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Book Migration into art

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  • Author : Anne Ring Petersen
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2017-12-13
  • ISBN : 152612193X
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Migration into art written by Anne Ring Petersen and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses a topic of increasing importance to artists, art historians and scholars of cultural studies, migration studies and international relations: migration as a profoundly transforming force that has remodelled artistic and art institutional practices across the world. It explores contemporary art’s critical engagement with migration and globalisation as a key source for improving our understanding of how these processes transform identities, cultures, institutions and geopolitics. The author explores three interwoven issues of enduring interest: identity and belonging, institutional visibility and recognition of migrant artists, and the interrelations between aesthetics and politics, including the balancing of aesthetics, politics and ethics in representations of forced migration.

Book Guimet Vis    Vis

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  • Author : Rina Banerjee
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9782916275963
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book Guimet Vis Vis written by Rina Banerjee and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chim  ras of India and the West

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  • Author : Musée National des Arts Asiatiques Guimet (Paris)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book Chim ras of India and the West written by Musée National des Arts Asiatiques Guimet (Paris) and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rina Banerjee

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9789791090261
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book Rina Banerjee written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the images comes a text by Rina Banerjee and an essay by Laura Steward (art historian and curator of contemporary art exhibitions) and Caroline Arhuero (in charge of the contemporary art collection of the Musée Guimet and curator of the exhibition)

Book Nominal Things

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  • Author : Jeffrey Moser
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2023-04-20
  • ISBN : 0226822478
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Nominal Things written by Jeffrey Moser and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-04-20 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the medieval study of ancient bronzes influenced the production of knowledge and the making of things in East Asia. This book opens in eleventh-century China, where scholars were the first in world history to systematically illustrate and document ancient artifacts. As Jeffrey Moser argues, the visual, technical, and conceptual mechanisms they developed to record these objects laid the foundations for methods of visualizing knowledge that scholars throughout early modern East Asia would use to make sense of the world around them. Of the artifacts these scholars studied, the most celebrated were bronze ritual vessels that had been cast nearly two thousand years earlier. While working to make sense of the relationship between the bronzes’ complex shapes and their inscribed glyphs, they came to realize that the objects were “nominal things”—objects inscribed with names that identified their own categories and uses. Eleventh-century scholars knew the meaning of these glyphs from hallowed Confucian writings that had been passed down through centuries, but they found shocking disconnects between the names and the bronzes on which they were inscribed. Nominal Things traces the process by which a distinctive system of empiricism was nurtured by discrepancies between the complex materiality of the bronzes and their inscriptions. By revealing the connections between the new empiricism and older ways of knowing, the book explains how scholars refashioned the words of the Confucian classics into material reality.

Book Assyriologische und archaeologische studien Hermann V  Hilprecht zu seinem f  nfundzwanzisten doktorjubil  um und seinem f  nfzigsten geburtstage  28  juli  gewidmet von seinen kollegen  freunden und verehrern

Download or read book Assyriologische und archaeologische studien Hermann V Hilprecht zu seinem f nfundzwanzisten doktorjubil um und seinem f nfzigsten geburtstage 28 juli gewidmet von seinen kollegen freunden und verehrern written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Bibliography of Indian Archaeology

Download or read book Annual Bibliography of Indian Archaeology written by Instituut Kern, Leyden and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Paris Primitive

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  • Author : Sally Price
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2007-10-15
  • ISBN : 0226680703
  • Pages : 251 pages

Download or read book Paris Primitive written by Sally Price and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-10-15 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1990 Jacques Chirac, the future president of France and a passionate fan of non-European art, met Jacques Kerchache, a maverick art collector with the lifelong ambition of displaying African sculpture in the holy temple of French culture, the Louvre. Together they began laying plans, and ten years later African fetishes were on view under the same roof as the Mona Lisa. Then, in 2006, amidst a maelstrom of controversy and hype, Chirac presided over the opening of a new museum dedicated to primitive art in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower: the Musée du Quai Branly. Paris Primitive recounts the massive reconfiguration of Paris’s museum world that resulted from Chirac’s dream, set against a backdrop of personal and national politics, intellectual life, and the role of culture in French society. Along with exposing the machinations that led to the MQB’s creation, Sally Price addresses the thorny questions it raises about the legacy of colonialism, the balance between aesthetic judgments and ethnographic context, and the role of institutions of art and culture in an increasingly diverse France. Anyone with a stake in the myriad political, cultural, and anthropological issues raised by the MQB will find Price’s account fascinating.

