History of Art - Science topic

Dear Colleagues, We are very glad to announce that the Eight Balkan Symposium on Archaeometry (BSA 8) will be held on the 3 rd-6 th October 2022 in Belgrade, Serbia. We are kindly inviting you to take part in the event. Balkans is a bridge, a crossroads whose significance cannot be overestimated. Paleolithic peoples and Neolithic farmers settled Eu...

Alejo Carpentier is a writer who handles a huge volume of intellectual and cultural nature, due to his exquisite competence in subjects as different as music, architecture, history, philosophy, anthropology, art and literature. Thanks to his polished education from childhood and the endless curiosity and capacity to wonder about the cultural phenom...

In this second article, I look at the history of the creation of the “Encyclopedia of Artistic Terminology” within the State Academy of the Artistic Sciences. I analyze various versions of the encyclopedia’s conception proposed by Wassily Kandinsky and Gustav Shpet and also at the theoretical bases for these conceptions. I then show how the work on...

In this first of two articles, I look at the project for the “Encyclopedia of Artistic Terminology” in connection with the idea of a synthesis of the “artistic sciences” as the principal task of the State Academy of Artistic Sciences (GAKhN, 1921–1930) in Moscow. The most important feature of the Academy was the unity of its epistemological concept...

UNMSM El libro, de Biagio D'angelo Las babas del sabio. Ensayos sobre la dislocación de la escritura (Lima, UCSS, 2008), como indica su autor, reúne ensayos referidos a la preocupación por el marco escritural y sus vinculaciones con diferentes géneros y otros lenguajes, especialmente con las formas mediáticas del mass-media, que se advierten como u...

Abstract - The discipline of art history rests on a visual-based knowledge that takes the visual as its object and method of inquiry. It investigates how art constitutes a transcendent and continuous expression of human content. Art history examines the history of the production, experience and consumption of visual arts. This research attempts to...

Contents of Proceedings of Indian Art History Congress XXVIII Session 2019 Patiala. The Proceedings is edited by Preeta Nayar

Kein anderer Bereich des menschlichen Körpers ist mit so vielen Assoziationen belegt wie die Mundhöhle. Deswegen lohnt ein Blick auf die Bedingtheiten und Veränderlichkeiten des Oralen in Kunst-und Kulturgeschichte-in der Gegenwart, aber auch in der Vergangenheit. Wie geht der Berufsstand mit seinem dental-historischen Erbe um? Was ist es ihm eigen...

Este artigo revisita a trajetória da artista Tarsila do Amaral, buscando analisar os meios e as operações de sua legitimação no sistema da arte, em suas dimensões artística e de mercado. Para tanto, a opção foi traçar uma certa biografia cultural das coisas, ou seja, percorrer a jornada de duas de suas emblemáticas obras, Abaporu e A Lua, desde as...

The lack of material monuments of Georgian clothing prior to the XVIII century poses a significant challenge to presenting a comprehensive picture of Georgian costume history and comprehending the process of its development. Foreign sources from various epochs contain useful information for resolving this issue. Among them are the works of Don Cris...

“Fatta di calcestruzzo e di metallo invece che di carne. Tuttavia miracolosamente donna”, Laura, un icona femminile, è stata ritratta da Dino Buzzati nel suo romanzo fantascientifico, pubblicato nel 1960 da Mondadori, come una figura ibrida trans-umana, una struttura spaziale senza corpo organico. Nel romanzo che, a differenza di molte altre sue op...

Although Herman Melville is typically considered one of America’s earliest cosmopolitan writers, scholarship has focused primarily on his involvement with the South Seas, England, and the Holy Land. In American Risorgimento: Herman Melville and the Cultural Politics of Italy, Dennis Berthold extends Melville’s transnational vision both geograp...

Library classifiers and the Scientific and Technical Information Rubricator (GRNTI) are considered in the work as the mirrors reflecting architectural knowledge. The paper examines which spheres of public practice architecture belongs to, what is the degree of development, differentiation of classifiers' positions, how architectural knowledge is pr...

