scholarly journals Relationel komparatisme

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (127) ◽  
pp. 29-50
Author(s):  
Anne Ring Petersen ◽  
Karen-Margrethe Simonsen
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Art History ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Olaudah Equiano ◽  
National Cultures ◽  
History Of ◽  
Globalized World

This article addresses a question crucial to contemporary cultural analysis: the question of how to compare and what to compare in a globalized world. Modern comparativism has effectively undermined the very foundation of historical comparativism, i.e. the idea of confined and segregated (national) cultures and Eurocentric perspectives and perceptions of what is historically significant, and what is not. The article opens with a discussion of some important critical revisions of comparative methodologies in the fields of comparative literature and art history, and then moves on to call for a relational comparativism that is attentive to three aspects: context, dynamics/agency and circulation. To indicate what the implications of a relational comparativism might be, we conclude with two case studies of the autobiography The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789) and the commemorative sculpture I Am Queen Mary (2018) by artists Jeannette Ehlers and La Vaughn Belle. Both works are related to the history of slavery; a history that in significant ways points to the need for rethinking comparativism.

scholarly journals Is Art History of China Useless in a Pandemic?

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng He Schöneweiß
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Art History ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Chinese Art ◽  
Life Crisis ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The Core ◽  
Chinese Studies ◽  
Art Historians ◽  
History Of

The study of Chinese art has long been a specialised field bridging the disciplines of art history and Chinese studies. This essay challenges, as always in a real-life crisis, the usefulness of art history of China in the current Covid-19 pandemic. The agency of art historians is put under the historiographical grill. Through two brief case studies, the essay argues that art historians, though as mortal and fragile, are actually professionally equipped to strike the core consequences of the pandemic in its social, political, and cultural aspects.

scholarly journals The dynasty of iconographers Rogachevsky-Nikita in the context of the history of the Old Believer Romanian rural localities Zhurilovka and Sarikei

2020 ◽  
pp. 116-123
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Boitсova
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Personal Contact ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Local Traditions ◽  
Artistic Heritage ◽  
Rural Locality

This article examines the iconographic heritage of the Old Believer Lipovan Rogachevsky-Nikita family in the context of history of Romanian rural localities. Based on the expedition material, analysis is conducted on the peculiarities of folk icon and local traditions that established in the Old Believer center of Romania. The reviewed documentary sourced were acquired in the course of expeditions and further personal contact with the family. The collected material contains history of the family of iconographers, their lifestyle and customs, conditions for fulfilling the orders that are closely related to the history of this rural locality and way of life of the Nekrasov Cossacks. The research is of applied nature in the area of art history, as well as of interdisciplinary in nature. The article employs the methods of stylistic and historical-cultural analysis; biographical method for reconstruction of biography of the family members and their artistic heritage. New records on the dynasty of Romanian iconographers are introduced, which expands  the information on the Lipovan icon and indicate regional peculiarities of its creation. The author also introduces the new names and monuments of iconography into the scientific discourse that allows clarifying the attribution. The artistic heritage of iconographers of the late XIX – early XX centuries is also introduced into the scientific discourse: Rogachevsky-Nikita; in the XX century – Egor Nikitovich Nikita and Roman Egorovich Nikita.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Allison Margaret Bigelow
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Art History ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Colonial Latin America ◽  
New Approach ◽  
History Of ◽  
P Mining

Mining in colonial Latin America and the early modern Iberian empire has been studied from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including archaeology and archaeometallurgy; philosophy; art history, visual studies, and material cultural analysis; literary studies; social, labor, legal, and economic histories; and the history of science. This book adopts a language-centered approach that incorporates methods of all of these fields, especially discursive, visual, and historical analysis. The introduction reviews current scholarship in the study of mining and argues for the importance of a new approach to the history of metals – one that centers the knowledges of Indigenous, African, and South Asian miners, refiners, and mineralogists.

Trends in Contemporary Research on Shamanism

Numen ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. DuBois
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Medical Anthropology ◽  
Art History ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
History Of Anthropology ◽  
Cognitive Sciences ◽  
Contemporary Research ◽  
Strong Interest ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cognitive Study

Recent research on the topic of shamanism is reviewed and discussed. Included are works appearing since the early 1990s in the fields of anthropology, religious studies, archaeology, cognitive sciences, ethnomusicology, medical anthropology, art history, and ethnobotany. The survey demonstrates a continued strong interest in specific ethnographic case studies focusing on communities which make use of shamanic practices. Shamanic traditions are increasingly studied within their historical and political contexts, with strong attention to issues of research ideology. New trends in the study of cultural revitalization, neoshamanism, archaeology, gender, the history of anthropology, and the cognitive study of religion are highlighted.

scholarly journals Kyiv Metropolitans were in the Artistic Process of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra at the End of the 18th – the Early 20th Centuries

2021 ◽  
pp. 128-132
Author(s):  
Maryna Bardik
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Mural Painting ◽  
Artistic Process ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Mural Paintings ◽  
History Of ◽  
Preparatory Stage ◽  
Information Basis ◽  
Artistic Tradition

