Getty publications jan 2011 (2 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When works of art created for religious purposes outlive their original function, they often take on new meanings as they move from sacred spaces to secular collections. Religious art embodies a complicated amalgam of the aesthetic and the numinous, and the fourteen essays in this volume explore how the admixture changes--often radically--with changes of function, setting, audience, and the passage of time.Focusing on the centuries in which the phenomenon of collecting came powerfully into its own, these essays analyze the radical recontextualization of celebrated paintings by Raphael, Caravaggio, and Rubens; bring to light a lost holy tower from fifteenth-century Bavaria; and offer new insights into the meaning of 'sacred' and 'profane.'Collecting represents the primary mechanism by which a sacred work of art survives when it is alienated from its original context. In the field of art history, the consequences of such collecting--its tendency to reframe an object, metaphorically and physically--have only begun to be investigated. Sacred Possessions charts the contours of a fertile terrain for further inquiry.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Cultural identity is a slippery and elusive concept. When applied to the collective self-consciousness among peoples or nations, it becomes all the more difficult to define or grasp. In recent decades scholars have focused on the 'other'--the alien, the unfamiliar, the different, perceived or conceived as the opposite--to highlight the virtues and advantages of the self. While this influential idea continues to hold sway, the time has come for a more nuanced and complex understanding of how the various societies of the ancient Mediterranean shaped their sense of identity.The twenty-four essays in this volume examine the subject from a variety of angles. They encompass a broad range of cultures--Greek, Persian, Jewish, Phoenician, Egyptian, Roman, Gallic, and German--and an impressive array of topics. The essays attest to a diversity of attitudes toward other peoples that underscore distinctiveness or discover connectiveness or sometimes both. They show, above all, that the twists and turns that accompanied the development of a collective consciousness found no smooth path.…