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Published 2015
Pentecostal aesthetics : theological reflections in a pentecostal philosophy of art and aesthetics /

: Pentecostals have not sufficiently worked out a distinctively Pentecostal philosophy of art and aesthetics. In Pentecostal Aesthetics: Theological Reflections in a Pentecostal Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics , with a foreword by Amos Yong, Steven Félix-Jäger corrects this by reflecting theologically on art and aesthetics from a global Pentecostal perspective, particularly through a pneumatic Pentecostal lens. Félix-Jäger contends that a Pentecostal philosophy of art and aesthetics must comply with the global, experiential, and pneumatocentric nature of the Pentecostal movement. Such a philosophy can be ontologically grounded in a relativistic theory of art. Theological reflections concerning the nature and purpose of art must then be sensitive to the ontological foundations secured thereof. In this fashion, Pentecostals can gain ample insight about the Spirit's work in today's contemporary artworld.
: 1 online resource (ix, 224 pages) : chiefly color illustrations. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004291621 : 1876-2247 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2020
Imagination and Art: Explorations in Contemporary Theory /

: This transdisciplinary project represents the most comprehensive study of imagination to date. The eclectic group of international scholars who comprise this volume propose bold and innovative theoretical frameworks for (re-) conceptualizing imagination in all of its divergent forms. Imagination and Art: Explorations in Contemporary Theory explores the complex nuances, paradoxes, and aporias related to the plethora of artistic mediums in which the human imagination manifests itself. As a fundamental attribute of our species, which other organisms also seem to possess with varying degrees of sophistication, imagination is the very fabric of what it means to be human into which everything is woven. This edited collection demonstrates that imagination is the resin that binds human civilization together for better or worse.
: 1 online resource. : 9789004436350
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Published 2013
Art, intellect and politics : a diachronic perspective /

: The volume explores the relationship of artists and intellectuals from ancient Greece to modern times. Special attention is paid to Plato, Augustan poets (including the reception), Soviet art (Mayakowsky) and Jewish intellectuals. Non European contexts (China, Turkey) are treated as well.
: 1 online resource (xv, 634 pages) : 9789004242203 : 1877-0029 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 1992
Jewish historiography and iconography in early and Medieval Christianity /

: Series: Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum Section 1 - The Jewish people in the first century Historical geography, political history, social, cultural and religious life and institutions Edited by S. Safrai and M. Stern in cooperation with D. Flusser and W.C. van Unnik Section 2 - The Literature of the Jewish People in the Period of the Second Temple and the Talmud Section 3 - Jewish Traditions in Early Christian Literature
: 1 online resource (xviii, 307 pages) : illustrations. : Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-277) and indexes. : 9789004275157 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2017
Haecceities.

: Haecceities: Essentialism, Identity, and Abstraction is both an artistic and philosophical examination of the limits of Abstraction in art and of kinds of radical identity that are determined in the identification of those limits. Building on his work Subjects and Objects , Strayer shows how the fundamental conditions of making and apprehending works of art can be used, in concert with language, thought, and perception, as 'material' for producing the more Abstract and radical artworks possible. Certain limits of Abstraction and possibilities of radical identity are then identified that are critically and philosophically considered. They prove to be so extreme that the concepts artwork, abstraction, identity, and object in art, philosophy, and philosophy of art, have to be reconsidered.
: Description based upon print version of record.
10.2 Dualities and Identities. : 1 online resource. : 9789004338449 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2018
The plant contract : art's return to vegetal life /

: The Plant Contract argues that visual and performance art can help change our perception of the vegetal world, and can return us to nature and thought. Via an investigation into the wasteland, robotany, feminist plants, and nature rights, this phytology-love story investigates how contemporary art is mediating the effects of plant-blindness, caused by human disassociation from the natural world. It is also a gesture of respect for the genius of vegetal life, where new science proves plants can learn, communicate, remember, make decisions, and associate. Art is a litmus test for how climate change affects human perception. This book responds to that test by expressing plant-philosophy to a wider public, through an interrogation of plant-art.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004360549 : 2213-0659 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2017
Bilderwelten : ägyptische Bilder und ägyptologische Kunst : Vorarbeiten für eine bildwissenschaftliche Ägyptologie /

: Egyptologists have been debating for decades about whether or not Egyptian images classify as art . Nevertheless, the term 'art' still serves as a guiding concept for Egyptology. Kai Widmaier offers an overview of how different art-historical interpretive methods influence Egyptological research. His study demonstrates that, due to its adherence to the term art , Egyptology has considerably dissociated Egyptian images from their original contexts. Bilderwelten combines the analysis of Egyptian images from the 6th to the 18th Dynasty with methodological reflection. This leads to both a new terminology of style as well as to an alternative approach to Egyptian images. By differentiating systematically between Egyptian images and Egyptological art , this book lays the foundation for an Egyptology that follows the path of Visual Studies instead of adhering to questionable art-historical methods.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004347748 : 0169-9601 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2020
À l'orientale : collecting, displaying and appropriating Islamic art and architecture in the 19th and early 20th centuries /

