Ulrich Middeldorf prior to emigration: The Photothek of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (1928-1935)

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 29-36
Author(s):  
Ute Dercks
Keyword(s):  
Classification System ◽  
Art History ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Research Instrument ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Photo Collection ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

When Ulrich Middeldorf departed Florence in November 1935 to teach art history at the University of Chicago, he left behind at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz the ‘Photo collection – the special pride of our Institute’ in the structure that has characterised it up to the present day. Middeldorf was 25 when he first came to the Institute as a scholar. In the following years he turned the Photothek into a modern research instrument, re-organising its classification system and its card indexes as the main finding aid. His contribution to the growth of the collection was enormous, not only thanks to his own donations, but also through the relationship he fostered with the main patron of the collection, Luigi Vittorio Fossati Bellani.

scholarly journals The Digital Platform of D.I.R.A.A.S. (UNIGE)

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-169
Author(s):  
Martina Massarente
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Central Element ◽  
Digital Art ◽  
Virtual Communication ◽  
Communication Platform ◽  
Digital Platform ◽  
Woman Professor ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

This project studies photography as an instrument for artistic and historical teaching in relation to the didactic traditions of the Humanities at the University of Genoa. This research was initially based on an analysis of the corpus of glass diapositives and phototypes mostly owned by Giusta Nicco Fasola, Genoa’s first art history professor, and currently stored by D.I.R.A.A.S. (Dipartimento di Italianistica, Romanistica, Antichistica, arti e spettacolo). The corpus contextualizes Fasola's scientific and didactic interests in relation to her complex biography as a woman, professor, and political combatant in the Resistance in Fiesole and Florence. The central element of this analysis is the project for a prototype of a digital art history photo library, intended as a place of study and research and as a virtual communication platform. The overall goal of this work is to investigate the relationship between photography, history, and art critique.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Jaś Elsner
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Landscape Painting ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Human Interventions ◽  
The University ◽  
Chinese Landscape Painting

The chapters gathered in this volume are the product of a conversation at the Center for Global Ancient Art in the University of Chicago. They address a theme that has had exceptional trans-cultural traction for well over half a century in art history as a discipline—with long scholarly (“secondary”) and historic (“primary”) literatures as well as deeply established visual genres in both European and Chinese landscape painting. Likewise, landscape is a key issue in all areas of archaeology—from questions about the placement of monuments to the understanding of human interventions in natural topography through such methods as field archaeology....

The Commitment to Form; or, Still Crazy after All These Years

PMLA ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 118 (2) ◽  
pp. 321-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. J. T. Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Measuring Line ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Cultural Forms ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Chicago Press

Having counted the adjectives, and weighed the lines, and measured the rhythms, a Formalist either stops silent with the expression of a man who does not know what to do with himself, or throws out an unexpected generalization which contains five per cent of Formalism and ninety-five per cent of the most uncritical intuition.—Trotsky, Literature and Revolution (ch. 5)Bring out number weight & measure in a year of dearth.—Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (35)Everyone knows that the concept of form has outlived its usefulness in discussions of literature, the arts, and media. The word does not appear in the recent handbooks of critical terms in art history and literary studies issued by the University of Chicago Press (Nelson and Shiff; Lentricchia and McLaughlin), and it appears in Raymond Williams's classic glossary, Keywords, only in its derivative (and mainly pejorative) form as an “-ism,” as in the phrase “mere formalism.” Formalists, as we know, are harmless drudges who spend their days counting syllables, measuring line lengths, and weighing emphases (Trotsky), or they are decadent aesthetes who waste their time celebrating beauty and other ineffable, indefinable qualities of works of art. If form has any afterlife in the study of literature, its role has been completely overtaken by the concept of structure, which rightly emphasizes the artificial, constructed character of cultural forms and defuses the idealist and organicist overtones that surround the concept of form.

scholarly journals “The Initiated”: Aaron Director and the Chicago Monetary Tradition

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
George S. Tavlas
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Economics ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Milton Friedman ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

Aaron Director taught at the University of Chicago from 1930 to 1934 and from 1946 to 1967. Both periods corresponded to crucial stages in the development of Chicago monetary economics under the leaderships of Henry Simons and Milton Friedman, respectively. Any impact that Director may have played in the development of those stages and to the relationship between the views of Simons and Friedman has been frustrated by Director’s lack of publications. I provide evidence, much of it for the first time, showing the important role played by Director in the development of Chicago monetary economics, including his role as a transmitor of Simons’s ideas to Friedman.

