The glass plates of Ludwig Bickell: Invaluable sources for art history and the history of photography, for conservation and cultural studies

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-34
Author(s):  
Sonja Fessel

The photography collection of the German documentation centre for art history, Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte – Bildarchiv Foto Marburg (DDK), comprises more than 2.8 million objects. These include roughly 500,000 glass negatives, of which nearly 3,000 were made by the first Hessian state conservator Ludwig Bickell between 1870 and 1901. These early glass plates show a large number of retouchings and traces of their production and usage. This makes them rich sources for photographic and art historical or cultural historical research as well as conservation studies.

2006 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Eliza Linhares Borges

O presente artigo toma a fotografia como ponto de partida para refletir sobre os possíveis diálogos entre dois campos de conhecimento específicos: a História Social da Cultura e a História da Arte. Além de analisar algumas das principais questões que hoje permeiam o debate relativo ao uso das representações imagéticas, sobretudo da fotografia, na História da Arte, na História da Fotografia e na Historia Social da Cultura, o artigo também identifica e discute os desafios enfrentados pelo profissional da História strictu senso na análise da composição fotográfica, cada vez mais utilizada nas pesquisas históricas. Abstract The present article presents the photography as a starting point to reflect upon the possible dialogs between two specific fields of knowledge: the Social History of Culture and Art History. Besides analyzing some of the key issues that permeate the debate regarding the use of imagetic representations, mainly photography, in the Art History, in the History of Photography and in the Social History of Culture, the article also identifies and discusses the challenges faced by the professional in strictu senso History when analyzing the photographic composition, which is used more and more in the historical research. Palavras-chave: Fotografia. História da cultura. História da arte. Key words: Photography. History of culture. History of arts.


Art Journal ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milton W. Brown

Art Journal ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
William Hauptman ◽  
Volker Kahmen

2021 ◽  
pp. 095269512110037
Author(s):  
Jim Berryman

First published in 1948, Frederick Antal’s Florentine Painting and Its Social Background was an important milestone in anglophone art history. Based on European examples, including Max Dvořák, it sought to understand art history’s relationship to social and intellectual history. When Antal, a Hungarian émigré, arrived in Britain in 1933, he encountered an inward-looking discipline preoccupied with formalism and connoisseurship; or, as he phrased it, art historians of ‘the older persuasion’ ignorant of ‘the fruitful achievements of modern historical research’. Despite its considerable scholarship and erudition, Antal’s book was not warmly received, largely because he had used historical materialism to understand the production of art and the development of styles. Antal’s class-based account of the social position of the artist and the role of the patron in determining the emergence of early Renaissance styles was especially controversial. However, although Marxist analysis was used to challenge the assumptions of Anglo art history, it was not Antal’s intention to weaken art history’s disciplinary autonomy. With historical materialism, he sought to place art history on a firmer historical footing. Most importantly, this approach was compatible with the discipline’s Central European tradition, where art-historical scholarship was framed by questions of method and based on broad historical research. Without defending its more deterministic features, this article supports a re-evaluation of Antal’s book, as an important forerunner of interdisciplinary art scholarship. It considers why Antal’s legacy has not endured, despite the ‘social history of art’ enjoying widespread acceptance in English-speaking art history in later decades.


Art Journal ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-98
Author(s):  
William Hauptman

2019 ◽  
pp. 123-138
Author(s):  
Andreas Huth ◽  
Katharine Stahlbuhk

Art historical research needs to consider the materiality of artefacts, but the character of the material and the state of preservation of any object change over time. Today’s restoration and conservation sciences provide the basis for present research in the field of history of art and architecture. Following this premises and with some examples from current research projects our contribution tries to show how much the contemporary academic Art History can benefit from the material and technical knowledge of conservators.


Art Journal ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milton W. Brown

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 171
Author(s):  
Farid Abdullah

