For the Love of Art: Vermeer and the Poetics of the Gift

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Zell
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Art Theory ◽  
Symbolic Space ◽  
Dutch Art ◽  
The Gift ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
As If

This chapter explores Vermeer’s art in relation to the ethics and aesthetics of the gift. The gift culture of Dutch burgher society together with the conceptual framework of the gift paradigm cast new light on Vermeer’s exceptionalism. Vermeer’s depictions of beautiful women and refined courtship encourage the art lover to experience his paintings as if in love with their seductive beauty, figuring the ideal relationship between beholder and artwork, and painter and painting, in contemporary Dutch art theory. As objects of desire of the viewer and Vermeer himself, his paintings thematize art’s inspiration in love, not the desire for fame or profit, laying claim to a gift-like status and carving out a symbolic space exempt from ordinary measures of value.

Rembrandt, Vermeer, and the Gift in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Zell
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Gift Exchange ◽  
Gift Giving ◽  
Dutch Art ◽  
Dutch Golden Age ◽  
Symbolic Economy ◽  
The Gift ◽  
New Perspective

This book offers a new perspective on the art of the Dutch Golden Age by exploring the interaction between the gift's symbolic economy of reciprocity and obligation and the artistic culture of early modern Holland. Gifts of art were pervasive in seventeenth-century Europe and many Dutch artists, like their counterparts elsewhere, embraced gift giving to cultivate relations with patrons, art lovers, and other members of their social networks. Rembrandt also created distinctive works to function within a context of gift exchange, and both Rembrandt and Vermeer engaged the ethics of the gift to identify their creative labor as motivated by what contemporaries called a love of art

Jan van Gool als kunstcriticus

1983 ◽  
Vol 97 (4) ◽  
pp. 266-283
Author(s):  
Lyckle De Vries
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Reliable Information ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Art Theory ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Dutch Art ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
History Of ◽  
Expression Of Emotions

AbstractIn 1750 and 1751 Jan van Gool published two volumes of artists' biographies entitled De Nieuwe Schouburg (Note 2). This sequel to Houbraken's Groote Schouburgh (.Note I) is an important source for Dutch art history of the period around 1700. The author's opinions are not strictly governed by the rules of art theory, nor is he a convinced Classicist. His main aim is to give complete and reliable information on the lives and works of artists. In so doing he cannot refrain from giving personal opinions. These characterize him as a competent art critic, who seems to have had an eye for style and quality. He despises work by contemporaries who still adhere to the Leiden tradition of fijnschilderen (small-scale, highly-finished painting). In his view the composition of a painting is of prime importance in assessing its quality, for it is mostly there that an artist's inventiveness, or lack of it, is revealed. Another aspect of great importance is the expression of emotions in painted figures through their glances, gestures and attitudes. Van Gool praises not only history painters who prove to have abilities in this field, but also painters of genre scenes and portraits. He pays far more attention to a painter's brushwork than his style of drawing, his predilection being for masters with a 'courageous' brush. Relatively little attention is given to colour and light and to the plasticity of painted figures. Van Gool's ideals seem to be summed up in the word natural. The essential qualities of the subjects painted must be made visible in the work of art. A painstaking realism in the Leiden tradition would endanger this ideal as much as a severe Classicism. The observation of reality should not be carried so far that details become more important than totalities, but on the other hand the overall form should not be idealized to such an extent that reality is forgotten.

scholarly journals Structural systematization - the essential stage in building consistent classification of libraries

2018 ◽  
pp. 20-35
Author(s):  
Elena Poltavskaya
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Intermediate Stage ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Conceptual Structure ◽  
Natural Classification ◽  
Social Mission ◽  
Conceptual Schemes ◽  
The Ideal

