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The pictorial turn in the humanities and social sciences has
foregrounded the political power of images and the extent to which
historical, political, social, and cultural processes and practices
are shaped visually. Political iconographies are taken to interpret
norms of actions, support ideological formations, and enhance moral
concepts. Visual rhetorics are understood as active players in the
construction and contestation of the political realm and public
space. The twenty-one articles by scholars from Europe and the
United States explore the political function and cultural impact of
images from the perspectives of Art History, American Studies,
Visual Culture Studies, History, and Political Science. The
contributions in particular address the complex interplay between
agent and addressee in the public space as well as issues of
national identity, discourses of inclusion and exclusion, and the
designation of political spaces within transnational contexts. The
publication is part of the interdisciplinary research initiative
"Perceiving and Understanding: Functions, Perception Processes,
Forms of Visualizations, Cultural Strategies of Pictures and Texts"
at the University of Regensburg.
His paintbrush set everything in motion: the landscape of Provence,
the colourful still lifes, his portraits and the picturesque coast
of southern France. More than any other artist, Paul Cézanne, the
“Father of Modernismâ€, captured the light and the play of
colours of the South in his pictures and lent them through his new
pictorial language a liveliness and dynamism which continue to
fascinate viewers to this day. Paul Cézanne (1839 – 1906)
painted the Montagne Sainte-Victoire, a rocky massif near his
birthplace Aix-en-Provence, some 80 times. The artist translated
the interplay of sunlight and shadow on the constantly changing
stone into pictures on the threshold of abstraction. Today they are
seen as icons of art history and they underline Cézanne’s
reputation as one of the most important pioneers of Classical
Modernism. Countless artists, including Matisse, Derain, Picasso,
Braque and Léger found inspiration in Cézanne’s ideas on colour
modulation and pictorial composition. In this publication the
author Christoph Wagner positions Cézanne as an artistic genius
who opened up for future generations a completely new view of the
world through his paintings and watercolours.
When the State Bauhaus opened in Weimar in 1918, the Swiss artist
and art theorist Johannes Itten (1888 - 1967) was one of the first
teachers to be appointed by Walter Gropius. With his preliminary
course, Itten had a considerable effect on the creative training in
the Bauhaus; to this day his insights into the theory of colours
set standards in art education and in the field of design.
Enquiring mind and lecturer, painter and art teacher - Johannes
Itten was a very thoughtful artist personality which was reflected
in numerous theoretical texts and artworks covering a wide range of
styles. Constantly in dialogue with students and colleagues as well
as in a study of other cultures and artistic ideas, Itten created
works in which he examined colours, their aura, contrasts and
forms. Inspired by Adolf Hoelzel, his teacher at the Stuttgart
Academy, Itten developed, amongst other things, the famous doctrine
of colour types whose significance extends far beyond the realms of
art into everyday culture. The acknowledged Itten expert Christoph
Wagner introduces the artist with his complex and symbolic work and
traces an arc from the revolutionary Bauhaus teacher and founder of
various art schools to the art theorist of the theory of colours.
The painter Hans Purrmann (1880-1966) ranks among the most
important colourists of twentieth- entury art. Drawing on Henri
Matisse and the expressionists, he developed a distinct and
acclaimed artistic practice over the course of a life lived in
places from Munich to Paris to Berlin to Florence to Switzerland.
Part of the secret of Hans Purrmann's art is that in his work he
translated the visible in a very specific and vibrant manner. With
irrepressible curiosity, attentiveness and an unerring eye for
beauty and the primal and essential, he produced works whose
classification as "representational painting" falls short. In fact,
his place in art history is one which continues to offer points of
departure for modernism ["einen fur die Moderne bis heute
anschlussfahigen Rang": in der Kunst ist die Moderne eine
abgeschlossene Epoche]: in 1955 Purrmann was included in documenta
I in Kassel, and in 1962 he was the subject of a major
retrospective at the Haus der Kunst in Munich which was hailed by
the press as a sensation. Based on new sources, Christoph Wagner
presents the life and work of Hans Purrmann and places the painter
as a prominent protagonist within the coordinates of
twentieth-century art history.
Contains Nearly 100 Pages of New Material
The recent financial crisis has shown that credit risk in
particular and finance in general remain important fields for the
application of mathematical concepts to real-life situations. While
continuing to focus on common mathematical approaches to model
credit portfolios, Introduction to Credit Risk Modeling, Second
Edition presents updates on model developments that have occurred
since the publication of the best-selling first edition.
New to the Second Edition
- An expanded section on techniques for the generation of loss
distributions
- Introductory sections on new topics, such as spectral risk
measures, an axiomatic approach to capital allocation, and
nonhomogeneous Markov chains
- Updated sections on the probability of default,
exposure-at-default, loss-given-default, and regulatory
capital
- A new section on multi-period models
- Recent developments in structured credit
The financial crisis illustrated the importance of effectively
communicating model outcomes and ensuring that the variation in
results is clearly understood by decision makers. The crisis also
showed that more modeling and more analysis are superior to only
one model. This accessible, self-contained book recommends using a
variety of models to shed light on different aspects of the true
nature of a credit risk problem, thereby allowing the problem to be
viewed from different angles.
In diesem Sammelband werden aktuelle Ansatze und Entwicklungen zu
grundlegenden Konzepten der Vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft
diskutiert, insbesondere zu den Themengebieten Staat und
Staatlichkeit, Demokratie sowie Rechtsstaatlichkeit und Governance.
