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Adapting Greek Tragedy251,-299,Fifteen leading scholars and practitioners of theatre systematically explore, from a variety of perspectives, contemporary adaptations of Greek tragedy. The volume offers both a survey of recent developments and much-needed theoretical grounding in what is an increasingly dynamic approach to an ancient dramatic genre.Published: March 29, 2026 08:04Other BrandKunst og kultur
Gustave Caillebotte as Worker, Collector, Painter221,-251,Gustave Caillebotte was more than a painter: he collected postage stamps, designed and raced yachts, cultivated rare orchids, collected Impressionist masterpieces, and organised Impressionist exhibitions. Gustave Caillebotte as Worker, Collector, Painter presents the first comprehensive account of Caillebotte's passions and achievements, and reveals for the first time their profound impact upon his art. Where previous studies have examined Caillebotte’s interest in working men, this book develops earlier approaches by excavating Caillebotte’s work on in its own terms, to understand what it meant to him. Caillebotte was born to an haute bourgeois milieu in which he was never entirely comfortable and so he refused the life of idle luxury that his inherited wealth afforded him. Instead, he actively sought out opportunities to work hard, and laboriously studied others hard at work. Working at a moment in which definitions of work and class were being reshaped to suit the needs of a new and fragile Republic, Caillebotte profited from their malleability to fabricate a new sense of self and make his own place in the world. Understanding Gustave Caillebotte as a worker, collector, and painter sheds new light on this idiosyncratic and innovative Impressionist. The Caillebotte that emerges is thus more nuanced, complex, and fascinating than previous scholarship has suggested, offering readers a new reading of the artist's labor, art, and material practice in its broadest sense. As a result, the book stands as an important contribution to 19th-century art history, impressionist studies, and French social history.Published: March 29, 2026 08:04Other BrandKunst og kultur
Drawing Proper/Drawing Improper239,-399,A meditation on contemporary architectural drawing practice framed through 56 artifacts created by 28 architectural firms from around the globe.Published: March 29, 2026 08:04Other BrandKunst og kultur
The First Viral Images251,-419,As a social phenomenon and a commonplace of internet culture, virality provides a critical vocabulary for addressing questions raised by the global mobility and reproduction of early modern artworks. This book uses the concept of virality to study artworks’ role in the uneven processes of early modern globalization. Drawing from archival research in Asia, Europe, and the Americas, Stephanie Porras traces the trajectories of two interrelated objects made in Antwerp in the late sixteenth century: Gerónimo Nadal’s Evangelicae historiae imagines, an illustrated devotional text published and promoted by the Society of Jesus, and a singular composition by Maerten de Vos, St. Michael the Archangel. Both were reproduced and adapted across the early modern world in the seventeenth century. Porras examines how and why these objects traveled and were adopted as models by Spanish and Latin American painters, Chinese printmakers, Mughal miniaturists, and Filipino ivory carvers. Reassessing the creative labor underpinning the production of a diverse array of copies, citations, and reproductions, Porras uses virality to elucidate the interstices of the agency of individual artists or patrons, powerful gatekeepers and social networks, and economic, political, and religious infrastructures. In doing so, she tests and contests several analytical models that have dominated art-historical scholarship of the global early modern period, putting pressure on notions of copying, agency, context, and viewership. Vital and engaging, The First Viral Images sheds new light on how artworks, as agents of globalization, navigated and contributed to the emerging and intertwined global infrastructures of Catholicism, commerce, and colonialism.Published: March 29, 2026 08:04Other BrandKunst og kultur
Reconfiguring the Portrait821,-934,This collection of essays presents a new multidisciplinary perspective on portraiture in the era of post-digital mediaPublished: March 29, 2026 08:04Other BrandKunst og kultur
Wappen389,-649,Published: March 29, 2026 08:04Other BrandKunst og kultur