<strong>Abstract</strong><br />This is article about a book of Art history. The book aims have been exploratory rather than critical. The authors, Hugh Honour and John Fleming (1984),  referred exposition to interpretation and evaluation, so far as they are separable. The appeal of some works of art in this book is never purely visual, it is<br />just simply to delight our eyes. It is heavy burden to bear in mind that these conceptions are peculiar to the West perspective. It try to vast a large horizon in both time and space, attention on historically prominent periods and areas,<br />which are also those of most basic interest. Chapters are arranged chronogically, across a wide geographical panorama in order to allow crucial events in world history of humankind. This article also focus to history of photography, that was closely allied with both painting and print making, since of its invention in the 1830s. At last, history of art inevitably reflect the feelings and minds of their authors, who have been almost as diverse as the artists about whom they write, as diverse and many-sided as the works of art themselves.<br /><br /><br /><strong>Abstrak</strong><br />Tulisan ini adalah bedah buku tentang sejarah seni. Tujuan buku adalah melakukan penjelajahan daripada bacaan kritis. Penyusunnya, Hugh Honour dan John Fleming, memilih penjelasan terperinci dan sarat penilaian, yang sesungguhnya keduanya dapat terpisah. Karya-karya seni yang ditampilkan pada buku penuh visual, bermaksud untuk menyenangkan amatan pembaca. Beban besar dipikul buku ini, terkait<br />sudut pandang Barat yang rumit. Cakrawala luas ruang dan waktu dibentangkan luas pada buku ini. Penyusunan bab dibuat secara kronologis, merentang panorama geografis teramat lebar dalam rangka menjelaskan peristiwa-peristiwa penting sejarah umat manusia. Tulisan ini juga memusatkan diri pada sejarah fotografi, yang memiliki hubungan erat dengan seni lukis dan cetak mencetak, sejak temuan pada tahun 1830. Pada akhirnya, sejarah adalah cermin dari perasaan dan pikiran penulisnya, yang selalu berbeda-beda seperti halnya seniman yang mereka tulis. Berbeda-beda dan memiliki berbagai sudut pandang seperti halnya karya seni.<br /><br /><br />*) Staf Pengajar Fakultas Pendidikan Seni dan Desain, Universitas Pendidikan


Author(s):  
Tatyana Nikolaeva ◽  
Lina Gotovtseva

В статье представлена попытка описать историю бытования архаичного вида старинной якутской шубы с точки зрения интерпретации ее функциональной предназначенности и синкретической социальной стратификации. Особую значимость приобретает знаковая функция изображенной на спинке данной шубы вставки в виде раскрытых крыльев птицы, что послужило также мотивационным признаком наименования данного вида верхней одежды как «хотойдоох сон» (шуба с орлом). Реконструкция ее «биографии» базируется на данных ранних и поздних источников и позволяет высказать предположение о существовании такой шубы примерно в конце XVII – в начале XVIII в., выдвигается гипотеза о южном происхождении и обозначены факторы, обусловившие тенденцию постепенной ее модификации в северных условиях. Реализация поставленной цели требует применения комплексного подхода с привлечением данных этнографии, искусствоведения, культурологии, технологии и конструирования одежды, лингвистики, для чего авторами обобщены доступные материалы, посвященные рассмотрению традиционной одежды якутов, в составе которой упоминается и данная шуба. Проанализировав ряд работ по данной тематике можно сделать предварительный вывод о том, что точка зрения авторов публикаций относительно символьной маркировки орнитоморфного изображения строится на мнении о наделенности изображенной на спинке нарядной шубы птицы признаком тотема как родоначальника социальной группы кангаласцев. Однако имеются работы и отдельных авторов, мнения которых можно свести не к отрицанию вышесказанного; они не ставят перед собой задачу толкования потаенного смысла изображенной на спинке шубы вставки, они рассматривают ее, в первую очередь, с точки зрения утилитарной функциональной предназначенности. Внимание авторов данной статьи акцентировано на попытке прочтения информации, заложенной как в наименовании шубы, так и расшифровки условного знака в виде раскрытых крыльев птицы на ее спинке. По мнению авторов, история «хотойдоох сон» таит в себе немало ценного и интересного для тех, кто интересуется историей якутов в целом.The article attempts to describe the history of an archaic look of an old Yakut fur coat in terms of its functional purpose and syncretic social stratification. The bird wings depicted on the back of the fur coat are of particular importance that also serves as a justification for naming this type of outerwear as “hotodooh son” (a fur coat with an eagle). The retrospective is based on data from early and late sources and allows us to express an assumption about the appearance of such a fur coat approximately at the end of the 17th century – the beginning of the 18thcentury. There is a hypothesis about its southern origin, so that we indicate the factors that determined the tendency of its gradual modification in northern conditions. Realization of the task requires the use of an integrated approach involving data from ethnography, art history, cultural studies, technology, and design of clothing, linguistics, for which the authors summarized the available resources studying traditional Yakut clothing, which also includes this coat. After analyzing a number of works on this topic, a preliminary conclusion can be made: the authors of publications believe that the symbolic marking of an ornithomorphic image on a fur coat is a sign of the totem as the ancestor of the social group of kangalans. However, there are some articles that do not set the task of interpreting the hidden meaning depicted on the back of a fur coat - they consider it, first of all, from utilitarian functional purpose. The attention of the authors of this article is focused on an attempt to read the information incorporated both in the name of the fur coat and the symbol in the wings. According to the authors, the story of “hotodooh son” is fraught with many valuable facts for those who are interested in the history of the Yakut people as a whole.


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