Damit wird ein breites Spektrum der Vergleichenden
Politikwissenschaft abgedeckt. Mit einem besonderen Abschnitt zu
Lateinamerika werden auch uber Europa hinausgehende Themen
angesprochen. Die Beitrage stammen von renommierten deutschen und
europaischen Politikwissenschaftler*innen. Der Sammelband
vermittelt so einen UEberblick zu zentralen aktuellen Debatten der
Vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft.
The Bauhaus master Johannes Ittenis one of the prominent
protagonists of early Modernism in twentieth-century art. Few
people are aware of the close links between his beginnings as an
artist and his experience of landscape and nature in the town of
Thun and Lake Thun. Johannes Itten gained decisive impulses for the
development of his concept of art and his path towards abstraction
through various stations and sojourns in Thun and its surroundings.
By means of examples of the representations of nature in his early
work the publication shows in scholarly depth how Itten discovered
his own, very personal and later internationally famous approach to
art and painting style and presents his pictorial transformation of
natureextending through to the artist's late works.
Master's Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject Sport - Sport
Sociology, grade: B, University of Leicester (Institute for
Sociology), course: MA course for Sociology of Sports, language:
English, abstract: Abstract The increasing insecurity in English
society is countered by a resurgence of nostalgia and remembering
the old times. This phenomenon can be found in football, too, but
it differs from the need for nostalgia that is visible in society.
High Street shops like Past Times are hugely successful in selling
commodities that remember the English Commonwealth with goods from
the countries that once belonged to it. Also, this becomes visible
by the many replica items of daily life that are designed in a
retro style but contain modern technology such as radios, watches,
alarm clocks and furniture. Football fans can purchase replica
shirts of their favourite club from the seventies and even earlier.
In the field of football, the introduction of the Premier League in
England has ultimately changed the face of football. Football was
commodified and has become the most successful part of the
entertainment industry. In the wake of the Heysel and Hillsborough
disasters football fans got active themselves and started to
publish football fanzines as a reaction to the general condemnation
they had to endure. In these outlets they mostly opposed the view
that every football fan is a hooligan. They also used football
fanzines as a platform to remember their heroes and glories of eras
long gone. For this reason cultures of memory did become a part of
football fanzines and did so very vividly.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
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++++ De Genuino Definitionis Tutelae Intellectu: Liber Singularis
Christoph Wagner
The increasing insecurity in the English society is countered by a
resurgence of nostalgia and remembering the old times. This
phenomenon can be found in football, too, but it differs from the
need for nostalgia that is visible in society. High Street shops
like Past Times are hugely successful in selling commodities that
remember the English Commonwealth with goods from the countries
that once belonged to it. Also, this becomes visible by the many
replica items of daily life that are designed in a retro style but
contain modern technology such as radios, watches, alarm clocks and
furniture. Football fans can purchase replica shirts of their
favourite club from the seventies and even earlier.In the field of
football, the introduction of the Premier League in England has
changed the face of football massively. After the Heysel and
Hillsborough disasters football fans got active themselves and
started to publish football fanzines. In these outlets they mostly
opposed the view that every football fan is a hooligan. They also
used football fanzines as a platform to remember their heroes and
glories of eras long gone. For this reason cultures of memory did
become a part of football fanzines and did so very vivid.
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language
and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,7
(A-), Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg (Institute for Foreign
Language Philology), course: Hauptseminar City Cultures, language:
English, abstract: When writing and talking about football the
first thought is about which side is going to be German champion,
European or World champion, which side will win the Champions
League or the UEFA-Cup. Often the words go further onto the
players, their wages that players earn too much money and much more
that is directly linked with the game itself. Seldomly the talk is
about such things as media influence and control, the development
of the game, its sociological dimension or anything that plays an
important role offside the pitch. Only when the clubs are nearly
bankrupt or a new ground has to be built pub talk turns away from
the game and its facts onto politics.
Paintings, graphic works, sculptures, textiles and furniture -
Johannes Itten was an unusually versatile artist who during the six
decades of his creative career also produced one of the most
important works on the theory of colours in the twentieth century.
His artistic work is examined here for the first time
scientifically on the basis of 120,000 biographical documents and
sources and is being expanded in comparison with the catalogue
raisonne of 1972 by more than 1,000 works from all creative
periods. The three-volume catalogue raisonne includes the latest
provenance research, an index of exhibitions and literature and
provides for the first time a complete overview of the artistic
cosmos of Johannes Itten.
Book & DVD. Text in English & German. Friedrich Christoph
Wagner spent the years between 1965 and 2002 with few interruptions
lecturing students of architecture on the basics of design. In this
book he spreads out a summation of his teachings. Thereby he
presents an insight into his working methods, a definition of the
position of the basics of design, a practical didactic system for
creativity, perception and aesthetics as well as a large number of
examples of his students' work. A first block about creative
training is followed by a broad selection of sculptural themes by
means of study pieces based upon "body space" and "the logic of the
form". Then the author is moving along with studies of the
phenomenon of space with its basic topological and geometrical
patterns as well as the primal images and primal acts in
architecture. This is followed by a discussion of the surface and
of surface structures as well as of the line, with the concomitant
topics of sequences and proportions. Under 'Elements of
architecture' the author presents students' projects and findings,
with an emphasis on proxemics, locations, situations, the ways in
which people behave and the corresponding forms in architecture. In
connection with this, a number of excursions were undertaken to the
island of Sifnos in the Cyclades, where students assisted in making
measurements and conducting research at the Kato Petali site. The
book contains a DVD with sound samples and films concerned with
'space and light'.
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