Christa Wolf

Gerhard Wolf

Anmerkungen zum Fall der Mauer

Ost und West

Louis Alexander Waldman

Joseph Connors

For half a century the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagun (1499--1590), often described as the first anthropologist of the New World, worked with his indigenous colleagues at the Collegio Imperial at Tlatelolco (now Mexico City) on an encyclopedic compendium of the beliefs, rituals, language, arts, and economy of the vanishing culture of the Aztecs. Colors Between Two Worlds examines the most richly illustrated manuscript of this great ethnographic work, the Florentine Codex, which is in the collection of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence, through the issue of color. The Codex reveals how the colors the Aztecs used in their artistic production and in everyday life, as well as the names they gave each color, illuminate their understanding of the world around them, from the weather to the curing of disease. The pigments and dyes that indigenous artists used to illustrate the Codex reflect a larger dialogue between native and European cultures, which the Florentine Codex records more fully than any surviving document from colonial New Spain. -- Publisher's blurb.

The Florentine Codex of Bernardino de Sahagún

Colors Between Two Worlds

Stefan Weber

Georges Khalil

Benoît Junod

A unique, multi-authored volume on the issues and politics of curating Islamic art in the twenty-first century.

Approaches to Art and Archeology of the Muslim World in the Twenty-first Century

Islamic Art and the Museum

Judith Klinger

Individual remembering and forgetting is, as we know, not subject to conscious intention, but is part of a collective process of remembering which is formed in part by cultural change. Thus ‘memory writing’ is dependent far more on the effects of narrative and linguistic models than directed by historical truth. German Studies have approached this topic, which has been reignited through the controversies surrounding the Nazi past of prominent authors. The present volume documents the intensive discussions conducted on the subject at the Annual German Studies Conference held in Marburg in 2007.

Erinnerndes Schreiben - Perspektiven und Kontroversen

Gedächtnis und kultureller Wandel

Marzia Faietti

"There are no lines in nature; lines are always the expression of human actions, perception and design. Lines divide or connect; they are sometimes static and sometimes gestural and full of movement; they represent and create forms in space and time. The essays in this volume elucidate the semantic and conceptual depth of the line in European, Asian and Islamic cultures and reveal the continuity and transformation of the line over the course of centuries as a constitutive element in architecture, art and writing and as a medium of expression in choreography and scientific and technological fields"--Publisher's website.

Linea III

The Power of Line

„Ein Genie der Gemeinsamkeit“ Volker Braun. „Wer ist Gerhard Wolf? Der wagemutige Verleger, eindringliche Essayist, exzellente Lektor, kunstversessene Herausgeber? Der Meisterkoch der deutschen Gegenwartsliteratur? Der Mann einer berühmten Frau, der Schriftstellerin Christa Wolf? Sollte all dies in einer einzigen Person vereinigt sein?“ Friedrich Dieckmann. Wenn dieser Gerhard Wolf seinen Passionen folgt und über Begegnungen mit unvergesslichen Literatur- und Malerfreunden schreibt, entstehen lebendige Künstlerporträts, die zum Lesen und Entdecken verführen: Irmtraud Morgner, Walter Jens, Günter de Bruyn, otl aicher, Carola Stern, Heinz Zöger, Stephan Hermlin, Tadeusz Różewicz, Günter Grass, Bert Papenfuß, Stefan Heym, Andreas Reimann, Johannes Bobrowski, Carlfriedrich Claus, Christa Cremer, Volker Braun, Gino Hahnemann, Jan Faktor, Louis Fürnberg, Nuria Quevedo, Maria Sommer, Barbara Beisinghoff, Róža Domašcyna, Angela Hampel, Franci Faktorová, Brigitte Reimann u. a. „Ich kann nur über mich schreiben, indem ich über andere schreibe.“ Gerhard Wolf

Memorial – unvergessliche Begegnungen

Herzenssache

Heinz Ludwig Arnold

neue DDR-Literatur der 80er Jahre

Die Andere Sprache

grafie di immagini tra Quattrocento e Cinquecento

Linea I

Following the brutal invasion and occupation of Poland, the Nazis put measures into place: remove the Jews, bring in German settlers, and racially classify the rest of the population in order to separate Poles from ethnic Germans. Gerhard Wolf reveals an astonishing reality in which the plan met with massive resistance from various Nazi occupation institutions, especially when it came to deeming a majority of Polish citizens as "racially unfit." According to Wolf, the everchanging environment of the war meant this was a highly experimental process and emphasizes the formative aspects of Nazi policy-making and how key actors struggled to define racial criteria and determine whether they would have the desired effect. Students and scholars of the Polish occupation, the Holocaust, and Nazism will find new analysis of German imperialism, ethnic cleansing, and genocide in this important book.

Nazi Germanization Policies in Poland

Ideology and the Rationality of Domination

Erik Thunø

Accademia di Danimarca

Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institut

The present volume results from the conference L'immagine miracolosa nella cultura tardomedievale e rinascimentale, which was held at the Danish Academy in Rome, 31 May - 2 June 2002. The aim of the conference was to shed light on a body of visual material, often neglected by art history, and thus to call attention to a new field of study in the visual arts of the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Papers from a Conference Held at the Accademia Di Danimarca in Collaboration with the Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max-Planck-Institut Für Kunstgeschichte), Rome, 31 May - 2 June 2003

The Miraculous Image in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance

Symposium vom 28. bis 30. November 1997 in Frankfurt (Oder) Referate und Diskussionen

Wissenschaftliche Analysen

Kriminalität im Grenzgebiet

Horst Bredekamp

Uwe Fleckner

Andreas Beyer

Aby Warburgs Vermächtnis und die Zukunft der Ikonologie

Bilderfahrzeuge

Hannah Baader

Sugata Ray

What are the conceptual interconnections, fractures, and correspondences between theories of nature, ecology, environment, and aesthetics? In answering such a question, 'Ecologies, Aesthetics, and Histories of Art' brings art history, a discipline that has for long been concerned with notions of landscape, nature, materiality, and aesthetic processes, into the emerging conversation of the ecological turn in visual culture studies.

Ecologies, Aesthetics, and Histories of Art

Gerhard Wolf

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