The need for structural systematization to reveal and compare the conceptual framework for library forms separated into the theoretical type reflected in the ideal construct of “the Stolyarov’s library” is substantiated. The library form structure is determined in a vicarious manner through conceptual schemes. The concepts that correspond to appropriate library forms are represented as logical systems (as if the library is being established in reality) and through the schemes. The groups of the library type four elements reflect the conceptual schemes: libraries as a social institution (corresponds to public libraries) and personal libraries (individually and family used libraries). Using conceptual schemes for systematization enables to divide all the libraries, according to their structure, into two groups that differ significantly in their social mission (serving communities, or the society; and serving individuals, or individual families). Differentiating existent libraries by their conceptual structure would further enable to design a general and consistent hierarchical library classification. Structural systematization is the essential intermediate stage when developing natural classification.

scholarly journals A Conceptual Model of Motivational Factors of Knowledge Transfer for Hospitals

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 2313-2319
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Motivational Factors ◽  
Knowledge Sources ◽  
Educational Organization ◽  
The Ideal

Knowledge transfer is vital for the successful organization. Majority of previous studies focused on business and educational organization. Few in the field dealt with knowledge transfer in hospitals. This study aims to develop a conceptual model for knowledge transfer in hospitals. Based on the literature review, this study proposes a conceptual framework for knowledge transfer motivation in hospitals based on three motivational aspects; (i) the extrinsic motivational factors such as the promotions and appraisals, (ii) the intrinsic motivational factors such as the altruism, and absorptive capacity, and (iii) the ideal distribution of extrinsic and intrinsic based on the quality and quantity of knowledge transfer that conducted by the knowledge sources and recipients. The conceptual model was tested using a data collected for a pilot study.

scholarly journals Disciplinary crisis in valorisation of art

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-152
Author(s):  
Nataša Lah
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Dynamic System ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Art History ◽  
Art Theory ◽  
Short Account ◽  
Actual Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
As If

Generally speaking, values among objects - as well as among art valuables - are defined based on the especially significant properties and qualificatives differentiating i.e. privileging that artwork within a family of congenial phenomena/objects; first in the time of its origination and then in present time. The history of aesthetics and that of cultures both mirror the unstable status of the qualificatives of art value i.e. conditions for the historical transformations of valorisation. Objects or phenomena which pretended to be what we today call the valuable artworks, have acquired the required qualification within a hierarchised framework of their own time's cultural demand1 . A dynamic system of changes in equalising artwork's value with its social status brought about the disciplinary crisis of art theory, which failed to adapt axiologically to the new receptions of art and the standards of actual time.2 I'll derive a short account of crisis from the fundamental questions concerning the meaning of beauty, value and valorisation within culture and art, through history. The crisis arises during the period from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, when art history became disciplinary articulated, incorporating the valorisation mechanisms of that time into its own methodological matrix, as if it was supratemporal and ahistorical.

scholarly journals The Manifestation of Classism in the Astro Boy Animation

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-92
Author(s):  
Yessi Ratna Sari ◽  
Genta Iverstika Gempita
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
New World ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
The World ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Human Kind ◽  
Descriptive Method ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
Perfect World

Utopia is an appropriate word to describe about the ideal, worthy, and perfect life depicted in a city called Metro City in the Astro Boy animation. This study examines the animation movie Astro Boy and how the world that is being told in the works could be defined as Utopian world like it is being described through the movie. The purpose of this study is to proof whether the setting successfully conveyed the Utopian world or whether it still has some deficiency as Utopian is known as impossibly perfect world to be created. The corpus of this study is the movie of Astro Boy focuses on the setting and relationship between human kind and robots. This research uses a qualitative descriptive method which describes social phenomena by conducting in-depth understanding and analysis. The aims of this research is to analyze more deeply the picture contained in the animation, which shows how humans and robots are able to create a new world also coexist. Moreover, the conceptual framework that will be use is the theory of Capitalism and Classism in order to examine the setting of Utopian world.

