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Caroline van Eck

    Idols and museum pieces
    Piranesi und sein Museum
    Art, Agency and Living Presence
    Classical Rhetoric and the Visual Arts in Early Modern Europe
    • Caroline van Eck explores the interplay between rhetoric and the arts during early modern Europe, highlighting how these two fields influenced one another. The book delves into the cultural and intellectual contexts that shaped artistic expression and persuasive communication, offering insights into the significance of this relationship in shaping the era's artistic landscape. Through detailed analysis, it reveals the ways in which rhetoric informed artistic practices and vice versa, enriching our understanding of early modern creativity.

      Classical Rhetoric and the Visual Arts in Early Modern Europe
    • Art, Agency and Living Presence

      From the Animated Image to the Excessive Object

      • 274 stránok
      • 10 hodin čítania

      The book explores the historical and theoretical understanding of how viewers have interacted with art as if it were alive, expressing emotions like love or aggression. It aims to reconstruct significant moments in Western European thought regarding these responses, highlighting the increase in documented cases over the past two decades. By drawing on the works of Aby Warburg and Alfred Gell, it seeks to provide foundational insights into the complex relationship between viewers and art, contributing to a broader theoretical framework.

      Art, Agency and Living Presence
    • Die Entwicklung und der Wandel von Stilen wird üblicherweise als Prozess verstanden, der von Menschen ausgeht: dem Künstler, dem Sammler und manchmal dem angesprochenen Publikum. Dieses Buch bietet eine andere Perspektive auf den Stilwandel, ausgehend vom Vorhandensein und der „Agency“ von Artefakten. Angeregt von neuen Konzepten in der Archäologie und Psychologie konzentriert sich die Studie auf die Jahrzehnte um 1800 und rekonstruiert die Entstehung des Klassizismus, der durch das Aufkommen neuer „object scapes“ in Rom und Paris geformt wurde, die wiederum Folge des massiven Austauschs von Objekten in einer Phase des politischen Umbruchs der Jahre 1789 bis 1815 waren. Die Verfasserin erklärt den Stilwandel, indem sie über künstlerische und ästhetische Kriterien hinausgeht. Im Zentrum dieser Untersuchung steht dabei Piranesis Museo mit seinen dort entstandenen Artefakten.

      Piranesi und sein Museum
    • Idols and museum pieces

      • 292 stránok
      • 11 hodin čítania

      The publication of Winckelmann’s Geschichte der Kunst des Altertums in 1764 is considered as the defining moment in the genesis of the modern, scientific study of sculpture. It was a formalist and secular history, concentrating on the statue as a work of art, and studying sculpture in a museum setting, abstracting from its original religious, social or political functions. Other 17th- and 18th-century authors tried to understand those functions and why statues so often excited violent reactions ranging from adoration to abuse. The collection of essays aims to be a first investigation of the questions that arise out of an awareness that the origins of the Western historiography are much more complex than may appear from the perspective of Winckelmann’s vision of the Graeco-Roman tradition.

      Idols and museum pieces