Art and its responses to changes in society
By: edited by Ines Unetič, Martin Germ, Martina Malešič, Asta Vrečko and Miha Zor
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781443897082
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Art and society; Social change
Description: This book brings together studies of young researchers dealing with the topics of decline, transformation, and rebirth from various points of view, characteristic of several different fields of the humanities and social sciences, in order to yield new insights into the analyzed subjects. The topics discussed here are diverse: on the one hand, several chapters deal with the metamorphosis of particular pictorial or architectural motifs and concepts, while on the other, studies are included that are dedicated to the analysis of the opera of individual artists, to various periods in architecture and landscape architecture, and to national and state commissions in art, as well as representations of WW2 atrocities in Yugoslavia and attempts to artistically reaffirm Christian symbolism after the end of socialism. As such, the book entails diverse scientific perceptions of art and society, from antiquity to modernity, from architecture to moving picture, from the USA to Yugoslavia, and from research on an object to observations on a concept.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Gorgon Medusa metamorphoses: from a declining pictorial motif to survival as a cinematographic motif  -- Annabelle Ruiz; title: A Hellenistic skyscraper: the reconceptualisation of the lost pharos at Alexandria and its relationship to American architecture at the turn of the twentieth century  -- Theresa A. Kutasz; title: Angelic identities: intersexual bodies in Klonaris and Thomadaki's multimedia practice  -- Laura Giudici; title: Christoph Schwarz's Last Judgement and counter-reformation in inner Austria  -- Casper Cerkovnik; title: The rebirth of the amateur artist: the effect of past opinions on the amateur artist in current research  -- Wendy Wiertz; title: Diversity in European garden art around 1800: "European" landscape garden design with its staffages and their functions  -- Ines Unetic; title: Tradition as a means of modernization: the critical role of the time "around 1800" for the early twentieth-century architectural theory in Germany  -- Rainer Schutzeichel; title: Small houses with gardens as a solution to a housing crisis: Slovenian architects' recommendations in the 1920s and 1930s  -- Alenka di Battista; title: In search of the national: Slovenian art in the 1930s  -- Asta Vrecko; title: State-commissioned depictions of historical subjects in Slovenian historical painting of the first and second Yugoslavia  -- Katarina Mohar; title: Socialist realism in Slovenia architecture: some remarks on its appearance and decline  -- Martina Malesic; title: Ballade of the Hanged: the representation of Second World War atrocities in Yugoslav memorial sculpture  -- Sanja Horvatincic; title: Reaffirmation of Christian symbolism within the city of Zagreb -- Ivana Podnar.