Geography of Art
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Une histoire globale des avant-gardes picturales se doit d’expliquer pourquoi celles-ci apparurent en certains endroits et pas en d’autres, comment elles circulaient entre les pays et les capitales, ce qui les portait et si elles... more
This text explores some aspects of the controversial relationship between geography and art looking for possible points of convergence. The focus is mainly on three themes: a) the spatial patterns that we use in the writing of our... more
RESUMO: A pintura de paisagem de Benedito Calixto propõe questões, além das acuradas descrições iconográficas dos locais representados. Aqui, propõe-se analisar e discutir suas paisagens históricas enquanto resultados de pesquisas... more
For A Global History of Modernism - Stakes and Approaches
Este estudo estabelece de forma inédita uma leitura crítica e transversal da importância da arte no contexto das missões católicas na Índia, na China e no Japão e em torno dos processos sistemáticos de relação da imagem sagrada com as... more
The artistic culture and art of the 18th century of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth have earned due recognition and been subject to first systematic studies only in the past 30 years. Considering the preliminary nature of the study,... more
Art geography currently has a hard time in German art historiography. Its methodological assumption of a spatial style made it superficially common with the National Socialist spatial fantasies. This perhorrescence, which has persisted to... more
The chapter is about the history and memory of a building located on 27, Sherif Street (initially Madabegh) in downtown Cairo, that witnessed many (long-forgotten) episodes of the blossoming Egyptian art scene since the 1890s. The initial... more
The Elector of Saxony’s wire drawing bench is an extremely complicated piece of art and technology which is relatively unknown outside France and Germany. It deserves to be more widely known not only amongst the general public, but also... more
This chapter was published in a wonderful collection dealing with the conceptual history of European meso-regions, such as Scandinavia, the Balkans and Central Europe, and deals with the question: Does Art Belong to Tribes, Nations,... more
Félix Ziem (1821–1911) was one of the wealthiest artists in nineteenth-century France. Recognized as the “painter of Venice,” he made his reputation in the 1850s by displaying his landscapes at the Paris Salon. In 1910, thanks to a... more
This paper takes place in a research program on the historical geography of the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia which purpose is to bring to light the history of different regions as centers and not only as peripheries to be dominated or to... more
In this article we focus upon the spatiality of the artistic circle Les XX, in Belgium and in Europe. We study the installation of the circle’s members in both Brussels and the context of the city’s local artistic geography. One zone... more
In the Victorian period, Venice was linked to an iconography devoid of any references to the Dolomite Mountains. The connection between the city and its Alpine horizon remained concealed under a veil of haziness. This paper seeks to... more
Art galleries occupy little yet significant place in works on gentrification and economic redevelopment of cities through culture. Because of their complex nature, aimed to sell symbolic goods, those places raise many issues about retail... more
The plain factory civilization, which had been formed by the beginning of the twentieth century in the central industrial region of the Russian Empire and was a stable cultural model characterized by the dominance of the textile industry,... more
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Name of envelopes, marking part of the text erroneously inbound title Volume 1
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Name of envelopes, marking part of the text erroneously inbound title Volume 1
A global survey of the geography of avant-gardes during the First World War
Cet article analyse une partie de la production artistique d’un groupe de peintres français ayant vécu au Brésil au cours du XIXe siècle. Ces artistes ont documenté visuellement, les aspects sociaux, culturels et économiques de la colonie... more
A spatiotemporal vision of modernism has been accepted not only by artists, but also by art history: what was “new” and needed to be written into history is supposed to have emerged from a unique and superior center — Paris before the... more
Mein Aufsatz beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, inwiefern die künstlerische Produktion entlang der unteren Donau im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert mit jener West- und Mitteleuropas im Barockzeitalter sinnvoll in Verbindung gebracht werden kann. Das... more
The tabernacle altar from Vojnany, today in the collections of the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava, belongs to a small group of altarpieces preserved from the 13th Century. Mostly, they have survived only in fragments (dominantely... more
Cette these est consacree a l’evolution de l’inscription spatiale des artistes plasticiens dans la ville : elle entend questionner le caractere pionnier de celle-ci en relation avec les transformations du tissu urbain ainsi que le role... more
À travers la trajectoire professionnelle et les mobilités artistiques de Peterson Kamwathi, artiste formé et vivant à Nairobi, il s’agit de cerner la position et le rôle d’une grande ville du Sud dans l’expansion du champ de l’art... more
in: Matthias Krüger und Isabella Woldt (Hg.): Im Dienst der Nation. Identitätsstiftungen und Identitätsbrüche in Werken der bildenden Kunst, Berlin 2011, S. 187-205.
Roue de Bicyclette, Pharmacie and Porte-bouteilles from 1913 to 1914, were Marcel Duchamp’s first three readymades. Although the term came later, the works were fundamental to his new esthetic. In light of the artist’s scientific and... more