A Use of the University of Michigan

2019 ◽  
pp. 164-182
Author(s):  
Ethan Schrum
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Development Economics ◽  
Behavioral Science ◽  
Peace Corps ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
University Administrators ◽  
Economics Department ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

Chapter 5 examines how Samuel P. Hayes, Jr., an early Point Four official who later helped design the Peace Corps, tried to “use” the University of Michigan to establish a program of multidisciplinary organized research on economic development, the Center for Research on Economic Development (CRED). The resistance he encountered from university administrators and economics department colleagues suggests that traditional academic norms did not always yield completely to interdisciplinary organized research. Yet the establishment of CRED, which had parallels at the University of Chicago, Vanderbilt, and Yale, suggests the importance of economic development as a focus for organized research in the instrumental university. This chapter also provides an account of the new subfield of development economics and of the relationship between the economics discipline and the behavioral science paradigm.

scholarly journals Klasyczna lekcja umiarkowania. Allan Bloom o relacji między filozofem a wspólnotą polityczną

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 207-290
Author(s):  
Tomasz Stefanek
Keyword(s):  
Political Community ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
The Political ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Allan Bloom

The author constitutes a reconstruction of Allan Bloom’s position on the relationship between the philosopher and the political community, which is important to philosophical tradition, as is symbolised by Socrates and his dispute with the Athenian polis. Texts authored by Bloom, as well as the Saul Bellow’s novel Ravelstein, provided the basis for the reconstruction. The novel’s protagonist, a professor of philosophy by the name of Abe Ravelstein, was modelled on Allan Bloom, while Chick, the narrator, corresponds to the author himself. Ravelstein is the story of their friendship, which has lasted from Bloom’s return to the University of Chicago in 1978 until his death in 1992. The article brings Bloom’s reflections closer to the Polish philosophical space, where they are, as yet, not widely known.

scholarly journals F.I. Shmit at Leningrad University at the Turn of the 1920s and 1930s

2021 ◽  
Vol 163 (3) ◽  
pp. 67-74
Author(s):  
V.G. Ananiev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
State University ◽  
Russian Art ◽  
Byzantine Art ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Academic Content

This paper discusses an episode from the academic biography of Fyodor Ivanovich Shmit (1877–1937), a prominent Russian art historian and art theorist, museologist. The history of F.I. Shmit’s teaching at Leningrad State University during the 1920s and 1930s was covered. The scholar was an alumnus of the university and renewed the relationship with the alma mater following his return from Ukraine to Leningrad in the mid-1920s. Until 1932, F.I. Shmit taught here various disciplines of art history and theory. Since 1930, he had worked as the head of the Department of General History of Art and taught here such courses as History of Byzantine Art, History of Art in Feudal Europe, History of Ancient Art, History of Western European Art of the Age of Primitive Accumulation of Capital. He actively presented the results of his research in the form of academic reports. The analysis of F.I. Shmit’s curricula shows that, on the one hand, he tried to adapt them to the needs of the changing time, but, on the other one, he tried to preserve the traditional academic content. In many ways, his activities during this period helped to uphold the traditions of the St. Petersburg-Petrograd School of Art History. However, F.I. Shmit was deprived of the opportunity to continue his teaching due to the changes in the structure of higher education, which were typical for that period, as well as because of the growing pressure of the totalitarian state. In 1933, he was arrested, expelled from Leningrad, and murdered.

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