904 resultados para Art History, Architecture
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In the second half of the fifteenth century, King Ferrante I of Naples (r. 1458-1494) dominated the political and cultural life of the Mediterranean world. His court was home to artists, writers, musicians, and ambassadors from England to Egypt and everywhere in between. Yet, despite its historical importance, Ferrantes court has been neglected in the scholarship. This dissertation provides a long-overdue analysis of Ferrantes artistic patronage and attempts to explicate the kings specific role in the process of art production at the Neapolitan court, as well as the experiences of artists employed therein. By situating Ferrante and the material culture of his court within the broader discourse of Early Modern art history for the first time, my project broadens our understanding of the function of art in Early Modern Europe. I demonstrate that, contrary to traditional assumptions, King Ferrante was a sophisticated patron of the visual arts whose political circumstances and shifting alliances were the most influential factors contributing to his artistic patronage. Unlike his father, Alfonso the Magnanimous, whose court was dominated by artists and courtiers from Spain, France, and elsewhere, Ferrante differentiated himself as a truly Neapolitan king. Yet Ferrantes court was by no means provincial. His residence, the Castel Nuovo in Naples, became the physical embodiment of his commercial and political network, revealing the accretion of local and foreign visual vocabularies that characterizes Neapolitan visual culture.
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In Edo-Japan (c.1603 1868) shunga, sexually explicit prints, paintings and illustrated books, were widely produced and disseminated. However, from the 1850s onwards, shunga was suppressed by the government and it has largely been omitted from art history, excluded from exhibitions and censored in publications. Although changes have taken place, cultural institutions continue to be cautious about what they collect and exhibit, with shunga largely remaining a prohibited subject in Japan. Since the 1970s there has been a gradual increase in the acceptance of shunga outside Japan, as evidenced in the growing number of exhibitions and publications. The initial impetus behind this thesis was: Why and how did shunga become increasingly acceptable in Europe and North America in the twentieth century, whilst conversely becoming unacceptable in post-Edo Japan? I discuss how and why attitudes to shunga in the UK and Japan have changed from the Edo period to the present day, and consider how definitions can affect this. My research examines how shunga has been dealt with in relation to private and institutional collecting and exhibitions. In order to gauge modern responses, the 2013 Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art exhibition at the British Museum is used as an in-depth study utilising mixed methods and an interdisciplinary approach to analyse curatorial and legal decisions, as well as visitor feedback. To-date there are no official or standardised guidelines for the acquisition, cataloguing, or display of sexually explicit artefacts. It is intended that institutions will benefit from my analysis of the changing perceptions of shunga and of previous shunga collections and exhibitions when dealing with shunga or other sexually explicit items in the future.
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Place in Time: The Role of Architecture in Establishing an Emotional Connection between Man and Time
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This thesis explores the role of architecture as a means of reconnecting humans to the passage of time. A neglect of the temporal in our built environment obscures understanding of the human condition in all of its sensory aspects. The exploration and design of a series of ritual engagements, both culturally, and architecturally, begin to offer a venue through which designers can engage human senses. Rituals act as a means of demarcating the passage of time. It is through the engagement with these moments that people can begin to gain a richer understanding of the ephemeral nature of their own existence. The Pritzker Architecture Prize serves as the selected ritual of exploration because of its celebration of humanity and the art of architecture. However, the notion of ritual is explored down to the level of detail of engagement with handrails and door handles.
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Our proposal aims to display the analysis techniques, methodologies as well as the most relevant results expected within the Exhibitium project framework (http://www.exhibitium.com). Awarded by the BBVA Foundation, the Exhibitium project is being developed by an international consortium of several research groups . Its main purpose is to build a comprehensive and structured data repository about temporary art exhibitions, captured from the web, to make them useful and reusable in various domains through open and interoperable data systems.