This study examines the linear order of the narrative figures that appear in the frescoes of the Cycle of Saint Francis in the UpperChurch of the Basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi, Italy (1288–1297).This linguistic analysis of the visual-pictorial modality explores the distribution of thematic and discourse roles as an authorly tool to express me...

The paradigm of an academic career- doctoral study, then a well charted ascent through the ranks, culminating in 25 or 30 or so years as a full professor, and tapering off with many years on an ample pension-was never guaranteed or anything like universal, but was a reasonable aspiration for a college graduate who loved physics or sociology or art...

La representación visual del aborto ha sido escasa en la historia del arte a pesar de su atávica existencia. A partir de una imagen subrepresentada en el cine y la TV -el cuerpo femenino en posición ginecológica- se avala el estatus de auténtico motivo visual del cuerpo de la mujer abortando.

The study of premodern architecture and built environments, particularly those involving extensive designed landscapes, presents a variety of challenges for the architectural historian. The problems of fragmentary source pools and unconventional sources, incomplete architectural remains, and the reconstruction of historical stratigraphy take partic...

The exhibition Arte e sensualità nelle case di Pompei (21 April 2022-15 January 2023) has been curated by professor in art history and classical archaeology, Maria Luisa Catoni (IMT Lucca) and director of the Pompeii archaeological park, Gabriel Zuchtriegel. It offers a glimpse of the sensual, sexual and erotic aesthetics which decorated different...

La recensione propone una prospettiva critica della diciassettesima edizione delle Giornate Internazionali di Studio sul Paesaggio organizzata da Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche incentrata sul rapporto tra corpi e paesaggi. Come partecipa la nostra adesione corporea al paesaggio? Qual è la misura dell’interazione sensoriale con esso? Come si evo...

193 | luglio 2022 97888948401 warburg & mnemosyne temi di ricerca indici archivio libreria colophon "La Rivista di Engramma (open access)" ISSN 1826-901X Marina Apollonio. Fusione circolare/Endings Tra arte cinetica e testo musicale elettroacustico Guglielmo Bottin English abstract Marina Apollonio e l'arte cinetica Marina Apollonio nasce nel 1940...

The field that is commonly identified as ‘technical art history’ is situated at a multi-disciplinary cross-roads, which presents both rich possibilities and chal-lenging obstacles for conservators. Because technical studies often emerge from analytical investigations, and after problems within objects have been diag-nosed, it is important to recogn...

Die am Fach Kunstgeschichte angesiedelte interdisziplinäre Veranstaltung hat es zum Ziel, neuzeitliche Tierpräparate und frühe Präparationstechniken in den Blick zu nehmen. Im Zentrum der Diskussionen sollen Verfahrensweisen des Präparierens, die konservierten Tierkörper selbst, aber auch ihr Anteil an neuzeitlicher Wissensgenerierung stehen. Neben...

L’idea del volume nasce da un percorso di ricerca sull’immagine della città intrapresa qualche anno fa all’interno del progetto “BDA. Bari Disegno Architetture”. Le immagini prodotte non sono fotografie né vedute prospettiche, ma disegni criticamente elaborati per ampliare il sistema delle conoscenze relative allo spazio urbano; rappresentazioni la...

This study concerns a soap factory built in the early years of the twentieth century in Ayvalık Soap factories which are described within the scope of immovable industrial assets of the region, are substantial in terms of the commercial life of Ayvalık, just like the olive oil factories. Soap factories having a crucial role in the industry-based sp...

The role of 3D virtual reconstruction of lost heritage artefacts is acquiring ever-greater importance, as a support for archaeological research and art history studies, as well as a vehicle for the cultural and evocative involvement of the end-user. The main risk of virtual reconstruction is the lack of a faithful restitution but, conversely, very...

ABSTRACT This research proposes a new method to map and classify art clusters , combining multiple dimensions of spatial and social network analyses. This method innovatively blends a historic GIS approach, spatial statistics and qualitative data analysis, and experiments with the Republican-period of Shanghai art world, known as the golden age of...

