Avant-garde and criticism [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Klaus Beekman and Jan de Vries

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451830603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2007
• ISBN: 94-012-0398-9; 1-4294-8059-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (367 p.)
• Collana: Avant garde critical studies ; ; 21
• Altri autori (Persone): BeekmanK; VriesJan de <1951->
• Disciplina: 701.18
• Soggetti: Art criticism - History - 20th century; Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - Europe; Arts, European - 20th century; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary material / Editors Avant-Garde and Criticism -- Criticism and Avant-Garde / Klaus Beekman and Jan de Vries -- Art Criticism and Avant-Garde: André Lhote’s Written Works / Jean-Roch Bouiller -- Architectural Criticism in de 8 en OPBOUW / Ben Rebel -- Theo van Doesburg and Writings on Film in De Stijl / Ansje van Beusekom -- The International Theatre Exhibition of 1922 and the Critics / Peter G.F. Eversmann -- The Making of a Reputation: the Case of Cobra / Nico Laan -- Avant-Garde Reviewing of New Book Releases A Case Study from The Netherlands / Hugo Verdaasdonk -- Mayakovsky as Literary Critic / Willem G. Weststeijn -- German Art in The Netherlands before and after World War II / Gregor Langfeld -- Banality in Art Criticism. Comments on the Reception of Art in the German Daily Press of the 1920's / Arie Hartog -- A Victorious Campaign for Dadaism? On the Press Coverage of the Dutch Dada Tour of 1923 / Hubert F. van den Berg -- The Inevitability of Argumentative Criticism Theo van Doesburg and the Constructive Review / Klaus Beekman -- On Intentionality and Avant-Garde Criticism / Ralf Grüttemeier -- Resistance to the Avant-Garde Criticism of the Avant-Garde in Dutch Literary Periodicals / ; Wiljan van den Akker and Gillis Dorleijn -- Dutch Contemporaries on Proust and the Historic Avant-Garde / Sabine van Wesemael -- The Writing Artists of the Magazine Kroniek van Kunst en Kultuur (Chronicle of Art and Culture) in the Period 1935-1941 / Hestia Bavelaar.
• Sommario/riassunto: Avant-Garde and Criticism sheds new light on the complex aims, functions, practices and contexts of art-criticism in relation to the European avant-garde. Although many avant-garde works and the avant-gardes of various countries have been analyzed, considerably less attention has been given to the reviews in newspapers and journals on avant-garde literature, art, architecture and film. This volume of Avant-Garde Critical Studies will look at how art critics operated in a strategic way. The strategies of avant-garde criticism are diverse. Art critics, especially when they are artists themselves, attempt to manipulate the cultural climate in their favour. They use their position to legitimize avant-garde concepts and to conquer a place in the cultural field. But they are also markedly influenced by the context in which they operate. The position of fellow-critics and the ideological bias of the papers in which they publish can be as important as the political climate in which their criticism flourishes. The analysis of avant-garde art criticism can also make clear how strategies sometimes fail and involuntarily display non-avant-garde characteristics. On the other hand traditionalist criticism on the avant-garde offers new insights into its status and reception in a given time and place. This volume is of interest for scholars, teachers and students who are interested in the avant-garde of the interbellum-period and work in the field of literature, art, film and architecture.

The Care of the Self in Early Christian Texts / / by Deborah Niederer Saxon

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910255222003321
• Autore: Niederer Saxon Deborah
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017
• ISBN: 9783319647500; 3319647504
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2017.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XV, 213 p. 1 illus.)
• Collana: The Bible and Cultural Studies, , 2945-6223
• Disciplina: 230.041
• Soggetti: Bible - Study and teaching; Religion - Philosophy; Religion and sociology; Biblical Studies; Philosophy of Religion; Sociology of Religion
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- 2. The Importance of the Care of the Self in the History of Early Christ Movements -- 3. Martyrdom Represented as Care of the Self in the Texts of Clement, Ignatius and Polycarp -- 4. Competing Visions of the Care of the Self in the Apocalypse of Peter, the Testimony of Truth, Fragments of Basilides and Valentinus, and the Gospel of Judas -- 5. Complementary Representations of the Care of the Self in the Gospel of Mary and the Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicity -- 6. The Two Poles of Parrhēsia and Concluding Remarks.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book presents the first three Christian centuries through the lens of what Foucault called "the care of the self." This lens reveals a rich variation among early Christ movements by illuminating their practices instead of focusing on what we anachronistically assume to have been their beliefs. A deep analysis of the discourse of martyrdom demonstrates how writers like Clement, Ignatius, and Polycarp represented as self-care. Deborah Niederer Saxon brings to light an ; entire spectrum of alternative views represented in newly-discovered texts from Nag Hammadi and elsewhere. This insightful analysis has implications for feminist scholarship and exposes the false binary of thinking in terms of "orthodoxy" versus "heresy"/"Gnosticism.".