Space–Object–Landscape

2021 ◽  
pp. 133-184
Author(s):  
Jaś Elsner
Keyword(s):  
Wall Paintings ◽  
Space Object ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Earth Art ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of

This chapter interrogates a number of normative assumptions about “landscape” as an art-historical category current in the discipline. It proceeds by means of some very diverse thought-objects significantly separated by time and space—Chinese pagoda paintings found in the Dunhuang caves that are simultaneously concrete poems, British stone circles such as Stonehenge and standing crosses including that at Bewcastle, Roman wall paintings from Pompeii—because the issues are not specifically historical or historicist but rather more broadly conceptual and span the archaeological history of art from the Neolithic to modernity, not least interrogating certain practices in contemporary earth art. The intent is to interrogate what is meant by ‘landscape’ when treated as an art-historical category.

scholarly journals MENJADI BIJAK MELALUI SEJARAH

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 171
Author(s):  
Farid Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
World History ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
History Of Photography ◽  
The West ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
Heavy Burden

<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

scholarly journals A Session of Disciplinary ‘Fusion’ Exploring the Interaction of Time and Space in Modern Art

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stoyan V. Sgourev
Keyword(s):  
Historical Data ◽  
Computer Algorithms ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
Analyse Data ◽  
Geographical Space

Often met with suspicion, practices of ‘fusion’ between neighbouring disciplines simultaneously build on and reinforce complementarities between them. I argue that the key advantage of identifying and exploring such complementarities is the opportunity for improved understanding of the interaction of time and space in the history of art – i.e. how temporal tendencies unfold across geographical space. New digital sources of information on artistic careers, museum and personal collections or important sales make it possible to chart the mobility of people, artworks and concepts across time and space. A combination of computer algorithms, sociological methods and historical data provide opportunities to address substantive questions in the history of art, to identify patterns and resolve controversies. As an example of synergies in data collection and analysis between sociological and historical research, I analyse data on the students of Antoine Bourdelle. Results expose the interaction between centrality and two types of marginality, based on gender and the country of origin, and that between mobility of artists and the fragmentation of the field, as key factors in the acceleration of innovation at that time.

Fictive Mode, ‘Journey to the West’, and Transformation of Space: ‘Ali Mubarak’s Discourses of Modernization

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-358
Author(s):  
WEN-CHIN OUYANG
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Theoretical Principle ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The West ◽  
Arab Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Journey To The West

I begin my exploration of ‘Ali Mubarak (1823/4–1893) and the discourses on modernization ‘performed’ in his only attempt at fiction, ‘Alam al-Din (The Sign of Religion, 1882), with a quote from Guy Davenport because it elegantly sums up a key theoretical principle underpinning any discussion of cultural transformation and, more particularly, of modernization. Locating ‘Ali Mubarak and his only fictional work at the juncture of the transformation from the ‘traditional’ to the ‘modern’ in the recent history of Arab culture and of Arabic narrative, I find Davenport's pronouncement tantalizingly appropriate. He not only places the stakes of history and geography in one another, but simultaneously opens up the imagination to the combined forces of time and space that stand behind these two distinct yet related disciplines.

War of Perception, Perception of Time

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 252-267
Author(s):  
Kuniichi Uno
Keyword(s):  
Michel Tournier ◽  
Crucial Question ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Desert Island ◽  
Perception Of Time

For Gilles Deleuze's two essays ‘Causes and Reasons of Desert Islands’ and ‘Michel Tournier and the World Without Others’, the crucial question is what the perception is, what its fundamental conditions are. A desert island can be a place to experiment on this question. The types of perception are described in many critical works about the history of art and aesthetical reflections by artists. So I will try to retrace some types of perception especially linked to the ‘haptic’, the importance of which was rediscovered by Deleuze. The ‘haptic’ proposes a type of perception not linked to space, but to time in its aspects of genesis. And something incorporeal has to intervene in a very original stage of perception and of perception of time. Thus we will be able to capture some links between the fundamental aspects of perception and time in its ‘out of joint’ aspects (Aion).

Conditions of Visibility

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
Shared Objects ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Prejudice ◽  
Historical Past

We often assume that works of visual art are meant to be seen. Yet that assumption may be a modern prejudice. The ancient world - from China to Greece, Rome to Mexico - provides many examples of statues, paintings, and other images that were not intended to be visible. Instead of being displayed, they were hidden, buried, or otherwise obscured. In this third volume in the Visual Conversations in Art & Archaeology series, leading scholars working at the intersection of archaeology and the history of art address the fundamental question of art's visibility. What conditions must be met, what has to be in place, for a work of art to be seen at all? The answer is both historical and methodological; it concerns ancient societies and modern disciplines, and encompasses material circumstances, perceptual capacities, technologies of visualization, protocols of classification, and a great deal more. The emerging field of archaeological art history is uniquely suited to address such questions. Intrinsically comparative, this approach cuts across traditional ethnic, religious, and chronological categories to confront the academic present with the historical past. The goal is to produce a new art history that is at once cosmopolitan in method and global in scope, and in doing so establish new ways of seeing - new conditions of visibility - for shared objects of study.

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