The artist, the Blue Badge tour guide, the construction superintendent – join writer Barbara Henderson and photographer Alan McCredie for an A-Z glimpse behind the scenes at Scotland's iconic Forth Bridge. Packed with stories and anecdotes, meet the people whose lives are inextricably welded to the famous red girders: enthusiasts, professionals, residents, researchers, souvenir sellers, lif…
Photographer Barbara Mensch's rediscovered photo archives and interview tapes capture symbolic transformations of Lower Manhattan. Many of these images are published here for the first time. The photographs evoke the passage of time by dividing the images into three parts: the 1980s, the 1990s, and the new millennium (2000 and beyond). The photographer shares with the viewer: "I would shoot rui…
A discussão proposta por este livro está baseada em questões suscitadas durante a minha pesquisa de mestrado, que resultou na Dissertação A ESPECIFICIDADE DA GESTÃO CULTURAL NO BRASIL: UMA LEITURA CRÍTICA DOS ANAIS DO ENECULT (2005-2014). Foi apresentada em agosto de 2015, em Niterói/RJ, junto ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração da Universidade Federal Fluminense, Área d…
Esta obra dedica-se ao estudo da cena cinematográfica e da produção audiovisual de animação do Brasil e do mundo. No contexto brasileiro, esse gênero ainda não alcançou uma ampla expressão, em parte pela dificuldade em competir, econômica e tecnologicamente, com a indústria de cinema norte-americana e de outros países, como a do Canadá e a do Japão, por exemplo. Entretanto, consta…
Künste bilden einen genuinen Bereich der Produktion von Wissen. Künstlerisches Wissen steht dabei im Austausch mit anderen kulturellen, sozialen oder politischen Wissensbereichen, es ist zugleich mit Praktiken verbunden, die an die Ränder etablierter und konsolidierter Wissensformen führen können. Die Beiträger*innen des Bandes stellen transdisziplinäre Ansätze zum Verständnis künstle…
Two series of works by Jeremias Altmann In his artistic work Jeremias Altmann deals with the themes of machine, man, and development. This elaborately designed monograph presents the artist's series YOUNG PROPHECIES and MACHINES. In the YOUNG PROPHECIES series, Altmann reconstructs his own childhood drawings. The examination of the inner workings of technical devices over time is the starting …
The book "Rethinking Postwar Europe" offers an in-depth insight into the largely unexplored topic of artistic practices in the 1940s and 1950s in Europe which until recently had been obscured by ideologies of the Cold War. Thanks to the authors' diverse methodological backgrounds, the volume presents – for the first time – a comprehensive multilayered narrative, focusing on the complexities…
Der Band vereint die neuesten Forschungsergebnisse zu der von Rudolf IV. initiierten Erweiterung der Wiener Stephanskirche in Hinblick auf seine Grablege, die auf einer interdisziplinär ausgerichteten Tagung diskutiert wurden.Neben einer Darstellung der Bauchronologie nach den Schriftquellen, einer profunden kunsthistorischen Einordnung des Hallenchores mit seiner künstlerisch und ikonographi…
Robert Koch besaß die Fähigkeit, wissenschaftliche Visionen mit disziplinierter Forschung zu verbinden. Mit der bahnbrechenden Entdeckung der Mikroorganismen als Erreger für Infektionskrankheiten fand er den Weg zur Überwindung verheerender Seuchen wie Tuberkulose und Cholera. Wie aus dem einfachen Landarzt ein herausragender Wissenschaftler wurde, der den Nobelpreis für Medizin erhielt, b…
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