: "The present volume offers a collection of essays that examine the mechanisms and strategies of collecting, displaying and appropriating Islamic art in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many studies in this book concentrate on lesser known collections of Islamic art, situated in Central and Eastern Europe that until now have received little attention from scholars. A section of the volume focuses on the figure of the Swiss collector Henri Moser Charlottenfels, whose important, still largely unstudied collection of Islamic art is now being preserved at the Bernisches Historisches Museum, Switzerland. Contributors to the volume include young researchers and established scholars from Western and Eastern Europe and beyond: Albert Lutz (foreword), Roger Nicholas Balsiger, Moya Carey, Valentina Colonna, Francine Giese, Hélène Guérin, Barbara Karl, Katrin Kaufmann, Sarah Keller, Agnieszka Kluczewska Wójcik, Inessa Kouteinikova, Axel Langer, Maria Medvedeva, Ágnes Sebestyén, Alban von Stockhausen, Ariane Varela Braga, Mercedes Volait. Les contributions de l'ouvrage examinent le mécanisme et les stratégies relatifs à la collection, la présentation et l'appropriation des arts de l'Islam au XIXe siècle et début du XXe siècle. Elles mettent l'accent sur des collections situées en Europe centrale et orientale, lesquelles ont été peu étudiées jusqu'à présent. Une partie de l'ouvrage est dédiée à la figure du collectionneur Suisse Henri Moser Charlottenfels, dont les objets se trouvent aujourd'hui au Bernisches Historisches Museum (Suisse) et qui ont été de même peu étudiés. Les textes émanent de jeunes chercheurs comme de chercheurs confirmés, basés en Europe occidentale et orientale, et au-delà".
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and indexes. : 9789004412644

Published 2016
Arthur Upham Pope and a new survey of Persian art /

: In Arthur Upham Pope and A New Survey of Persian Art , fourteen scholars explore the legacy of Arthur Upham Pope (1881-1969) by tracing the formation of Persian art scholarship and connoisseurship during the twentieth century. Widely considered as a self-made scholar, curator, and entrepreneur, Pope was credited for establishing the basis of what we now categorize broadly as Persian art. His unrivalled professional achievement, together with his personal charisma, influenced the way in which many scholars and collectors worldwide came to understand the art, architecture and material culture of the Persian world. This ultimately resulted in the establishment of the aesthetic criteria for assessing the importance of cultural remains from modern-day Iran. With contributions by Lindsay Allen, Sheila S. Blair, Jonathan M. Bloom, Talinn Grigor, Robert Hillenbrand, Yuka Kadoi, Sumru Belger Krody, Judith A. Lerner, Kimberly Masteller, Cornelia Montgomery, Bernard O'Kane, Keelan Overton, Laura Weinstein, and Donald Whitcomb.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004309906 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2011
Subversive strategies in contemporary Chinese art

: What is art and what is its role in a China that is changing at a dizzying speed? These questions lie at the heart of Chinese contemporary art. Subversive Strategies paves the way for the rebirth of a Chinese aesthetics adequate to the art whose sheer energy and imaginative power is subverting the ideas through which western and Chinese critics think about art. The first collection of essays by American and Chinese philosophers and art historians, Subversive Strategies begins by showing how the art reflects current crises and is working them out through bodies gendered and political. The essays raise the question of Chinese identity in a global world and note a blurring of the boundary between art and everyday life.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004201477 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 1994
Kunst und Ontologie : Für Roman Ingarden zum 100. Geburtstag /

: This collection of 12 essays at the 100th anniversary of Roman Ingarden is to show the actuality of the outstanding Polish representative of twentieth century philosophy. The authors take up Ingarden's main philosophical topics and, accordingly, deal with phenomenological and ontological problems on the various modes of givenness and existence in the wide range of real and intentional being, true and fictional existence, and they devote particular interest to Ingarden's conception of reality as well as to his aesthetics and theory of arts.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004455740
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Published 2022
Platonism and Christianity in Late Ancient Cosmology : God, Soul, Matter /

: The book breaks new ground by examining ideas about the cosmos, its shape, and its origin in late antiquity. Leading international experts discuss key texts and situate them in their historical environment.Les articles innovants de ce volume examinent les idées sur le cosmos, sa forme et son origine dans l'Antiquité tardive. Des spécialistes internationaux de premier plan présentent des éditions inédites de nouveaux fragments, en approfondissant les textes clés, les situant dans leur cadre historique complexe. : 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004518469
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Published 2004
Mutilation and Transformation : Damnatio Memoriae and Roman Imperial Portraiture /