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Dans le cadre de la clbration du nouveau millnaire, la National Gallery de Londres a organis l'exposition Encounters: New Art from Old (14 juin - 17 septembre 2000). La formule consistait inviter vingt-cinq artistes contemporains choisir une uvre de la collection permanente du muse et s'en inspirer afin d'en crer une nouvelle. Certaines des uvres produites pour loccasion ont t exposes prs de leurs sources dans les salles historiques de la collection du muse. Ce mmoire examine comment la formule de cette exposition et son accrochage anachronique agissent de faon directe sur la temporalit de la collection historique en invitant sa ractualisation, et la mise en valeur de la cration. Il situe cette formule dans le cadre dun regain dintrt pour les collections, dcortique la slection des artistes par le muse et la slection des uvres de la collection par les artistes. Il propose aussi une classification des modalits par lesquelles ceux-ci r-interprtent la tradition. Enfin, en sappuyant sur la thorie de la rception, ce mmoire considre les rponses gnres par lexposition : celles des artistes aux uvres de leurs prdcesseurs, celles des critiques et celles du public.
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Dans le cadre de la clbration du nouveau millnaire, la National Gallery de Londres a organis l'exposition Encounters: New Art from Old (14 juin - 17 septembre 2000). La formule consistait inviter vingt-cinq artistes contemporains choisir une uvre de la collection permanente du muse et s'en inspirer afin d'en crer une nouvelle. Certaines des uvres produites pour loccasion ont t exposes prs de leurs sources dans les salles historiques de la collection du muse. Ce mmoire examine comment la formule de cette exposition et son accrochage anachronique agissent de faon directe sur la temporalit de la collection historique en invitant sa ractualisation, et la mise en valeur de la cration. Il situe cette formule dans le cadre dun regain dintrt pour les collections, dcortique la slection des artistes par le muse et la slection des uvres de la collection par les artistes. Il propose aussi une classification des modalits par lesquelles ceux-ci r-interprtent la tradition. Enfin, en sappuyant sur la thorie de la rception, ce mmoire considre les rponses gnres par lexposition : celles des artistes aux uvres de leurs prdcesseurs, celles des critiques et celles du public.
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As Residncias Cistercienses em S. Bento de Cstris que se vm realizando desde 2013 tm como primeiro objectivo reinventar na contemporaneidade a densidade histrica do discurso cisterciense, integrando a realidade deste mosteiro tanto numa ampla geografia da Ordem de Cister em Portugal e na Europa, como na histria da regio e do pas. Inspiradas nas questes da Histria, da Arte, da Arquitectura, da Msica, do Patrimnio e da Paisagem, as Residncias Cistercienses em Cstris vm apostando no debate de questes actuais ligadas aos espaos monsticos e ao seu futuro, nomeadamente os cistercienses. Esta aposta concretiza-se tambm no presente trabalho, DO ESPRITO DO LUGAR. ESTTICA. SILNCIO, ESPAO, LUZ, resultado das I e II Residncias Cistercienses (2013 e 2014), e integra estudos que se reportam especialmente ao Silncio e s suas vrias linguagens e significados e s dimenses da Esttica monstico-religiosa, com algum privilgio para as temticas da Msica. A apropriao do mosteiro pelo silncio e pela msica e a apreciao do esplio musical e instrumental de S. Bento de Cstris permitem uma melhor percepo das diversidades conjunturais e dos seus ritmos, aliando-se s dimenses de valorizao patrimonial, eacompanhando-as de sugestes estticas na pintura, escultura, pintura mural, azulejaria, no sentido da fruio plena dos espaos. A riqueza deste evento, a Residncia Cisterciense no mosteiro de S. Bento de Cstris, permitir que o futuro deste patrimnio, de tanta diversidade e espessura histrico-cultural, continue a ser debatido e a justificar edies futuras resultantes dos trabalhos de investigao a apresentados e debatidos.
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Professor John Frazer and architect Gianni Botsford met as tutor and student in 1994 at the Architural Association. Two years of never talking about architecture and nearly burning the studio down led to a new way of approaching design.
