Reims on Fire

Reims on Fire
Author: Thomas W. Gaehtgens
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2018-07-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 160606570X

As the site of royal coronations, Reims cathedral was a monument to French national history and identity. But after German troops bombed the cathedral during World War I, it took on new meaning. The French reimagined it as a martyr of civilization, as the rupture between the warring states. Despite a history of mutual respect, the bombing of the cathedral caused all social, scientific, artistic, and cultural ties between Germany and France to be severed for decades. The resulting battle of words and images stressed the differences between German Kultur and French civilisation. Artists and intelligentsia caricatured this entrenched cultural dichotomy, influencing portrayals of the two nations in the international press. This book explores the structure’s breadth of meaning in symbolic, art historical, and historical arenas, including competing claims over the origins of Gothic art and architecture as national style and issues of monument preservation and restoration. It highlights how vulnerable art is during war, and how the destruction of nation-al monuments can set the tone for international conflict—once again a timely and pressing issue. Thomas W. Gaehtgens articulates how these nations began to mend their relationship in the decades after World War II, starting with the courageous vision of Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer, and how the cathedral of Reims was eventually transformed into a site of reconciliation and European unification.

Architecture and the Historical Imagination

Architecture and the Historical Imagination
Author: Martin Bressani
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 809
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1317179315

Hailed as one of the key theoreticians of modernism, Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc was also the most renowned restoration architect of his age, a celebrated medieval archaeologist and a fervent champion of Gothic revivalism. He published some of the most influential texts in the history of modern architecture such as the Dictionnaire raisonné de l’architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle and Entretiens sur l’architecture, but also studies on warfare, geology and racial history. Martin Bressani expertly traces Viollet-le-Duc’s complex intellectual development, mapping the attitudes he adopted toward the past, showing how restoration, in all its layered meaning, shaped his outlook. Through his life journey, we follow the route by which the technological subject was born out of nineteenth-century historicism.

Le patrimoine juif européen

Le patrimoine juif européen
Author: Max Polonovski
Publisher: Peeters Leuven
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2002
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

La culture juive possede peut-etre plus que toute autre, une dimension europeenne, compte tenu des deplacements et des vicissitudes que l'Histoire a impose au peuple juif au cours des siecles. Ce lien culturel reste tres perceptible a travers les elements patrimoniaux particuliers qu'ont legue les diverses communautes juives au sein des nations de l'Europe qui les ont accueillies. La valeur historique, artistique ou architecturale de ce patrimoine en fonction du role et de l'importance des communautes juives depend le plus souvent de facteurs propres a l'histoire de chaque pays. Cependant, un destin historique commun transcende les differences nationales. L'evaluation de la qualite artistique ou de l'interet historique du patrimoine juif en Europe apparait de ce fait comme une demarche difficile. Elle est d'autant plus souhaitable sur un plan global qu'ainsi elle permettra de reequilibrer une vision parfois restrictive de certains aspects de ce patrimoine, evalues selon des criteres qualitatifs ou quantitatifs reposant sur des references a un patrimoine plus traditionellement reconnu. C'est la raison qui a conduit la direction du Patrimoine a organiser au musee d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaisme a Paris une conference internationale consacree au patrimoine juif europeen en janvier 1999. Ce colloque, premier du genre organise en Europe, et reunissant des universitaires, des architectes, des responsables de collections et des representants d'institutions, etait consacre a la connaissance, a la conservation et a la mise en valeur du patrimoine juif dans les pays d'Europe.

Historicisme et modernité du patrimoine européen

Historicisme et modernité du patrimoine européen
Author: Jean-Michel Leniaud
Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2007-04-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 2296170471

A travers des cas de projets urbains en Europe aux XIXe et XXe siècles sont examinés les problèmes de priorités financières et politiques, de conflits sociaux et de rivalités d'appropriation patrimoniale, d'enjeux de mémoire et de passions identitaires. L'étude du discours construisant la pensée du fait architectural et urbain démontre l'importance respective de l'histoire et de l'idéologisation de la modernité. Un éclairage sur les enjeux de la protection du patrimoine.

The Routledge Dictionary of Anthropologists

The Routledge Dictionary of Anthropologists
Author: Gerald Gaillard
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2004-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1134585802

This detailed and comprehensive guide provides biographical information on the most influential and significant figures in world anthropology, from the birth of the discipline in the nineteenth century to the present day. Each of the fifteen chapters focuses on a national tradition or school of thought, outlining its central features and placing the anthropologists within their intellectual contexts. Fully indexed and cross-referenced, The Routledge Dictionary of Anthropologists will prove indispensable for students of anthropology.

