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The study of scents and all things olfactory is thriving, a sign of the great interest that our information-based society feels for a sense that seems to offer a direct and immediate experience of reality. But smells resist description and representation, especially...
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This study is the first to examine the presence of prose lyricism as a tendency in Brazilian novels. In addition to examining a selection of works of fiction and writers between the nineteenth and the twenty-first centuries, the book also addresses the absence of the...
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This book is an offering. It contains eighteen essays in honour of Timothy Mathews, written by leading scholars in the fields of French, Comparative Literature, Visual Culture and Creative Critical Writing. These essays examine the power of serendipitous encounter...
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This volume reflects on the complexity of relations between traditional and new media. Articles collected here focus on the increasing dynamism and fluidity of dependencies between literature, visual arts, digital media, or internet artistic projects. They analyse the...
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Comics have great potential to depict an almost infinite range of themes, questions and lives. But what about their ability to express and interpret philosophical concepts? How can we differentiate between the representation of theoretical concepts in and of themselves,...
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Das vorliegende Buch bietet hermeneutische und phänomenologische Reflexionen über das Kunstwerk aus der Sicht sowohl des Künstlers – als Schaffendem – als auch des Rezipienten. Erörtert werden die Materialität des Kunstwerks, Bronze, Marmor, Farbe und Klang sowie die...
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Although Anselm Kiefer’s work is routinely compared with the Gesamtkunstwerk, the «total work of art» pioneered by Richard Wagner, Disorders at the Borders represents the first time this relationship has been thoroughly investigated. But it is a relationship that...
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In The Preamble as Policy: A Guidebook to Governance and Civic Duty the authors show that the Preamble to the Constitution is more than an introduction to the document; it sets the tone for the rest of the document and how it should be viewed and interpreted. It is also...
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The book covers a very special moment in the life of Piotr Michalowski (1800–55), the most outstanding painter of Polish Romanticism. In his early life, Michalowski built a career as a technocrat and later became head of the state-owned heavy industry. At the time, he...
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Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Narrative Aesthetics in Video Gamesis a collection of contemporary research and interpretation that explores the narrative structures in video games and ludonarrative content design in related media. Featuring coverage of a broad range...
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Die Publikation analysiert das Kulturgutschutzgesetz (KGSG) vom 6.8.2016 aus ökonomischer Perspektive. Im Fokus stehen die Kunstintermediäre des Sekundärmarktes. Maßstab für die ökonomische Analyse des KGSG ist der Telos des Gesetzes. Primäre Gesetzesziele sind mitunter...
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Today, the world is facing climate change, wealth inequality, housing crises, food shortages, mass migration, and now a global health pandemic. Cities are at the heart of both these problems and their solutions. Urban communication scholars are well-poised to examine...
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In the first three decades of the twentieth century, artists, writers, musicians, and architects from both sides of the Atlantic interacted to create a modern style for Brazil. Their works shaped Brazilian national expression and self-definition for the twentieth...
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Ein erster Untersuchungsgegenstand dieses Buches sind die Vorstellungen, was die Renaissance sei, wie sie von Autoren des Zeitalters selber stammen und aus der späteren Forschung. Außerdem wird eine Übersicht über die dominierenden Motive angelegt, die sich im...
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Im Mittelpunkt dieser Untersuchung steht die umfassende Analyse der Seebilder Jacob van Ruisdaels. Dabei wird die künstlerische Leistung Ruisdaels unter dem Einfluss sowohl der Natur- und Kunstauffassung als auch der gesellschaftspolitischen Entwicklungen des Goldenen...
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Die interdisziplinäre Studie beleuchtet die Rezeption der Glasmalerei in der Schweiz im Kontext der Nationenbildung im langen 19. Jahrhundert. Im Zentrum steht das kleinformatige Glasbild aus der frühen Neuzeit, das von der Kunstforschung als nationales Kunstdenkmal...
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Conceived by Wagner as a way to recover the synthesis of arts at the core of Greek tragedy, the Gesamtkunstwerk played a significant role in post-Romantic and avant-garde aesthetics. It was designed to regenerate and defend the public function of art against mass...
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