Book Description
In this re-assessment of Renaissance art, Lisa Jardine and Jerry Brotton examine the ways in which European civilization defined itself between 1450 and 1550.
Author : Lisa Jardine
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 13,98 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780801438080
In this re-assessment of Renaissance art, Lisa Jardine and Jerry Brotton examine the ways in which European civilization defined itself between 1450 and 1550.
Author : Simo Mikkonen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,33 MB
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 1317091744
Music, Art and Diplomacy shows how a vibrant field of cultural exchange between East and West was taking place during the Cold War, which contrasts with the orthodox understanding of two divided and antithetical blocs. The series of case studies on cultural exchanges, focusing on the decades following the Second World War, cover episodes involving art, classical music, theatre, dance and film. Despite the fluctuating fortunes of diplomatic relations between East and West, there was a continuous circulation of cultural producers and products. Contributors explore the interaction of arts and politics, the role of the arts in diplomacy and the part the arts played in the development of the Cold War. Art has always shunned political borders, wavering between the guidance of individual and governmental patrons, and borderless expression. While this volume provides insight into how political players tried to harness the arts to serve their own political purposes, at the same time it is clear that the arts and artists exploited the Cold War framework to reach their own individual and professional objectives. Utilizing archives available only since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the volume provides a valuable socio-cultural approach to understanding the Cold War and cultural diplomacy.
Author : Simo Mikkonen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 21,18 MB
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 3110570602
Despite increasing scholarship on the cultural Cold War, focus has been persistently been fixed on superpowers and their actions, missing the important role played by individuals and organizations all over Europe during the Cold War years. This volume focuses on cultural diplomacy and artistic interaction between Eastern and Western Europe after 1945. It aims at providing an essentially European point of view on the cultural Cold War, providing fresh insight into little known connections and cooperation in different artistic fields. Chapters of the volume address photography and architecture, popular as well as classical music, theatre and film, and fine arts. By examining different actors ranging from individuals to organizations such as universities, the volume brings new perspective on the mechanisms and workings of the cultural Cold War. Finally, the volume estimates the pertinence of the Cold War and its influence in post-1991 world. The volume offers an overview on the role culture played in international politics, as well as its role in the Cold War more generally, through interesting examples and case studies.
Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 39,23 MB
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110321513
This new volume explores the surprisingly intense and complex relationships between East and West during the Middle Ages and the early modern world, combining a large number of critical studies representing such diverse fields as literary (German, French, Italian, English, Spanish, and Arabic) and other subdisciplines of history, religion, anthropology, and linguistics. The differences between Islam and Christianity erected strong barriers separating two global cultures, but, as this volume indicates, despite many attempts to 'Other' the opposing side, the premodern world experienced an astonishing degree of contacts, meetings, exchanges, and influences. Scientists, travelers, authors, medical researchers, chroniclers, diplomats, and merchants criss-crossed the East and the West, or studied the sources produced by the other culture for many different reasons. As much as the theoretical concept of 'Orientalism' has been useful in sensitizing us to the fundamental tensions and conflicts separating both worlds at least since the eighteenth century, the premodern world did not quite yet operate in such an ideological framework. Even though the Crusades had violently pitted Christians against Muslims, there were countless contacts and a palpitable curiosity on both sides both before, during, and after those religious warfares.
Author : Christopher Saunders
Publisher : Springer
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 24,85 MB
Release : 1981-10-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1349060682
Author : Nixia Wu Lun
Publisher : Chinese University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 22,86 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789622012912
Author : Katherine V. Boyle
Publisher :
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,95 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN :
An overview and reassessment of what is known about the people who colonized and occupied Eurasian steppe from the Neolithic to the Iron Age.
Author : Xinjiang Rong
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 35,16 MB
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004512594
The Silk Road and Cultural Exchanges Between East and West, originally written in Chinese by Rong Xinjiang and now translated into English, provides insights into previously unresolved issues concerning the interactions among the societies, economies, religions and cultures of the “Western Regions”, and beyond, during the first millennium.
Author : Helen Westgeest
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 27,91 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN :
Enthält: Zen in de jaren vijftig: Wisselwerking in de beeldende kunst tussen Oost en West: Samenvatting.
Author : Kevork Oskanian
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 33,2 MB
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3030697134
This monograph provides a novel long-term approach to the role of Russia’s imperial legacies in its interactions with the former Soviet space. It develops ‘Hybrid Exceptionalism’ as a critical conceptual tool aimed at uncovering the great power’s self-positioning between ‘East’ and ‘West’, and its hierarchical claims over subalterns situated in both civilizational imaginaries. It explores how, in the Tsarist, Soviet, and contemporary eras, distinct civilizational spaces were created, and maintained, through narratives and practices emanating from Russia’s ambiguous relationship with Western modernity, and its part-identification with a subordinated ‘Orient’. The Romanov Empire’s struggles with ‘Russianness’, the USSR’s Marxism-Leninism, and contemporary Russia’s combination of feigned liberal and civilizational discourses are explored as the basis of a series of successive civilising missions, through an interdisciplinary engagement with official discourses, scholarship, and the arts. The book concludes with an exploration of contemporary policy implications for the West, and the former Soviet states themselves.