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The 2007 Australian Federal election not only saw the election of a Labor government after 11 years of John Howards conservative Coalition government. It also saw new levels of political engagement through the Internet, including the rise of citizen journalism as an alternative outlet and mode of reporting on the election. This paper reports on the You Decide 2007 project, an initiative undertaken by a QUT-based research team to facilitate online news reporting on the election on a hyper-local, electorate-based model. We evaluate the You Decide initiative on the basis of: promoting greater citizen participation in Australian politics; new ways of engaging citizens and key stakeholders in policy deliberation; establishing new links between mainstream media and independent online media; and broadening the base of political participation to include a wider range of citizen and groups.
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Health care accounts for a substantial and growing share of national expenditures, and Australias health-care system faces some unprecedented pressures. This paper examines the contribution of creative expertise and services to Australian health care. They are found to be making a range of contributions to the development and delivery of health-care goods and services, the initial training and ongoing professionalism of doctors and nurses, and the effective functioning of health-care buildings. Creative activities within health-care services are also undertaken by medical professionals and patients. Key functions that creative activities address are innovation and service delivery in information management and analysis, and making complex information comprehensible or more useful, assisting communication and reducing psycho-social and distance-mediated barriers, and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of services.
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The depiction of drapery (generalised cloth as opposed to clothing) is a well-established convention of Neo-Classical sculpture and is often downplayed by art historians as of purely rhetorical value. It can be argued however that sculpted drapery has served a spectrum of expressive ends, the variety and complexity of which are well illustrated by a study of its use in portrait sculpture. For the Neo-Classical portrait bust, drapery had substantial iconographic and political meaning, signifying the new Enlightenment notions of masculine authority. Within the portrait bust, drapery also served highly strategic aesthetic purposes, alleviating the abruptness of the truncated format and the compromising visual consequences of the cropped body. With reference to Joseph Nollekens portraits of English statesman Charles James Fox and the authors own sculptural practice, this paper analyses the Neo-Classical use of drapery to propose that rendered fabric, far from mere stylistic flourish, is a highly charged visual signifier with much scope for exploration in contemporary sculptural practice.
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Brisbane's sub-tropical climate, vegetation and urban history as a British settlement, endow the region with many characteristics that are familiar in KwaZulu-Natal. Brisbane settlement, firstly as a penal conlony to accommodate the hardiest criminals dispatched from Sydney, was established in 1825 on a wide river, several kilometers upstream from Moreton Bay with the Pacific Ocean beyond. The penal colony was short lived and was soon opened up to free settlement in 1842. The growth of the fledgling town was characterized by brick warehouse and service buildings to the port that was established on its riverbanks, resembling those of the old Point Road area in Durban. Government and administration buildings heralded Brisbane as the captial city of the State of Queensland, annexed from New South Wales in 1859. Morphological studies reveal that Brisbane had reached its first zenith around 1930 as a commerical city of four and five storey buildings. The urban form remained stagnant until the post-1960's building boom and the developments from this period on, consolidated land amalgamations largely ignoring the urban characteristics of the established city. Public space was poorly observed, resulting in a city that had turned its back on the river. It is only in recent times that the currency of good urban design, under the custodial direction of the City Council, has fostered a re-engagemed urban realm that, enabled by the recent building boom, has delivered high quality urban environments
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Cultural policy that attempts to foster the Australian film industrys growth and development in an era of globalisation is coming under increasing pressure. Throughout the 2000s, there has been a substantial boom in Australian horror films led by runaway horror film Saw (2004), Wolf Creek (2005), and Undead (2003), achieving varying levels of popularity and commercial success worldwide. However, emerging within a national cinema driven by public subsidy and valuing quality and cultural content over entertainment and commercialism, horror films have generally been antithetical to these objectives. Consequently, the recent boom in horror films has occurred largely outside the purview and subvention of cultural policy. This paper argues that global forces and emerging production and distribution models are challenging the narrowness of cultural policy a narrowness that mandates a particular film culture, circumscribes certain notions of value and limits the variety of films produced domestically. Despite their low-culture status, horror films have been well suited to the Australian film industrys financial limitations, they are a growth strategy for producers, and a training ground for emerging filmmakers.