It is possible to see the effects of the geography that it dominates in the music culture, as in all areas of the Byzantine empire, which hosted a synthesis culture between the east and the west. Few information and documents, mostly religious music, have reached the present day about Byzantine music, which can be divided into various groups as rel...

The article is devoted to the study of the application of calligraphy in enamel art. This publication is the first attempt in art history to analyze the use of inscriptions directly in enamel. The publication sheds light on the relations to the art of calligraphy in different countries. Samples from Ukrainian enamel art are analyzed on specific exa...

Geldscheine können als Ausgangspunkt für eine Auseinandersetzung mit Architektur und Kunstgeschichte dienen. Die Vorderseite der Geldscheine zeigt Portale der unterschiedlichen Epochen. Beginnend beim 5 Euro Schein (Antike) über die Romanik am 10 Euro Schein, die Gotik am 20er, die Renaissance am 50er und den Barock am 100 Euro Schein, gefolgt von...

The inspiration for the article was a Congress held at the Sapienza Università di Roma a decade ago (2O11), where Italian scholars spoke of the withering status of stucco images in the art of Gandhāra. The vanishing image must be recorded in archaeological registers, especially in certain countries where religious vestiges of ancient religions ar...

In the architecture of the Anatolian Seljuk period and its innovative successor, the Principalities, front facade establishments; It consists of elements such as crown doors, windows, niches, moldings, buttresses, corner towers, gargoyles and minarets. Crown doors, which are located on the front facades of the buildings, which are given more import...

This book reevaluates the art of Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) in relation to his efforts to achieve belonging in the face of West Germany’s increasing individualism between the 1960s and the 1990s. Richter fled East Germany in 1961 to escape the constraints of socialist collectivism. His varied and extensive output in the West attests to his greater...

This article aims at introducing the matrixial theory of Bracha L. Ettinger to the field of academic teaching. As it intends to prove, feminist pedagogy would benefit from a matrix-informed approach to teaching, especially in the times of social distancing imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Since of all student groups it is the university students w...

The study of architectural art history has greatly benefited from innovative, computer-aided approaches in recent years. From high resolution two-dimensional (2D) photos of building edifices, to three-dimensional (3D) models of entire structures, these emerging techniques are laying the foundation for new methodologies in researching architecture (...

Determination of price of an artwork is a fundamental problem in cultural economics. In this work we investigate what impact visual characteristics of a painting have on its price. We construct a number of visual features measuring complexity of the painting, its points of interest, segmentation-based features, local color features, and features ba...

Turkistan's ceramic style development occurred over several centuries and was formed by the Middle Ages. In Kazakh culture the ceramic art was raised up to an original artistic phenomenon. Studies of the production of South Kazakhstan pottery from the archeologic point of view has involved many Kazakh scientists such as: Karl Baipakov, Alexander Po...

"Science, Education and Innovations in the Context of Modern Problems" The aim of the Science & Education and Innovations Conference is to synthesize science and education, to apply innovative ideas of science in education. The innovations of modern science are sometimes not applied in education. Scientific innovations have been observed, especiall...

A crucificação de Jesus Cristo tornou-se um dos símbolos cristãos mais retratados na história da arte. O sofrimento de Cristo na cruz foi representado por importantes artistas, especialmente pintores, de forma muito diversificada ao longo dos tempos, seja explorando diversas técnicas de pintura, seja representando a vivacidade dolorosa das emoções...

The present issue is inspired by the conference Edgar Wind: Art and Embodiment, organised by Bernardino Branca and Benjamin Thomas at the Italian Cultural Institute of London on 28 and 29 October 2021. The aim of this issue is to reflect on a number of themes and concepts investigated by Edgar Wind throughout his intellectual career. Many of his wo...

Republican Shanghai was a renowned art capital. This article is based on a large-scale digital mapping project of the residential locations of 1,349 Shanghai artists. We analysed the transformative spatial distribution patterns of artists in relation to the city's social and urban conditions, and developed an artists’ habitation approach to elucida...