The purpose of the article is to discover the mechanism of Kyiv Metropolitans influence processes in the monumental painting of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. The research methodology is based on complex using historical and cultural analysis, art study analysis, hermeneutical and biographical methods. Scientific novelty. Based on archival materials the author determines the specific means of Kyiv Metropolitans influence the evolution and preservation of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra’s sacral painting in 1786–1917. This influence is investigated in the theoretical and practical aspects. The scheme of the Metropolitans influences the mural painting processes is revealed: the Spiritual Council (preparatory stage) – Metropolitan (decision) – the head of the painting workshop (responsible for fulfillment) − artists (fulfillment). The Metropolitans leading role in forming the painting programs of temples and preserving the Lavra’s artistic tradition has been proved. Conclusions. In theoretical works, reports to the Holy Synod the Metropolitans gave thoughts and facts that entered the art history of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. They directly influenced the artistic process: controlled and directed the processes of evolution and preservation of mural painting, financial and personnel issues. Their influence was implemented in visas and codicils (visas were an information basis for painting dating). Their orders were performed by the head of Lavra’s painting workshop (icon-painting workshop). Metropolitans took care of preserving Lavra’s artistic traditions and artistic features of painting compositions. Heads of the painting workshop ensured the continuity in mural paintings, they followed the imitation principle. The interpretation of the artistic tradition was reflected in new mural paintings. Metropolitans determined the painting programs of Lavra’s churches.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James McElvenny
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

This chapter sets the scene for the case studies that follow in the rest of the book by characterising the ‘age of modernism’ and identifying problems relating to language and meaning that arose in this context. Emphasis is laid on the social and political issues that dominated the era, in particular the rapid developments in technology, which inspired both hope and fear, and the international political tensions that led to the two World Wars. The chapter also sketches the approach to historiography taken in the book, interdisciplinary history of ideas.

Entangled Trees and Arboreal Networks of Sensitive Environments

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-126
Author(s):  
Birgit Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Tropical Trees ◽  
Atmospheric Change ◽  
Media Study ◽  
Gutta Percha ◽  
History Of ◽  
Study Perspective ◽  
Nature Perception ◽  
Technological Perspective ◽  
Tall Tower

The article discusses how current mediated conditions change nature perception from a media study perspective. The article is based on different case studies such as the current sensation of atmospheric change through sensible media attached to trees which get published via Twitter, the meteorologist Amazonian Tall Tower Observatory and the use of gutta percha derived from tropical trees for the production of cables in the history of telegraphy. For analysing the examples, the perspective of »media as environments« is flipped to »environments as media«, because this focus doesn’t approach media from a networked and technological perspective primarily but makes productive the elemental character of basic »media« like air, earth and water

Monastery, Monument, Museum

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurizio Peleggi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Art History ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Eleventh Century ◽  
Devotional Art ◽  
Cultural Legacy ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
Cultural Sites ◽  
History Of ◽  
Intellectual Knowledge

Monastery, Monument, Museum examines cultural sites, artifacts, and institutions of Thailand as both products and vehicles of cultural memory. From rock caves to reliquaries, from cultic images to temple murals, from museums and modern monuments to contemporary artworks, cultural sites and artifacts are considered in relation to the transmission of religious beliefs and political ideologies, as well as manual and intellectual knowledge, throughout thelongue durée of Thailand’s cultural history. Sequenced by and large chronologically along a period of time spanning the eleventh century through to the start of the twenty-first, the eight chapters in this book are grouped into three sections that surface distinct themes and analytical concerns: devotional art in Part I, museology and art history in Part II, and political art in Part III. The chapters can even be read as self-contained essays, each supplied with extensive bibliographic references.By examining the interplay between cultural sites and artifacts, their popular and scholarly appreciation, and the institutional configuration of a cultural legacy, Monastery, Monument, Museum makes a contribution to the literature on memory studies. A second area of scholarship this book engages is the art history of Thailand by shifting focus from the chronological and stylistic analysis of artifacts to their social life—and afterlife. Monastery, Monument, Museum brings together in one volume a millennium of art and cultural history of Thailand. Its novel analysis and thought-provoking re-interpretation of a variety of artifacts and source materials will be of interest to both the specialist and the general reader.

Introduction: The Translation History of Virgil

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanna Braund ◽  
Zara Martirosova Torlone
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Large Collection ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual

The introduction describes the broad landscape of translation of Virgil from both the theoretical and the practical perspectives. It then explains the genesis of the volume and indicates how the individual chapters, each one of which is summarized, fit into the complex tapestry of Virgilian translation activity through the centuries and across the world. The volume editors indicate points of connection between the chapters in order to render the whole greater than the sum of its parts. Braund and Torlone emphasize that a project such as this could look like a (rather large) collection of case studies; they therefore consider it important to extrapolate larger phenomena from the specifics presented here

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