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[The Western World's] thinking about itself was formative for modern notions of the divisons of the world. Most European surveys of other civilizations, ...translated the cultures and artifacts of other continents into examples of past European civilizations and created metaphoric correspondences to make the strange familiar in terms of the known. Scholarly thinking now increasingly questions the binaries associated with East and West to recognize the way that these heuristic oppositions required the inevitable contrast between the Americas and Europe on the one hand, and the Levant, India, China, Japan, and Formosa on the other.
This database and image library was compiled by the Colin McCahon Research and Publication Trust. It is published by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. The research project has been supported by the McCahon family, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Rutherford Trust, Creative New Zealand: Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa, Jenny Gibbs, Alan Gibbs. The art of Colin McCahon (1919-1987) has been difficult to appreciate in its full range and depth. So few of his widely dispersed works have been reproduced in colour. It is our hope that this database, with its wealth of images, will be a significant aid in this regard.
Andrea Alciato's Emblematum liber or Book of Emblems had enormous influence and popularity in the 16th and 17th centuries. It is a collection of 212 Latin emblem poems, each consisting of a motto (a proverb or other short enigmatic expression), a picture, and an epigrammatic text. Alciato's book was first published in 1531, and was expanded in various editions during the author's lifetime. It began a craze for emblem poetry that lasted for several centuries. We use the Latin text and images from an important edition of 1621 and we give a translation into English.
Bewußtes Distanzschaffen zwischen sich und der Außenwelt darf man wohl als Grundakt menschlicher Zivilisation bezeichnen; wird dieser Zwischenraum das Substrat künstlicher Gestaltung, so sind die Vorbedingungen erfüllt, daß dieses Distanzbewußtsein zu einer sozialen Dauerfunktion werden kann, deren Zulänglichkeit oder Versagen als orientierendes geistiges Instrument eben das Schicksal der menschlichen Kultur bedeutet.
Digital facsimiles of complete manuscripts, scanned directly from the originals This site provides access to over 80 early manuscripts now in institutions associated with the University of Oxford. Please read the information about using this website. Between 1995 and 2000 the Early Manuscripts Imaging Project created high resolution digital images from manuscripts which were selected as major treasures from their respective libraries, to create wider availability for originals which may otherwise be too fragile for handling.
Peter Greenaway's film (writing and direction) Nightwatching is about the Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn. Initiated by The Netherlands' Kasander Film Company, Nightwatching is based around the paiting of Rembrandt's most famous picture "Nightwatch". The film's premiere (Venice, September 2007) was accompanied earlier by a special installation Greenaway designed for the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. It was shown next to the actual "Nightwatch" painting and casted some light on the characters portrayed in the famous work.
Hogarth's complex approach was at once topical and journalistic and also one that made frequent reference to elevated artistic subject matter. One indication of this is Hogarth’s use of pictures within his pictures, in particular history paintings. These not only drive the narrative forward but establish a visual correlation between the sophisticated programme of symbols, allusions and gestures employed in Hogarth’s modern moral subjects and that found in history painting itself, then appreciated as the most intellectually and artistically rigorous of all pictorial genres.
London’s unique mixture of districts, communities and activities generated an exceptionally vibrant and diverse urban culture – one that Hogarth depicted and drew upon constantly in his art. Select a location on the map below to view works set in that area:
Witty, satirical, subversive and hugely talented, William Hogarth remains one of the most fascinating and innovative artists from the eighteenth century. This superb exhibition is the most comprehensive showing of the artist’s work in a generation and incorporates the full range of Hogarth’s work.
William Hogarth war ein englischer Maler und Grafiker der mit schneidender Satire die Gesellschaft des 18. Jahrhunderts kommentierte. Die Biographie von Hogarth ist genauso ungewöhnlich wie seine Grafiken.