concerning essential esthetic of figurative art, the test takes some among the many saints of Roman Catholicism most popular in the Colombian ambit, looking at his remote origin and evolution that each one of them has recorded throughout history. That survey allows settle an “ideologization” of art to be put at the service of interests of institutional type and therefore the confession of faith that the art wanted to support. It concludes pointing to its possible renewal because since its birth in the Christian scope it did not pretend anything other than refers the believer beyond the obvious limitation of the figurative.
Special Issue of Arts: “Slavic and Eastern-European Visuality: Modernity and Tradition” is focused on researching interactions of art and literature, of philosophy and visual poetry, and generally on ...theoretical aspects of cultural analysis.
This book analyzes the genesis and evolution of the late Gothic painting in the Crown of Aragon and the Hispanic kingdoms, examining this phenomenon in relation to the whole context of Europe in the ...second half of the fifteenth century.
Painting has often been declared dead since the 1960s and yet it refuses to die. Even the status and continued legitimacy of the medium has been repeatedly placed in question. As such, painting has ...had to continually redefine its own parameters and re-negotiate for itself a critical position within a broader, more discursive set of discourses. Taking the American Clement Greenberg's 'Modernist Painting' as a point of departure, After Modernist Painting will be both a historical survey and a critical re-evaluation of the contested and contingent nature of the medium of painting over the last 50 years. Presenting the first critical account of painting, rather than art generally, this book provides a timely exploration of what has remained a persistent and protean medium. Craig Staff focuses on certain developments including the relationship of painting to Conceptual Art and Minimalism, the pronouncement of paintings alleged death, its response to Installation Art's foregrounding of site, how it was able to interpret ideas around appropriation, simulation and hybridity and how today painting can be understood as both imaging and imagining the digital. After Modernist Painting is an invaluable resource for those seeking to understand the themes and issues that have pertained to painting within the context of postmodernism and contemporary artistic practice.
Composta de tres retrats d'ambdós artistes victimitzats per les monarquies catòliques en el convulsionat segle XVI, la novel·la històrica Tríptico de la infamia (2015) de l'escriptor colombià Pablo ...Montoya pot llegir-se com una transposició ecfràstica de la iconografia entorn de la llegenda negra. El tríptic narratiu de Montoya no es limita a desplegar i descodificar un corpus visual centrat en les atrocitats que van tenir lloc en el context de les pugnes religioses en el Vell Món, sinó que reescriu la història a través d'un llenguatge visual. La recreació imaginativa de la vida dels artistes a partir de les seves cròniques pictòriques propulsa una escriptura del passat en què el diàleg entre literatura, pintura i imatges arxivades en la memòria col·lectiva porta a una interpretació més actual i revisionista del passat.
The scene, which belongs to the nilotic landscape genre, is carried out by pygmies that, among other occupations, participate in a scene of symplegma that emphasizes the comic and otherness character ...of the painting. Both, the impudent sexual attitude of deformed characters and the placement of pictorial vestiges -located in a domestic area dedicated to entertainment-, lead us to consider the piece as a caricature of the symposium, perhaps aimed at eliciting the spectators laughter with an apotropaic purpose. A pesar de que se han catalogado alrededor de 90 posturas sexuales para las pinturas de la Antigüedad, únicamente aparecen dos en las escenas nilóticas (Forberg 1969): a tergo (Figura 7) -exclusivamente expresada cuando la cópula sexual se lleva a cabo a bordo de un barco que surca el Nilo- y la venus pendula anversa (Figura 6)que se representa cuando el coito se produce en las riberas, normalmente en relación con un banquete- (Meyboom y Versluys 2007: 170-208) (Figs. 7 y 8, la primera conservada in situ y la segunda conservada en el Museo Arqueológico Nacional de Nápoles con inventario número 27.702). Clarke, J. R. 2007a: «A Compendium of Pygmy Imagery in the Casa del Medico at Pompeii: Content, Context, and Viewers», en: C. Guiral Pelegrin (ed.): Circulación de temas y sistemas decorativos en la pintura mural antigua.
This book focuses on the unique nature of early modern Bolognese painting that found its expression in stylistic diversity. The flourishing of different stylistic approaches in the Mannerist ...paintings of the previous generation evolved, at the turn the seventeenth century, in the work of the Bolognese painters into an approach best described as eclecticism, characterized by the combination of two or more styles in a single work of art. Eclectism was a major innovation and major contribution to the history of art. But it then also became a critical term that suffered much negative press. The book therefore also traces the role of ecclecticism as a concept in the evolution of criticism and scholarship about the Bolognese school of painting over 250 years, showing how the dramatically vascilatting attitudes towards this concept shaped the historical view of the Bolognese painters, ultimately having a tremendous dampening impact on our understanding of seventeenth-century art.
Connecting Art Markets proposes that vertically-integrated art dealers operating on a large scale acted as cultural mediators, and offers an aggregate view that connects artistic and market ...developments at both sides of the Atlantic.
Focusing on a turbulent time in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, The Power and the Glorification considers how, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the papacy employed the visual arts ...to help reinforce Catholic power structures. All means of propaganda were deployed to counter the papacy’s eroding authority in the wake of the Great Schism of 1378 and in response to the upheaval surrounding the Protestant Reformation a century later. In the Vatican and elsewhere in Rome, extensive decorative cycles were commissioned to represent the strength of the church and historical justifications for its supreme authority. Replicating the contemporary viewer’s experience is central to De Jong’s approach, and he encourages readers to consider the works through fifteenth- and sixteenth-century eyes. De Jong argues that most visitors would only have had a limited knowledge of the historical events represented in these works, and would likely have accepted (or been intended to accept) what they saw at face value. With that end in mind, the painters’ advisors did their best to “manipulate” the viewer accordingly, and De Jong discusses their strategies and methods.
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