Joacim Sprung
I'm working as a senior lecturer [Swe.: Lektor] of Art History and Visual Studies, as well as being the coordinator of the International Master-programme in Visual Culture.
My main teaching and research interests are in art historiography, methodology, memory studies, aesthetics and theory of visualities from 1500 to the present.
Currently I'm engaged in a collaborative research project for the exhibition “Myths of Nations. The Clash of Futures. 1914-1945”, organized and curated by Prof. Dr. Monika Flacke at the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin. The project will be finished 2018.
Besides the above project, I research art historiography and aesthetics, especially how art historians have dealt with the birth of art and its conditions of possibility.
Furthermore, I still conduct research (albeit quite slowly) in the following topics :
1) how evolution biology influenced the thinking in art history during 1800/1900,
2) how Art History was popularized as an academic discipline via BBC TV-documentaries during the 1960s,
3) how representations of climate change in fiction contribute to an onto-dramatization of our existence.
4) the Visual Culture of Education.
Furthermore, I wrote my dissertation, "Picture atlas, Visual education and Reproduction. Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne-atlas and the visualization of Art History around 1800/1900", at Copenhagen University, IKK, Division of Art History and Visual Culture.
Address: Division of Art History and Visual Studies
Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
Lund University
Biskopsgatan 7
223 62 Lund
Sweden
My main teaching and research interests are in art historiography, methodology, memory studies, aesthetics and theory of visualities from 1500 to the present.
Currently I'm engaged in a collaborative research project for the exhibition “Myths of Nations. The Clash of Futures. 1914-1945”, organized and curated by Prof. Dr. Monika Flacke at the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin. The project will be finished 2018.
Besides the above project, I research art historiography and aesthetics, especially how art historians have dealt with the birth of art and its conditions of possibility.
Furthermore, I still conduct research (albeit quite slowly) in the following topics :
1) how evolution biology influenced the thinking in art history during 1800/1900,
2) how Art History was popularized as an academic discipline via BBC TV-documentaries during the 1960s,
3) how representations of climate change in fiction contribute to an onto-dramatization of our existence.
4) the Visual Culture of Education.
Furthermore, I wrote my dissertation, "Picture atlas, Visual education and Reproduction. Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne-atlas and the visualization of Art History around 1800/1900", at Copenhagen University, IKK, Division of Art History and Visual Culture.
Address: Division of Art History and Visual Studies
Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
Lund University
Biskopsgatan 7
223 62 Lund
Sweden
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Which historical images and ideologies, which future visions shaped Europe between the world wars? Monika Flacke, long-time head of the art collection at the German Historical Museum, closes her groundbreaking trilogy “Myths of Nations” with the richly illustrated anthology “Clash of Futures”.
Authors from Eastern and Western Europe, Turkey, the USA, and Israel trace the imagery of their nations using paintings, posters, films, monuments, architecture, and everyday objects. They ask how people found a way between pre-war and post-war order, between tradition and modernity, but also show how this search could slide into political extremes, lead to violence, and ultimately to World War II.
When today there is often talk of a crisis in parliamentary democracy, when it has to prove its strength and appeal again, it is all the more necessary to look back 100 years into the era when democracy became a global expectation.
Which historical images and ideologies, which future visions shaped Europe between the world wars? Monika Flacke, long-time head of the art collection at the German Historical Museum, closes her groundbreaking trilogy “Myths of Nations” with the richly illustrated anthology “Clash of Futures”.
Authors from Eastern and Western Europe, Turkey, the USA, and Israel trace the imagery of their nations using paintings, posters, films, monuments, architecture, and everyday objects. They ask how people found a way between pre-war and post-war order, between tradition and modernity, but also show how this search could slide into political extremes, lead to violence, and ultimately to World War II.
When today there is often talk of a crisis in parliamentary democracy, when it has to prove its strength and appeal again, it is all the more necessary to look back 100 years into the era when democracy became a global expectation.