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The ArtsNovember 2018Art as worldmaking
Critical essays on realism and naturalism
by Malcolm Baker, Andrew Hemingway, Andrew Hemingway, Briony Fer, Joshua Shannon, Adrian Rifkin, Malcolm Baker, Martina Droth, Caroline Arscott, Anne Wagner, Martin Powers, Neil McWilliam, Celeste Brusati, T.J. Clark, Rebecca Zurier, Steve Edwards, Tamar Garb, Lisa Tickner, Alistair Rider, Thomas Crow, Gail Day
Art as worldmaking is a response to Alex Potts's provocative 2013 book Experiments in modern realism. Twenty essays by leading scholars test Potts's recasting of realism through examinations of art produced in different media and periods, ranging from eighth-century Chinese garden aesthetics to video work by the contemporary Russian collective Radek Community. While the book does not neglect avatars of pictorial realism such as Menzel and Eakins, or the question of nineteenth-century realism's historical antecedents, it is contemporary in orientation in that many contributors are particularly concerned with the questions that sculpture, photography and non-traditional media pose for realism as an aesthetic norm. It will be essential reading for students of art history concerned with art's truth value or more broadly with conceptual problems of representation and the intersections of art and politics.
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The ArtsSeptember 2025Art as worldmaking
Critical essays on realism and naturalism
by Malcolm Baker, Andrew Hemingway
Introduction : Realism and its others in the 21st century: Why Realism won't go away - Andrew Hemingway Part I: Theory 1. The figure as double agent: realism and abstraction in European post-war art - Briony Fer 2. Realism's Credibility Problem - Joshua Shannon 3. If only; only if ... - Adrian Rifkin Part II: Sculpture 4. Confronting the Veristic Sculptural Portrait - Malcolm Baker 5. Sculpture, Realism and the Neo-classical Ideal - Martina Droth 6. Elasticity and Victorian Sculptural Form - Caroline Arscott 7. Image of the People: Charles Ray's Recent Work - Anne M. Wagner Part III: Garden Design 8. Of Gardens and Persons: the English Engagement with China's Garden Design - Martin Powers 9. Traditional Views. Conservative Anti-Naturalism and Landscape Aesthetics in France around 1900 - Neil McWilliam Part IV: Painting and Photography 10. Willem Kalf on Reflexykonst and the Aesthetics of Transformation in Still Life - Celeste Brusati 11. Democratic light: phenomenology and the worldliness of painting - Brendan Prendeville 12. The Visibility of Labor - T.J. Clark 13. Body and Soul in the work of Thomas Eakins and F. Holland Day - Rebecca Zurier Part V: Photography and Conema 14. Photography as counter forensics - Steve Edwards 15. Woman, War and Social Documentary Photography in South Africa - Tamar Garb 16. Antonioni's Blow-Up (1966): photography and film - Lisa Tickner Part VI: Post-Media / Contemporary Practice 17. Peter Dreher's Everyday Realism - Alistair Rider 18. From grey and rainy Vermont - Thomas Crow 19. 'Every day, something happens to us': Realism at the crossroads - Gail Day Index
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July 1998Der Schrei
Erzählung
by Robert Graves, Wolfgang Held
Der Schriftsteller, Übersetzer und Pianist Wolfgang Held wurde am 15. August 1933 in Freiburg im Breisgau geboren. Er promovierte 1961 mit einer Arbeit über Georg Trakl. Von 1961-73 arbeitete er als Lektor für den Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienst (DAAD) an den Universitäten Madras (Chennai), Ljubljana und Edinburgh. Danach wurde er Senior Lecturer an der Greenwich University (früher Thames Polytechnic) in London, wo er ab 1973 lebte. Sein literarisches Werk besteht aus Romanen, Essays sowie Prosa- und Gedichtübersetzungen. Seine Romane umspannen die Karriere als Schriftsteller von 1965 (Die im Glashaus) bis 2014 (Schattenfabel). Es erschienen außerdem Die schöne Gärtnerin (1979), Ein Brief des jüngeren Plinius, Rabenkind (1985), Geschichte der abgeschnittenen Hand (1994) und Traum vom Hungerturm (2007). Helds Werk erfuhr Anerkennung unter anderem durch Einladungen zu literarischen Veranstaltungen (Treffen der Gruppe 47 1965, Wettbewerb zum Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis 1983) und die Verleihung des Literaturpreises des Kulturkreises im Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie (1983). Durch seine Übersetzungen für Suhrkamp brachte Held Schlüsselfiguren der englischen und irischen Literatur einer breiteren deutschen Öffentlichkeit näher. Zu den übersetzten Werken gehören eine Biographie zu und Schriften von Samuel