New perspectives in iconology : visual studies and anthropology

Format:: Book
Language:: English
Imprint:: Brussels : Academic and Scientific Publishers, ©2011
Subject:: Art - Themes, motives
Art - History
Art and society
Visual perception
Art and anthropology
Contributor:: Baert, Barbara
Lehmann, Ann-Sophie
Van den Akkerveken, Jenke
Schalley, Niels
ISBN:: 9789054879756 and 9054879750
Series:: Iconologies
Description:: 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliographic Note:: Includes bibliographical references
Contents:: Introduction: A sign of health : new perspectives in iconology / Barbara Baert, Ann-Sophie Lehmann and Jenke van den Akkerveken -- Part I. Iconology and visual studies. Idolatry, ideology, iconology : towards an archaeology of the visual studies / Ralph Dekoninck -- 'Without fear of border guards' : the Renaissance of visual culture / Rebecca Zorach -- Groaning paintings and weeping viewers : a Gellian perspective on visual persuasion / Caroline Van Eck -- Homosexuality disclosed : an iconological analysis of The two young lovers and a coiffeuse / Elham Etemadi -- Visual studies and iconology at the Russian Academy for Artistic Sciences : insights from an unfinished Russian experiment of the 1920's / Clemena Antonova -- Premises of a paradigm shift : when literature anticipates the humanities : Bildwissenschaft and the discourse of the unsayable in German-language literature around 1900 (Hugo von Hofmannsthal) / Antje Büssgen --Part II. Iconology and anthropology. The archaic idol and the beautiful ancient : history of art and historical anthropology in the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert / Ralph Dekoninck -- Johnny-head-in-the-air in America : Aby Warburg's experiment with children's drawings / Barbara Wittmann -- Man and image : Hans Belting's anthropology of the image and the German Bildwissenschaften / Ester Cleven -- A motif and its basal layer : the Haemorrhoissa (Mk 5:24b-34parr) and the interplay of iconological and anthropological research / Liesbet Kusters and Emma Sidgwick -- Matrix Marmorea : the sub-symbolic iconography of the creative energies in Europe and North Africa / Paul Vandenbroeck -- The visceral pleasures of looking : on iconology, anthropology and the neurosciences / Herman Roodenburg
Summary:: In this book the authors investigate how iconology as a field and method, which originated within art history, relates to recent developments in the Humanities such as Anthropology and Visual Studies. The main questions are: How has iconology evolved in the past decennia, could it incorporate Anthropology and Visual Studies towards a new science of images? How have new disciplines profited from iconology and how can they in turn inspire and/or reinvent iconology? These questions are addressed within a wide historical andgeographical scope, as we regard the tracing of pictorial meaning throughout time and space an essential characteristic of iconology
Collection:: BGC Monograph Stacks
Call Number:: N5303 .N49 2011
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