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Wang Guangyi, one of the stars of the new wave of Chinese art, has artistically addressed major philosophical trends in Western philosophy while drawing on Taoism, Marxism and Maoism. By bringing together a team of experts in the philosophy of art to discuss his work, The Philosophy and Art of Wang Guangyi presents the first philosophical exploration of Wang's art, his thought and his analysis of Chinese society. From his use of words in images to his reference to the classics of Western painting, contributors set Wang's work against key questions in contemporary art. As well as answering what makes the language of pop art successful, they examine whether art and its history have come to an end, as Hegel posited, and if it is possible or even necessary to rework a new narrative for the history of contemporary art. The Philosophy and Art of Wang Guangyi marks an important contribution to understanding the background, work and ideas of a 21st-century political artist outside the West.
The Nordic Voter is the first book-length comparative analysis of voting behaviour in the five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland. Leading scholars from national election studies teams present a detailed account of voter turnout, party identification, satisfaction with democracy, preferential voting, government support and party choice. The five-nation study is based on a comparative data set prepared uniquely for this book that allows for comprehensive analysis of the diversity in voting behaviour in the Nordic countries, as well as discrepancies between Nordic and non-Nordic countries. The book counters the widespread tendency for comparative analyses to lump Nordic countries together. Its general claim, substantiated by a unique and extensive empirical analysis of voter behaviour, is that the differences between the Nordic countries are in fact so large – in terms of institutional settings and micro-level voting behaviour – that there is no justification for making general claims about a typical ‘Nordic voter’. The authors challenge presumptions about ‘remarkable similarities’ between Nordic voters, revealing numerous examples of remarkable dissimilarities between voters in the Nordic countries.
Few literary phenomena are as elusive and yet as persistent as realism. While it responds to the perennial impulse to use literature to reflect on experience, it also designates a specific set of literary and artistic practices that emerged in response to Western modernity. Landscapes of Realism is a two-volume collaborative interdisciplinary exploration of this vast territory, bringing together leading-edge new criticism on the realist paradigms that were first articulated in nineteenth-century Europe but have since gone on globally to transform the literary landscape. Tracing the manifold ways in which these paradigms are developed, discussed and contested across time, space, cultures and media, this first volume tackles in its five core essays and twenty-five case studies such questions as why realism emerged when it did, why and how it developed such a transformative dynamic across languages, to what extent realist poetics remain central to art and popular culture after 1900, and how generally to reassess realism from a twenty-first-century comparative perspective.
With a series of controversial projects, Morten Viskum (b. 1965) has established himself as the artist Norway's cultural media likes to discuss most. Through his performative works he has shed light on a fear of the ephemeral and the strange that pervades our culture. Employing unconventional tools-including medical equipment, dead animals, cancer cells, and a deceased man's hand-he challenges both the relationship between science and ethics, and what art can morally embrace. Viskum works with installation, performance, photography, and painting, and has been represented at various exhibitions nationally and internationally.
This series of portraits of children preparing to attend an imaginary birthday party explore what characters might be created if role-play is pushed to imaginative extremes. The children are placed in front of the same white wall and gaze into the lens of the camera, performing within a strictly composed frame. They reveal very little of themselves and yet this makes the portraits that much more magnetic. The childlike game of dressing up and costume reinforces the surreal tone of the series - exposing a side to childhood which is removed from cliche and a perfect world.
Die Goldbrakteaten zeigen auf kleinstem Raum eine reiche Ikonographie, deren Vorbilder vornehmlich auf den Münzen und Medaillons der konstantinischen Ära zu finden sind. Diese Vorbilder werden einem komplexen Aneignungsprozess unterworfen, um damit das eigene religiöse Weltbild zum Ausdruck zu bringen. Ähnliches gilt für die Münzlegenden, die zunächst nachgeahmt, dann aber durch Runeninschriften ersetzt werden. Diese repräsentieren etwa ein Drittel aller bisher bekannten Inschriften im älteren Futhark. Damit sind die Goldbrakteaten eine der wichtigsten Quellengattungen zur Erforschung der germanischen Religion. Ihr Verständnis wird zum einen durch die ikonographischen Vorbilder der Spätantike zum anderen durch die weit späteren Schriftzeugnisse der Isländer, namentlich der Lieder-Edda und der Snorra-Edda gefördert. Der hier vorgelegte Band vereint Beiträge einer Forschergruppe um den 2007 verstorbenen Doyen der Brakteatenforschung Karl Hauck. Neben einer ausführlichen Geschichte der Brakteatenforschung werden unterschiedliche Themen aus den Bereichen Ikonographie, Chronologie, Inschriften, Namensschatz sowie zum kulturellen und religiösen Umfeld der Goldbrakteaten erörtert. Ein ausführlicher Katalog präsentiert die Neufunde seit Abschluss des Ikonographischen Katalogs im Jahr 1989.