Beckett, eine Biographie zu Bernard Shaw, eine Biographie und Briefe von T.S. Eliot und Gedichte von Emily Bronte, John Donne, John Keats, Robert Graves, Edgar Allan Poe. Seine Bewunderung für E. T. A. Hoffmann inspirierte sein einziges Theaterstück Hoffmanns Verbrennung, für das er 1994 den Berganzapreis erhielt. Das Stück wurde 2015 mit Bühnenbildern aus seinem auf Hoffmanns Werk basierenden Collagenzyklus in Bamberg uraufgeführt. Text und Collagen wurden 2015 bzw. 2013 veröffentlicht. Helds Liebe zur Musik und Kunst war für seine Arbeit von zentraler Bedeutung. Als Pianist gab er Konzerte in Madras (Chennai), Bamberg und privat in London. Er schrieb eine Reihe von Sendungen für SWF und NDR, die er mit eigenen Einspielungen von Lieblingskomponisten wie Bach, Schubert und Schumann illustrierte. Held verstarb am 11. Dezember 2016 in London.
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August 1974Leichenreden und Leichenpredigten Tübinger Professoren (1550-1750)
Untersuchungen zur biographischen Geschichtsschreibung in der frühen Neuzeit
by Schmidt-Grave, Horst
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August 2022Otis und Otilie. Ein Pony zum Frühstück
Bunt illustriertes Abenteuer für Kinder ab dem Vorschulalter zum Vorlesen und Selberlesen
by Nina Dulleck, Nina Dulleck
Ein Mini-Pony setzt sich in den Kopf, bei einer grummeligen Oma einzuziehen - Bühne frei für dieses turbulente Abenteuer für Jungs und Mädchen ab 5 Jahren zum Vorlesen und Selberlesen. Voller bunter Illustrationen und mit unvergleichlichem Sprachwitz erzählt von Nina Dulleck! Ein Rosinenbrötchen für Otilie, ein Haferbrötchen für Herrn Schatzi - so war es jeden Samstag. Aber seit geraumer Zeit muss Otilie allein frühstücken. Bis zu jenem Samstagmorgen, als das komische, kleine, karamellfarbene Pony Otis vor ihrer Tür steht. Nach seiner Flucht aus dem Zirkus sucht Otis dringend eine neue Bleibe, denn der Zirkusdirektor, die Seiltänzerin Pillepalle, Gunter der Vogelstrauß und drei Zwergpudel sind ihm dicht auf den Fersen. Sie wollen ihre Hauptattraktion schnellstens zurückholen! Doch Otilie mag Tiere, wenn überhaupt, nur in der Pfanne. So setzt sie alles daran, Otis noch vor dem Frühstück wieder loszuwerden. Ob das Pony die alte Dame überzeugen kann, dass jeder einen Freund braucht ... und es sich zu zweit besser frühstückt als allein? Ein Buch für die ganze Familie: Ältere Kinder lesen selbst, die jüngeren lassen sich vorlesen und entdecken dabei die detailverliebten Bilder. Im Großen, vorlesefreundlichen Format, das die ganzseitigen, farbigen Illustrationen perfekt zur Geltung bringt. Inklusive Nina Dullecks Geheimrezept für die weltbesten Apfelpfannkuchen - für das Samstagsfrühstück zu Hause! Entdecke auch Nina Dullecks erste kunterbunte Geschichte aus der Welt von „Otis und Otilie“: Rosalie. Ein Abenteuer zum Frühstück
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2013The transatlantic divide
Foreign and security policies in the Atlantic Alliance from Kosovo to Iraq
by Osvaldo Croci, Emil Kirchner, Amy Verdun, Thomas Christiansen
This books, available in paperback for the first time, examines the period between the military intervention against Serbia by NATO and the one in Iraq by the US. It has been a particularly turbulent one for transatlantic security relations. Is the malaise currently affecting the Transatlantic Alliance more serious than ever before and if so why? Will differences in the assessment of how to provide order and stability in the international system as well as in the evaluation of threats and how to respond to them mark the end of the Transatlantic Alliance? Or will the US, NATO, the EU, and EU member states work together, using different instruments and accepting a degree of division of labour, to pacify, stabilise and rebuild troublesome areas as they have done in South-Eastern Europe? This book, with contributions from leading American, Canadian and European scholars, analyses the reasons behind the latest crisis of the Transatlantic Alliance and dissects its manifestations. ;
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The ArtsMay 2026Feminist substances
Plastics in art of the 1960s and 1970s
by Charlotte Matter
