1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910227345103321

Autore

Brabant Dominik

Titolo

Rodin-Lekturen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cologne, : Modern Academic Publishing, 2017

ISBN

3-946198-25-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328)

Soggetti

Theory of art

History of art / art & design styles

History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900

History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -

Sculpture

Humanities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

the title Figurenkunst und Künstlerfigur turns to the art-critical writings on the Gates of Hell (1880). In this chapter, famous art critics and writers such as Edmond de Goncourt, Gustave Geffroy, Anatole France and Arthur Symons are at the centerof interest. For the generation of the symbolist art critics, for example, the Gates of Hell became an icon of their own melancholic art doctrine insofar as the art work seemed to stage a temporality of deferral and hesitation which could be understood as a counter-image to an all-too-optimistic belief in historical progress. At the same time, Rodin’s apparent inability to bring this work to an end seemed to betray a very similar understanding of time. Rilke’s and Simmel’s interpretations of Rodin’s work, which are at the core of the following chapter, are described as theoretically ambitious attempts of emulating the art-critical debate at the turn of the century by using innovative narrative strategies of coalescing biographical patterns and reflections on art (Rilke) or by declaring Rodin’s work to be the ideal object for an analysis of modernity in the context of contemporary sociology (Simmel).
The sixth chapter, entitled Verlust und Wiederbelebung, turns to two



interpretations by German-speaking authors in the years around 1950: the philosopher Günther Anders and the art historian Josef Schmoll. gen. Eisenwerth. Anders, who was also a student of Edmund Husserl, described Rodin’s sculptural images of the human body as artistic expressions of an historical experience of loss and isolation, as objects which could stimulate a deepened reflection about modernity as crises. Josef Schmoll gen. Eisenwerth’s investigations of the motif of the torso, which emerged in the 1950s, rather tried to describe the fragmented body as the »symbol« of an aesthetic experience of totality and holism. Obviously, the art historian’s strategy of emphatically denying the disturbing aesthetic effects of some of Rodin’s torsos can be – at least from today’s perspective – conceived as a way of dealing with the historical experience of the collapse of civilization.
The last chapter of the study is entitled Auf dem Weg in die Postmoderne. It focuses on the writings of Leo Steinberg and Rosalind Krauss since the 1960s. While Steinberg was mostly interested in the diverse ways of how Rodin constructed and deconstructed the meanings of his sculptures with the help of the art forms of the »montage« and the »assemblage«, thereby ostentatiously demonstrating the sculptural »semiosis«, Krauss emphatically turned to the problem of ›reading‹ Rodin’s images of the human body. For her, Rodin’s sculptures became emblems of an ›opaque‹ subjectivity and therefore the first artistic realizations of a radically new paradigm of aesthetic reception: Instead of clinging to the traditional notions of psychological and hermeneutical depth in the beholding of sculptures, in her view Rodin’s sculptures emphasize the material surface as the original site of the production of meaning."



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455581203321

Autore

Mikuni Akio <1939->

Titolo

Japan's policy trap [[electronic resource] ] : dollars, deflation, and the crisis of Japanese finance / / Akio Mikuni, R. Taggart Murphy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2002

ISBN

1-282-75849-7

9786612758492

0-8157-9876-8

Descrizione fisica

xiii, 294 p

Altri autori (Persone)

MurphyR. Taggart

Disciplina

332.4/1/0952

Soggetti

Balance of trade - Japan

Political culture - Japan

Electronic books.

Japan Foreign economic relations

Japan Economic conditions 1989-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The policy trap -- The preservation of bureaucratic power -- Monetary policy and mercantilism -- Hoarding gold, hoarding dollars -- Experimenting with bubbles -- Of a great bubble and its collapse -- The downward spiral -- The policy trap revisited -- The anomalies of contemporary Japan -- The end of the Japanese system?



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910426045803321

Autore

Hauptmann Andreas

Titolo

Archaeometallurgy : material science aspects / / Andreas Hauptmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

3-030-50367-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVIII, 595 p. 266 illus., 149 illus. in color.)

Collana

Natural Science in Archaeology, , 1613-9712

Disciplina

930.1

Soggetti

Metallurgy in archaeology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Archaeology and Archaeometallurgy -- Stages of Early Metallurgical Activities -- Ancient Ore Deposits -- Basic Physical-Chemical Principles of Ancient Metallurgy -- Archaeometallurgical Slags and Other Debris -- Making Metals: Ancient Metallurgical Processes -- Metals and Alloys -- Macro- and Microstructure of Metals -- Ethnographic Evidence and Artisanal Metal Production -- Experimental Archaeometallurgy -- Provenance Studies.

Sommario/riassunto

This book successfully connects archaeology and archaeometallurgy with geoscience and metallurgy. It addresses topics concerning ore deposits, archaeological field evidence of early metal production, and basic chemical-physical principles, as well as experimental ethnographic works on a low handicraft base and artisanal metal production to help readers better understand what happened in antiquity. The book is chiefly intended for scholars and students engaged in interdisciplinary work.