Economics and Cognitive Science

Economics and Cognitive Science
Author: Paul Bourgine
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2014-06-28
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1483294897

Economics, dealing with mental processes of decision makers is part of cognitive science; conversely, cognitive science, faced with constraints on information processing, is part of economics. In July 1990, the Cecoia 2 conference was organised in Paris to further explore the connections between the two. The papers presented in this volume illustrate this truly interdisciplinary research intertwining social and cognitive sciences. Three main topics are represented: agent's mental representation when facing complex uncertainty; agent's computational constraints leading to bounded rationality; agent's learning and evolution in an imperfectly known environment.

Difficult Heritage

Difficult Heritage
Author: Sharon Macdonald
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 555
Release: 2010-10-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134111053

How does a city and a nation deal with a legacy of perpetrating atrocity? How are contemporary identities negotiated and shaped in the face of concrete reminders of a past that most wish they did not have? Difficult Heritage focuses on the case of Nuremberg – a city whose name is indelibly linked with Nazism – to explore these questions and their implications. Using an original in-depth research, using archival, interview and ethnographic sources, it provides not only fascinating new material and perspectives, but also more general original theorizing of the relationship between heritage, identity and material culture. The book looks at how Nuremberg has dealt with its Nazi past post-1945. It focuses especially, but not exclusively, on the city’s architectural heritage, in particular, the former Nazi party rally grounds, on which the Nuremburg rallies were staged. The book draws on original sources, such as city council debates and interviews, to chart a lively picture of debate, action and inaction in relation to this site and significant others, in Nuremberg and elsewhere. In doing so, Difficult Heritage seeks to highlight changes over time in the ways in which the Nazi past has been dealt with in Germany, and the underlying cultural assumptions, motivations and sources of friction involved. Whilst referencing wider debates and giving examples of what was happening elsewhere in Germany and beyond, Difficult Heritage provides a rich in-depth account of this most fascinating of cases. It also engages in comparative reflection on developments underway elsewhere in order to contextualize what was happening in Nuremberg and to show similarities to and differences from the ways in which other ‘difficult heritages’ have been dealt with elsewhere. By doing so, the author offers an informed perspective on ways of dealing with difficult heritage, today and in the future, discussing innovative museological, educational and artistic practice.

Historical journey in a linguistic archipelago

Historical journey in a linguistic archipelago
Author: Émilie Aussant
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2020-12-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3961102937

This volume offers a selection of papers presented during the 14th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XIV, Paris, 2017). Part I brings together studies dealing with descriptive concepts. First examined is the notion of “accidens” in Latin grammar and its Greek counterparts. Other papers address questions with a strong echo in today’s linguistics: localism and its revival in recent semantics and syntax, the origin of the term “polysemy” and its adoption through Bréal, and the difficulties attending the description of prefabs, idioms and other “fixed expressions”. This first part also includes studies dealing with representations of linguistic phenomena, whether these concern the treatment of local varieties (so-called patois) in French research, or the import and epistemological function of spatial representations in descriptions of linguistic time. Or again, now taking the word “representation” literally, the visual display of grammatical relations, in the form of the first syntactic diagrams. Part II presents case studies which involve wider concerns, of a social nature: the “from below” approach to the history of Chinese Pidgin English underlines the social roles of speakers and the diversity of speech situations, while the scrutiny of Lhomond’s Latin and French textbooks demonstrates the interplay of pedagogical practice, cross-linguistic comparison and descriptive innovation. An overview of early descriptions of Central Australian languages reveals a whole spectrum of humanist to positivist and antihumanist stances during the colonial age. An overarching framework is also at play in the anthropological perspective championed by Meillet, whose socially and culturally oriented semantics is shown to live on in Benveniste. The volume ends with a paper on Trần Đức Thảo, whose work is an original synthesis between phenomenology and Marxist semiology, wielded against the “idealistic” doctrine of Saussure.

Visual Time

Visual Time
Author: Keith Moxey
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2013-06-17
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0822395932

Visual Time offers a rare consideration of the idea of time in art history. Non-Western art histories currently have an unprecedented prominence in the discipline. To what extent are their artistic narratives commensurate with those told about Western art? Does time run at the same speed in all places? Keith Moxey argues that the discipline of art history has been too attached to interpreting works of art based on a teleological categorization—demonstrating how each work influences the next as part of a linear sequence—which he sees as tied to Western notions of modernity. In contrast, he emphasizes how the experience of viewing art creates its own aesthetic time, where the viewer is entranced by the work itself rather than what it represents about the historical moment when it was created. Moxey discusses the art, and writing about the art, of modern and contemporary artists, such as Gerard Sekoto, Thomas Demand, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Cindy Sherman, as well as the sixteenth-century figures Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Albrecht Dürer, Matthias Grünewald, and Hans Holbein. In the process, he addresses the phenomenological turn in the study of the image, its application to the understanding of particular artists, the ways verisimilitude eludes time in both the past and the present, and the role of time in nationalist accounts of the past.