Re-evaluation of the Historical and Cultural Landscape of the Island of Rab is an interdisciplinary scientific project involving students of the Department of Art History (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb) aimed at training them in combining traditional methodologies with new technologies within the research of the tr...

This article aims to delve deeper in the underexplored but critical role Arctic Council representations and visual images have played over its first 20 years of existence. Through a visual discourse narrative of Arctic Council publications and media platforms, the article will explore how the Artic Council’s self-constructed visual narrative has ev...

This chapter critically reflects on the methodological potentials of augmented abstract comics and animation installations to positively impact public awareness of the lived experience of mental health through emotive responses to the installation VAST/O. In developing our approach, we employed Astrid von Rosen’s (Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal o...

Drawing upon research carried out in several different languages and across a variety of disciplines, The Mongol World documents how Mongol rule shaped the trajectory of Eurasian history from Central Europe to the Korean Peninsula, from the thirteenth century to the fifteenth century. Contributing authors consider how intercontinental environmental...

Zusammenfassung Kirchengeschichtliche und liturgiehistorische Forschungen wenden sich seit einiger Zeit wieder vermehrt dem Mittelalter und der Frühen Neuzeit zu. Besonderes Interesse finden dabei liturgische Rituale und Zeremonien, die einen fruchtbaren Austausch zu mediävistischen Fragestellungen zwischen der Theologie, Philologie, Musikgeschicht...

The purpose of the study is to identify the design aspects of a public lecture hall as an educational component of the socio-cultural environment in a modern city. Methodology. The study is based on structural-systemic, historical-cultural, comparative, logical methods, as well as art history methods. The core base of the study is scientific articl...

Prrsentación de las obras de la pintora Cristina Torres que acompañan la edición 13-14 de la Revista Colombiana de Pensamiento estético e historia del arte

Giusta Nicco Fasola (1901-1960) ed Ezia Gavazza (1928-2019), entrambe piemontesi sono due donne che a Genova hanno sviluppato carriere molto diverse, ma entrambe segnate dalla passione per la storia dell’arte, con la prima nel ruolo di maestra prediletta della seconda accanto ad Adolfo Venturi, Mario Salmi, Gèza de Francovich, una rete senza barrie...

From the mid-1990s, works of browser art emerged as a particular variant of net art or speculative software, developing alternatives to conventional internet browsers and rendering the content of web pages in a different way. Since we see them as productive image-machines, we consider both the phenomenology of their audio-visual output and their op...

The Montané Anthropological Museum, of the University of Havana, School of Biology, is the anthropological and archaeological exhibition institution with the longest tradition in Cuba. This paper describes the education experiences at the museum, at different levels of teaching. The institution is visited by students, mainly to expand their k...

Attraverso un’analisi interdisciplinare, il testo affronta il caso studio Prototypes, consistente nella proposta dell’artista C. Büchel di considerare i prototipi di muro di confine tra USA e Messico dei monumenti nazionali. Tramite gli strumenti teorici garantiti dai border studies, dalla filosofia analitica e dalla storia dell’arte contemporanea,...

“South Asian History, Culture and Archaeology”(SAHCA) is a quarterly peer reviewed journal that seeks to explore the close links between the different disciplines of history, art and archaeology. History is dependent upon sources and archaeological sources provide a vital component in the reconstruction of not only the remote past, but also of the...

Heritage hotels attract a large number of foreign and domestic tourists by offering luxurious experiences while also providing an opportunity to learn about the history, art, culture, tastes, traditions, and sentiments present in various eras in a region’s history. The literature on heritage lodging buildings is still sparse, limited, and lacking i...

Medieval falconry iconography is represented in luxury objects made of metal, ivory, material. These pieces are preserved in Art and Archaeological Museums as well as in Church treasures. Art History is the discipline use to study these important and significant remains of older cultures. In this case is added an archaeological and anthropological...

This is a piece of dissertation in Grade B+ level. I wrote this very general topic based on the elementary perspectives of literati painting, Chinese aesthetic spirits, Sinology, self-expressive painting, union between Heaven and Man, and coexistence between calligraphy and painting. I legitimately learn how to write a formal piece of Chinese art h...