Equality and Egalitarianism: Framing the Contemporary Debate

1994 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-26
Author(s):  
William B. Griffith
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Moral Reasons ◽  
Contemporary Debate ◽  
Significant Harm ◽  
Historical Tradition ◽  
The Ideal

For really I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live, as the greatest he....Col. Rainborough, in the Putney Debates (1647)The ideal of equality is one of the great themes in the culture of American public life…from the earliest colonial beginnings, equality has been a rallying cry, a promise, an article of national faith.K. Karst(1989)…[T]he error of believing that there are powerful moral reasons for caring about equality is far from innocuous. In fact this belief tends to do significant harm.H.Frankfurt (1987)Is equality the name of one coherent program or is it the name of a system of mutually antagonistic claims upon society and government?D. Raeetal. (1981)The purpose of this paper is to attempt to lay out a framework, both analytical and historical, in terms of which deeply conflicting and surprisingly complicated claims about equality and egalitarianism may be discussed. My aim is to help to make more intelligible what is at issue in contemporary disputes, and hence what kinds of arguments and evidence bear on and might illuminate these competing claims. I then exploit this conceptual framework to sketch a way of organizing some of the voluminous literature in the on-going debate about equality, that is, to bring into focus the dimension(s) in which the issues are being joined, and from which historical tradition an argument emerges, in hopes of clarifying these debates.

Rembrandt’s Art as Gift

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Zell
Keyword(s):  
Gift Exchange ◽  
Art World ◽  
Gift Giving ◽  
Unique Position ◽  
Dutch Art ◽  
Gift Economy ◽  
The Gift

This chapter examines Rembrandt’s embrace of gift exchange over his career and analyzes the works he created to function as gifts among favored patrons, collectors, and intimates. Rembrandt’s gifts to important patrons and other figures in the 1630s largely conform to the conventions and courtesies expected of gift transactions. From the late 1640s through the 1660s, as Rembrandt’s primary supporters shifted to liefhebbers, gentlemen-dealers, and cultured members of the burgher class, however, he intensified his engagement and became more experimental with gift giving. Through highly distinctive prints designed to circulate as gifts, Rembrandt enlisted the gift economy to nurture ties with his inner sanctum, harnessing the ethics of gift giving to cultivate a unique position in the Dutch art world.

Rembrandt, Vermeer, and the Gift in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Zell
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Gift Giving ◽  
Art Making ◽  
Dutch Art ◽  
Dutch Golden Age ◽  
Symbolic Economy ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Economic Rhetoric ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Perspective

This book offers a new perspective on the art of the Dutch Golden Age by exploring the interaction between the gift's symbolic economy of reciprocity and obligation and the artistic culture of early modern Holland. Gifts of art were pervasive in seventeenth-century Europe and many Dutch artists, like their counterparts elsewhere, embraced gift giving to cultivate relations with patrons, art lovers, and other members of their social networks. Rembrandt also created distinctive works to function within a context of gift exchange, and both Rembrandt and Vermeer engaged the ethics of the gift to identify their creative labor as motivated by what contemporaries called a "love of art," not materialistic gain. In the merchant republic's vibrant market for art, networks of gift relations and the anti-economic rhetoric of the gift mingled with the growing dimension of commerce, revealing a unique chapter in the interconnected history of gift giving and art making.

Eat Y’Self Fitter

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina van Dyke
Keyword(s):  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Perfect Health ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Dietary Choices ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Human Finitude ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
As If

Attitudes toward healthy eating and dietary choices are increasingly important components of how people conceive of (and judge) both themselves and others. This chapter examines orthorexia—a condition in which the subject becomes obsessed with identifying and maintaining the ideal diet, rigidly avoiding foods perceived as unhealthy or harmful—and it argues that the condition represents an extreme manifestation of sociocultural norms that people are all being pushed toward. These norms are highly gendered, however, and women and men are thus sometimes portrayed as if they were striving toward radically different goals in the elusive quest for perfect health. Yet what makes orthorexia destructive to both men and women is ultimately a common urge to transcend rather than to embrace the realities of embodiment. In short, orthorexia is best understood as a manifestation of age-old anxieties about human finitude and mortality—anxieties that current dominant sociocultural forces prime people to experience and express in unhealthy attitudes toward healthy eating.

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