The Taste of Angels: A History of Art Collecting from Rameses to Napoleon

1951 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 274
Author(s):  
Richard H. Howland ◽  
Francis Henry Taylor
Author(s):  
Aurora Egido

Se trata de componer un discurso poético partiendo de las palabras del propio autor. Pero, en este caso, el contrafactor no vuelve ni a lo divino, ni a lo humano la obra de Jaime Siles, sino que trata de componer una semblanza aproximada a partir de algunos de sus textos. Ya Marino habló de la licitud de robare, con tal de que lo sustraido se engastara de manera diferente para cobrar un nuevo significado. La operación es tan arriesgada como quien rompe un vitral de colores para componer otro distinto con los cristales rotos. Tal efecto de violencia se inserta en los parámetros de una era en la que triunfan lo fragmentario y la composición de imágenes heterogéneas (por no hablar de montaje literario, ya se trate de Walter Benjamin o de Benjamin Fondane). Si Aby Warburg (Atlas Menmosyne, 1924 y 1929) trató de transformar la historia del arte reuniendo las imágenes en paneles móviles, que se podían montar y desmontar a conveniencia, ¿por qué no hacerlo con un autor que tanto sabe del Barroco, de las vanguardias y de la posmodernidad? Se trata de un experimento de manipulación no engañosa, sin más ambición que la de reordenar las palabras y las cosas en el espacio de la lectura, donde estas adquieran siempre una dimensión personal y dificilmente transferible.  The question is to compose a poetic discourse from the words of the author himself. But, in this case, the contrafactor doesn’t change the work of Jaime Siles nor “a lo divino”, nor “a lo humano”, but tries to compose an approximate semblance from some of his texts. Marino talked about the legality of robare, as long as it is crimped differently to take on a new meaning. The operation is as risky as one who breaks a glass window to compose a different one with the broken glasses. Such an effect of violence is inserted in the parameters of an era in which succeed the fragmentary and the composition of heterogeneous images (not to mention the literary montage of Walter Benjamin or Benjamin Fondane). If Aby Warburg (Atlas Menmosyne, 1924 and 1929) attempted to transform the history of art collecting images on removable panels that could be assembled and disassembled for convenience, why not do it with an author who knows both the Baroque, the avant-garde and postmodernism? This is a not misleading manipulation experiment, with no other ambition than to rearrange the words and things in the space of reading, where they always acquire a personal and hardly transferable dimension.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (43) ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Shpytkovska

The scientific article is dedicated to the study of the origins and features of the art collecting at the territory of modern Ukraine. Socio-cultural, geo-political and historical preconditions of the XVII–XVIII centuries became subject for consideration while making conclusions as to why and when art collecting became widespread among the ruling elites and noble families of the region.The article examines the history of such collections, their main characteristics and components at the time when Ukraine was divided into Left-bank and Right-bank.The research identifies main types of artistic practices widespread at that time in Ukraine, which served as the source of collectibles for private and primary institutional collections. The article considers differences of art collecting phenomenon caused by geographical context (Right-bank, Left-bank Ukraine) and by changes in political and religious factors, all having impact on the behaviour and preferences of collectors. The research covers names of well-known art collectors and demonstrates examples of collections, which laid the foundation for the transformation of collecting from the individual accumulation and preservation of cultural values to the formation of museum-level collections of national and worldwide importance.Keywords: collecting, art collecting, collectors, the phenomenon of art collecting, the history of art collecting.


2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 252-267
Author(s):  
Kuniichi Uno

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).


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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