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Floating Island to Travel Around Manhattan Island, 1970/2005 Produced by Minetta Brook in collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art On view September 17-25, 2005
[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.
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.
The works of William Hogarth, currently the subject of Tate Britain's 'Hogarth' exhibition, provide an exceptional record of life in Hanoverian England. To complement this major exhibition, we present the biographies of some of his sitters, associates, and well-known figures from the period. Read the lives behind the portraits for a glimpse of Hogarth's world—from charity and politeness to corruption and vice.
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.