Book Between the Empires

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  • Author : Patrick Olivelle
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2006-07-13
  • ISBN : 9780199775071
  • Pages : 552 pages

Download or read book Between the Empires written by Patrick Olivelle and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-13 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the result of an international conference organized by the South Asia Institute at the University of Texas. Patrick Olivelle has collected and edited the best papers to emerge from the conference. Part I of the book looks at what can be construed from archeological evidence. Part II concerns itself with the textual evidence for the period. Taken together, these essays offer an unprecedented look at Indian culture and society in this distant epoch.

Book Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland

Download or read book Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland written by Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland

Download or read book Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In the Museum of Man

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  • Author : Alice L. Conklin
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2013-10-04
  • ISBN : 080146904X
  • Pages : 389 pages

Download or read book In the Museum of Man written by Alice L. Conklin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-04 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Museum of Man offers new insight into the thorny relationship between science, society, and empire at the high-water mark of French imperialism and European racism. Alice L. Conklin takes us into the formative years of French anthropology and social theory between 1850 and 1900; then deep into the practice of anthropology, under the name of ethnology, both in Paris and in the empire before and especially after World War I; and finally, into the fate of the discipline and its practitioners under the German Occupation and its immediate aftermath. Conklin addresses the influence exerted by academic networks, museum collections, and imperial connections in defining human diversity socioculturally rather than biologically, especially in the wake of resurgent anti-Semitism at the time of the Dreyfus Affair and in the 1930s and 1940s. Students of the progressive social scientist Marcel Mauss were exposed to the ravages of imperialism in the French colonies where they did fieldwork; as a result, they began to challenge both colonialism and the scientific racism that provided its intellectual justification. Indeed, a number of them were killed in the Resistance, fighting for the humanist values they had learned from their teachers and in the field. A riveting story of a close-knit community of scholars who came to see all societies as equally complex, In the Museum of Man serves as a reminder that if scientific expertise once authorized racism, anthropologists also learned to rethink their paradigms and mobilize against racial prejudice—a lesson well worth remembering today.

Book Assyiologische und archaeologische Studien

Download or read book Assyiologische und archaeologische Studien written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain   Ireland

Download or read book Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain Ireland written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliography of Indian Archaeology

Download or read book Bibliography of Indian Archaeology written by Instituut Kern, Leyden and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Holy Workshop of Virtue

Download or read book The Holy Workshop of Virtue written by and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saint John the Little was a monk and hegumen of Scetis (Wadi Natrun) during the first great period of early Egyptian monasticism. The Apophthegmata preserve some fifty sayings by or about him (see CS 59, 85 '96). In addition, Zacharias, eighth-century Bishop of Sakha, wrote his Life, more than seventy percent of which is composed of material not found in the Apophthegmata. John bears witness to the formative period of early Egyptian monasticism. His Life, with its emphasis on obedience and compassion, offers a lively witness to the earliest monastic traditions and to their transmission and continuing importance in the Coptic Church. This book contains an introduction to the textual history of the Life of Saint John the Little (339 '409) along with fresh English translations of the Bohairic and the Syriac Lifes of John the Little plus the definitive Bohairc Life in the Coptic text. It will be of interest particularly to academics, monastics, and others interested in monasticism, early Christian monasticism, early Church History, the Coptic Church, or monastic spirituality. Tim Vivian is associate professor of religious studies at California State University, Bakersfield. He is the author of numerous books and articles on early Christian monasticism, including The Life of Antony (with Apostolos N. Athanassakis), CS202, and Becoming Fire: Through the Year with the Desert Fathers and Mothers, CS225, both published by Cistercian Publications. Rowan Greer is the Walter Gray Professor Emeritus of Anglican Studies at Yale Divinity School. His scholarly work has been primarily in patristics. Retired since 1997, he lives in New Haven, Connecticut. Maged S. A. Mikhal is assistant professor of history at California State University, Fullerton. His publications and research focus on the history of Egypt during the early Islamic period.

Book Ruthless Compassion

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  • Author : Robert N. Linrothe
  • Publisher : Serindia Publications, Inc.
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 0906026512
  • Pages : 380 pages

Download or read book Ruthless Compassion written by Robert N. Linrothe and published by Serindia Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical development of Esoteric Buddhism in India is still known only in outline. A few verifiably early texts do give some insight into the origin of the ideas which would later develop and spread to East and Southeast Asia, and to Tibet. However, there is another kind of evidence which can be harnessed to the project of reconstructing the history of Esoteric Buddhist doctrines and practice. This evidence consists of art objects, mainly sculpture, which survive in significant numbers from the 6th to the 13th century.