Art : History

This book looks at the transformation that Art and Art history is undergoing through engagement with the digital revolution. Since its initiation in 1985, CHArt (Computers and the History of Art) has set out to promote interaction between the rapidly developing new Information Technology and the study and practice of Art. It has become increasingly clear in recent years that this interaction has led, not just to the provision of new tools for the carrying out of existing practices, but to the evolution of unprecedented activities and modes of thought. This collection of papers represents the variety, innovation and richness of significant presentations made at the CHArt Conferences of 2001 and 2002. Some show new methods of teaching being employed, making clear in particular the huge advantages that IT can provide for engaging students in learning and interactive discussion. It also shows how much is to be gained from the flexibility of the digital image – or could be gained if the road block of copyright is finally overcome. Others look at the impact on collections and archives, showing exciting ways of using computers to make available information about collections and archives and to provide new accessibility to archives. The way such material can now be accessed via the internet has revolutionized the search methods of scholars, but it has also made information available to all. However the internet is not only about access. Some papers here show how it also offers the opportunity of exploring the structure of images and dealing with the fascinating possibilities offered by digitisation for visual analysis, searching and reconstruction. Another challenging aspect covered here are the possibilities offered by digital media for new art forms. One point that emerges is that digital art is not some discreet practice, separated from other art forms. It is rather an approach that can involve all manner of association with both other art practices and with other form more...

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Focuses on the intersection between modernization, modernism, and Orientalism. This book, an assessment of the history and legacy of Orientalist art and visual culture, will be useful to scholars and students of art history, architecture, museum studies, and cultural and postcolonial studies. more...

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Emergency Design ist eine Methode der situativen Raum- und Kulturproduktion, die auf dem Modell der Krise basiert und von Yana Milev Anfang 2006 als interdisziplin??rer Theoriediskurs vorgestellt wurde. Krise als Ph??nomen setzt sich aus den Phasen der Erscheinung und ihrem Verschwinden zusammen. In der etymologischen Bestimmung ist Krise aus krisis (gr.) herzuleiten, was "entscheidende Wendung" bedeutet. Damit steht Krise nicht am Beginn eines Prozesses, sondern bildet den zu erreichenden Endpunkt in machtdominierten Gesellschaftssystemen. Die Gestaltungsbereiche Design, Architektur und Kunst haben nicht mit Objektentw??rfen und ??sthetisierung zu tun, sondern mit tempor??ren Situationen. Die Formgebung erw??chst aus den Inhalten und nicht aus der Reproduktion von formalen Funktionsweisen. Die Autoren betrachten den Krisenraum als Matrix kultureller Erneuerung in Design, Identit??ten und Architektur. Ruedi Baur besch??ftigt sich u.a. mit Design als Mittel zur Repr??sentation der Krise oder Paul Virilio mit dem Thema mobile Architektur und neue urbane Kulturen. Peter Sloterdijk stellt Emergency Design anhand ausgesuchter Beispiele als Projekt der Selbstaufr??umung im Weltverletzungsraum vor. Joachim Kreysler spricht aus epidemologischer Sicht ??ber die Ursachen medizinischer Emergencies. Weitere Beitr??ge stammen u.a. von Heiner M??hlmann, Gerd de Bruyn, Kari Jormakka, Michael Zinganel, Martina L??w, Stephan Tr??by, Jaqueline Otten. more...

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Envisioning the Past brings together archaeologists, art historians, and anthropologists to offer new perspectives on the construction of knowledge concerning the antiquity of man. The volume demonstrates the extent to which the visual presentation of archaeological research creates a particular discourse, powerful enough to shape our understanding of archaeological knowledge. No category of images is immune from this process, from site drawings to museum displays and from manuscript illustrations to digital media. more...

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A lively and intriguing tale of the competition between two artists, culminating in the construction of the Duomo in Florence, this is also the story of a city on the verge of greatness, and the dawn of the Renaissance, when everything artistic would change. Florence's Duomo – the dome of the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral – is one of the most enduring symbols of the Italian Renaissance, an equal in influence and fame to Leonardo and Michaelangelo's works. It was designed by Filippo Brunelleschi, the temperamental architect who rediscovered the techniques of mathematical perspective. He was the dome's 'inventor', whose secret methods for building remain a mystery as compelling to architects as Fermat's Last Theorem once was to mathematicians. Yet Brunelleschi didn't direct the construction of the dome alone. He was forced to share the commission with his arch–rival, the sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti, whose 'Paradise Doors' are also masterworks. This is the story of these two men – a tale of artistic genius and individual triumph. more...

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