The conference is organised as part of the international research network Euroweb, which seeks to rewrite the History of Europe based on its production, trade, consumption and reuse of textiles and dress. EuroWeb fosters a pan-European network of scholars from academia, museums, conservation, as well as cultural and creative industries. Scholars fr...

O detalhe pode assumir várias dimensões, entre o pormenor, uma parte num todo, um fragmento, elemento mínimo, marginal, liminar, passando pelo carácter de elemento autónomo, simbólico, significante, dispositivo modificador, até de um acaso, ou insignificância ou, pelo contrário, de um exagero formal. O nome detalhe reveste-se de uma extraordinária...

The most common way to consume art is through observation and acknowledgement of its existence. From the viewpoint of preserving art and cultural heritage, such passive consumption seems adequate. However, throughout history art has always been the subject of endless reinterpretations and its reframing has a possibility to shed new perspectives on...

Book Review

C’è un Futurismo con la "F" maiuscola e un futurismo con l'iniziale minuscola. Il primo è il Futurismo storico, fondato da Filippo Tommaso Marinetti nel 1909. È un movimento che ha segnato un periodo della storia dell’arte e della cultura. Il secondo è il futurismo eterno che deborda dai capitoli in cui la manualistica ha voluto rinchiudere il prim...

conference, Vienna, Nov 10-11/12, 2022 co-organised by the Research Unit for History of Art of the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Institute for Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Vendula Hnídková, Richard Kurdiovsky and Anna Stuhlpfarrer)

Como parte de la historia del arte y la literatura, las revistas que recogían su producción se han organizado alrededor de las más diversas temáticas. En la medida que el proceso civilizatorio avanzaba, estas publicaciones fueron especializándose y reunieron en su entorno a comunidades cada vez mejor definidas de artistas e intelectuales. La gran m...

My research idea started years ago when I began studying the brain. In medicine and now finishing psychology I set myself the task of demonstrating that what defines a work of art is how sensory each art work becomes in front of the viewer. This is not only the master's thesis, but the first chapter of the demonstration in the doctorate that a work...

Un'«archeologia del presente» dedicata al Novecento italiano in tutta la sua inquietudine e complessità. Un libro che, attraverso il prisma di contrapposizioni insieme artistiche, politiche e religiose, indaga il problema della difficile sopravvivenza della cultura italiana dopo la prima e la seconda Guerra mondiale; e i rapporti tra «nazione polit...

J.P. Morgan and the Federal Reserve - totally not a conspiracy.

YORDAN FILCHEV AND THE BULGARIAN SCIENTIFIC ILLUSTRATION IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE XX CENTURY Yordan Kostov Filchev is an artist whose creativity differs from the work of all other authors working in the field of scientific illustration in Bulgaria in the first half of the twentieth century. While researching a large collection of original scientif...

The seductive power of the Pictorial Portrait determined that, in the context of certain cultural eras, the portraits were made according to attitudes and expressions that would cover the aspects of philosophical, theological, aesthetic, or political ideals. Once it regains its place in the modern art of the 20th century, the Pictorial Portrait bec...

Setting out from Okakura Kakuzō and Ernest Fenollosa’s famous “discovery” of the Yumedono Kannon, this article will trace the contested construction of the categories of “religion” (shūkyō) and “fine art” (bijutsu) in Meiji Japan. In religious studies circles, it has become commonplace to think of “religion” as the only disciplinary master category...

Features of Persian art including meticulous designs, great complexity, and the romantic and heroic stories illustrated in the paintings in the 15th century underwent drastic changes in Herat. One of the most distinctive features of the Herat School was its continual use of various decorative motifs in painting. The Herat style in Persian art emerg...

To cite this chapter (APA style): Tóth, A. (2021). In the Footsteps of the Károlyi through their Gardens and Parks in today´s Slovakia. In M.Bostenaru Dan (Ed.), Heritage, Landscape and Restoration of Historical Gardens (pp. 25-60). Cuvillier Verlag Göttingen. https://d-nb.info/1253097224. ///// The book is dedicated to historical gardens seen fr...