Numerous women artists engaged with industrial materials such as plastics in the 1960s and 1970s, contrary to what the discourse of the time would have us believe. As Feminist substances shows, their works offered unique approaches to plastics in art, introducing new material meanings through a feminist lens. With a focus on Europe and Latin America, the book discusses the practices of Carla Accardi, Lea Lublin and Alina Szapocznikow, combining close readings of selected artworks with broader considerations of their social contexts. It explores their use of Sicofoil, plexiglass, plastic inflatables, polyester resin and polyurethane foam to address key concerns of feminist thought in relation to social reproduction, motherhood, memory, desire and illness. Beyond commonplaces of plastics as generic bad materials, Feminist substances considers more complex ways of engaging with synthetic matter, taking into account our messy relationships with these controversial materials.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2016Doubtful and dangerous
The question of succession in late Elizabethan England
by Susan Doran, Peter Lake, Paulina Kewes, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda
Doubtful and dangerous examines the pivotal influence of the succession question on the politics, religion and culture of the post-Armada years of Queen Elizabeth's reign. Although the earlier Elizabethan succession controversy has long commanded scholarly attention, the later period has suffered from relative obscurity. This book remedies the situation. Taking a thematic and interdisciplinary approach, individual essays demonstrate that key late Elizabethan texts - literary, political and polemical - cannot be understood without reference to the succession. The essays also reveal how the issue affected court politics, lay at the heart of religious disputes, stimulated constitutional innovation, and shaped foreign relations. By situating the topic within its historiographical and chronological contexts, the editors offer a novel account of the whole reign. Interdisciplinary in scope and spanning the crucial transition from the Tudors to the Stuarts, the book will be indispensable to scholars and students of early modern British and Irish history, literature and religion. ;
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The ArtsSeptember 2025Picturing the Romantic
New perspectives on European Romanticism(s) in the visual arts
by Elisabeth Ansel, Johannes Grave, Christin Neubauer, Mira Claire Zadrozny
European Romanticism in the visual arts has always been defined by transnational transfer processes. It is surprising that international aspects of Romantic movements have been, in contrast to literary studies, a gap in art historical research. Picturing the Romantic addresses this issue and reveals new perspectives on European Romanticism(s) in the visual arts by reconsidering the phenomenon's traditional canon, geographical dimensions and terminology and analysing various examples of the complex and heterogeneous works of Romantic painting. In sixteen original essays, renowned and early career researchers examine the question of whether to speak of several independently considered Romanticisms or one European Romanticism. They adopt a transnational perspective on Romantic art in and beyond Europe, focusing on the interconnections between the countries.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2004Cultural identities and the aesthetics of Britishness
by Andrew Thompson, Dana Arnold, John Mackenzie
Considers how notions of Britishness were constructed and promoted through architecture, landscape, painting, sculpture and literature. Maps important moments in the self-conscious evolution of the idea of 'nation' against a broad cultural historical framework. An important addition to the field of postcolonial studies as it looks at how British identity creation affected those living in England - most study in this area has thus far focused on the effect of such identity creation upon the colonial subject. Broad appeal due to wide subject matter covered. Examines just how 'constructed' a national identity is - past and present. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017Cultural identities and the aesthetics of Britishness
by Dana Arnold
Considers how notions of Britishness were constructed and promoted through architecture, landscape, painting, sculpture and literature. Maps important moments in the self-conscious evolution of the idea of 'nation' against a broad cultural historical framework. An important addition to the field of postcolonial studies as it looks at how British identity creation affected those living in England - most study in this area has thus far focused on the effect of such identity creation upon the colonial subject. Broad appeal due to wide subject matter covered. Examines just how 'constructed' a national identity is - past and present.
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October 1998Rock-Lexikon 2
Madness - ZZ Top
by Graves, Barry; Schmidt-Joos, Siegfried; Halbscheffel, Bernward