: The condemnation of memory inexorably altered the visual landscape of imperial Rome. Representations of 'bad' emperors, such as Caligula, Nero, Domitian, Commodus, or Elagabalus were routinely reconfigured into likenesses of victorious successors or revered predecessors. Alternatively, portraits could be physically attacked and mutilated or even executed in effigy. From the late first century B.C. until the fourth century A.D., the recycling and destruction of images of emperors, empresses, and other members of the imperial family occurred on a vast scale and often marked periods of violent political transition. This volume catalogues and interprets the sculptural, glyptic, numismatic and epigraphic evidence for damnatio memoriae and ultimately reveals its praxis to be at the core of Roman cultural identity.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789047404705
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Published 2011
Euripides and the language of craft

: This first in-depth account of Euripides and the visual arts demonstrates how the tragedian used language to visual effect, whether through allusion or actual references to objects, motifs built around real or imaginary objects, or the use of technical terminology. The evidence presented in this study corroborates the concern for realism and the genre detail for which Euripides is parodied in Aristophanes' Frogs and presents him as a man of his time, like Socrates, fully versed in the ways and means of the visual arts as well as the verbal. In revealing the extent of the visual inclination of Euripides' language, this study reflects upon the larger dialogue between text and image, image and text.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-459) and indexes. : 9789004201149 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2020
The world of Disney : from antiquarianism to archaeology /

: Dr John Disney (1779-1857) was the benefactor of the first chair in archaeology at a British university. He also donated his major collection to the University of Cambridge. The sculptures continue to be displayed in the Fitzwilliam Museum. The Disney family traced its origins back to the Norman invasion of England, and the family home was at Norton Disney in Lincolnshire. Disney's father, the Reverend John Disney DD (1746-1816) left the Church of England to become a minister at the Unitarian Essex Street Chapel in London. A major sponsor of the chapel was Thomas Brand-Hollis of The Hyde, Essex, who bequeathed the house and his Grand Tour collection (formed with Thomas Hollis) on his death in 1804 to the Reverend John Disney. Disney inherited part of the classical collection of his uncle and father-in-law Lewis Disney-Ffytche, owner of the 18th century pleasure gardens, Le Désert de Retz, outside Paris.
: Also issued in print: 2020. : 1 online resource (154 pages) : illustrations. : Specialized. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9781789698282 (PDF ebook) :

Published 1973
Isis lactans : Corpus des monuments gréco-romains d'Isis allaitant Harpocrate.

: At head of title: V. Tran tam Tinh, Yvette Labrecque. : 1 online resource (225 pages, 78 plates) : illustrations. : Includes bibliographical references (p. ix-xi) and index. : 9789004295032 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2022
Platonism and Christianity in Late Ancient Cosmology : God, Soul, Matter /

: The book breaks new ground by examining ideas about the cosmos, its shape, and its origin in late antiquity. Leading international experts discuss key texts and situate them in their historical environment.Les articles innovants de ce volume examinent les idées sur le cosmos, sa forme et son origine dans l'Antiquité tardive. Des spécialistes internationaux de premier plan présentent des éditions inédites de nouveaux fragments, en approfondissant les textes clés, les situant dans leur cadre historique complexe. : 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004518469
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Published 1980
L'egittomania in pitture e mosaici romano-campani della prima età imperiale /

: 1 online resource (xiii, 107 pages, [69] pages of plates (2 folded)) : illustrations (some color) : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004295643 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 1987
Corpus cultus Iovis Dolicheni (CCID) /

: Errata slip inserted.
Includes indexes. : 1 online resource (xxiv, 422 pages, [cxxxiv] pages of plates) : illustrations. : Includes bibliographical references (p. xvii-xxiv). : 9789004295742 : 0531-1950 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2015
Museum archetypes and collecting in the ancient world /

: Museum Archetypes and Collecting in the Ancient World offers a broad, yet detailed analysis of the phenomenon of collecting in the ancient world through a museological lens. In the last two decades this has provided a basis for exciting interdisciplinary explorations by archaeologists, art historians, and historians of the history of collecting. This compendium of essays by different specialists is the first general overview of the reasons why ancient civilizations from Archaic Greece to the Late Classical/Early Christian period amassed objects and displayed them together in public, private and imaginary contexts. It addresses the ranges of significance these proto-museological conditions gave to the objects both in sacred and secular settings.
: 1 online resource (xiv, 222 pages) : illustrations. : Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-192) and index. : 9789004283480 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.