The book TALE OF A RIVER CITY is as a collective work that aims to narrate the complex history between Antakya's inhabitants and the Asi River running through the city that has shaped Antakya's urban life and its reception for millennia. The book outlines the collaborative, interdisciplinary work of five researchers coming from different academic b...

Museum galleries foster engagement by creating singular experiences for guests to develop and refine their knowledge of topics related to history, art, and science. This assemblage of meaning is interesting for museums who carefully curate abstract, scientific information, like a dinosaur gallery. This study examined photographs taken by 50 patron-...

In the following essay, I propose to write about charcoal as it is employed by contemporary Indian artist Prabhakar Pachpute in his drawing. In his charcoal drawings, he depicts the daily life of the workers in the coal-mining town of Sasti, India. As a material, charcoal has layers of meaning deserving of theorisation and analysis. There is an exi...

Though this research focus on the sarcophagus of Mustafa Şevki Pasha and the gravestones in the hazire in terms of art history the different contents and functions attributed to the “space” over time is also revealed by the way. One can distinguish much data about the political, social and cultural structure of the period evaluating the inscription...

A culturally and geographically diverse region, Appalachia comprises innumerable – even contradictory – realities. This fact has been obscured by the enduring stereotypes of a racially homogenous (white), poor, ignorant, uncivilized region that is fixed in the past and resistant to progress. Such stereotypes have a long history, originating in the...

The interdisciplinary boundaries along which this text runs are art history, exhibition histories and philosophy, although we also take literary scholars in account. The question we have raised is as follows: How did the artists, architects or designers enter the exhibition space? We understand the exhibition space as a place of action (Ladislav He...

Book review of the "Conchophilia" book (Princeton Univ. Press), on the art history of shells in art, with an emphasis on Dutch and French still-live paintings.

O propósito desse escrito é relatar abusos e violências praticadas por homens artistas contra mulheres. Alguns desses artistas são considerados os "mestres" da história da arte canônica. O que a elevação desses homens a esse patamar significa? A "genialidade" serve de escusa para os abusos e violências cometidos por eles? E, se não serve, podemos s...

Por que nos livros de história da arte abundam representações de mulheres produzidas por homens, enquanto são escassas as referências a artistas mulheres? Reconhecendo o conceito de "complexos de visualidade", proposto por Nicholas Mirzoeff, dialogamos sobre a formação de uma iconografia tomada como "universal" a partir de uma rede de discursos que...

Jim Harvey was the artist who created the Brillo box that Andy Warhol copied and made famous. Warhol’s Brillo Boxes changed the course of art history and the entire field of aesthetics and the philosophy of art. Meanwhile, Jim Harvey died a failed second-generation Abstract Expressionist. To his death, Harvey refused to accept that his Brillo box w...

As the pandemic spread, several studies have warned about the repercussions on the emotional, mental and physical health of individuals. The project aimed to explore the influence of consumption and artistic practice on the feeling of health and well-being during the pandemic in the Ecuadorian towns of Manta, Guayaquil, and Quito. The project under...

In 1898, the United States declared war on Spain and "came to the aid" of the Cubans in the liberation struggle they had begun in 1895 against Spain. These events aroused a wide media coverage. Although the differences are evident between the Spanish and American press, both countries pursue the same goal: to offer their vision of the conflict and...

EXCERPT from the Introduction to the BA Dissertation : During the months leading up to the writing of this piece, I explored the literature available and noticed how the mainstream narrative mainly focuses on a handful of topics that are being researched, explored, and rewritten following almost a meticulous pattern. For want of a better word, I...

El concepto de cuerpo y de la danza se ha establecido como clave en las humanidades y ciencias sociales como campo de estudio heterogéneo, porque implica considerar la confluencia de la percepción corporal transmitida del pasado y la articulación con la reflexión teórica contemporánea. Para ejemplificar esta relación, en este artículo realizamos al...