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Public Monuments

Art in Political Bondage 1870-1997

By: Sergiusz Michalski

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Public Monuments

Art in Political Bondage 1870-1997

By: Sergiusz Michalski

Public monuments to significant individuals or to political concepts are all too familiar. But the notions underlying them are not so obvious. Sergiusz Michalski traces the history of the public monument from the 1870s, when erecting them became an artistic, political and social pre-occupation, to today when the distinction between public monuments and public sculpture is increasingly blurred. The author shows how, in its golden age – up until 1914 – the public monument served the purpose of both education and legitimization. The French Third Republic, for example, envisaged the monument as a symbol of bourgeois meritocracy. In more recent decades, the public monument has been charged with the task of commemorating and symbolizing one of humankind's most terrible catastrophes - the Holocaust. Today, although the artistic failure of countless European war memorials has signaled the beginning of the demise of the public monument in the West, it continues to flourish elsewhere, commemorating despotic leaders from Kim Il Sung to Saddam Hussein.

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1780232357

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Art in Political Bondage 1870-1997

By: Sergiusz Michalski

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Reformation and the Visual Arts

The Protestant Image Question in Western and Eastern Europe

By: Sergiusz Michalski

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Reformation and the Visual Arts

The Protestant Image Question in Western and Eastern Europe

By: Sergiusz Michalski

Covering a vast geographical and chronological span, and bringing new and exciting material to light, The Reformation and the Visual Arts provides a unique overvie of religious images and iconoclasm, starting with the consequences of the Byzantine image controversy and ending with the Eastern Orthodox churches of the nineteenth century. The author argues that the image question played a large role in the divisions within European Protestantism and was intricately connected with the Eucharist controversy. He analyses the positions of the major Protestant reformers - Luther, Zwingli, Calvin and Karlstadt - on the legitimacy of religious paintings and investigates iconoclasm both as a form of religious and political protest and as a complex set of mock-revolutionary rites and denigration rituals. The book also contains new research on relations between Protestant iconoclasm and the extreme icon-worship of the Eastern Orthodox churches, and provides a brief discussion of Eastern protestantizing sects, especially in Russia.

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1134921020

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9781134921027

New Objectivity

Painting, Graphic Art and Photography in Weimar Germany 1919-1933

By: Sergiusz Michalski

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New Objectivity

Painting, Graphic Art and Photography in Weimar Germany 1919-1933

By: Sergiusz Michalski

Drawing on new research from local archives as well as reinterpretations of published literature,Power and the Peopledescribes how England remained governable between 1525 and 1640, despite the wars, famine, epidemics, and dynastic and religious crises of the period. The book surveys the mechanisms of authority at various levels, from the street and alehouse to the manor and the royal court. Maintaining order was a difficult challenge, given that England had no standing army or professional police, and Alison Wall investigates everything from the roles of village constables to the social cohesiveness that came from civic celebrations and participatory politics. Her book provides students with a rich perspective on the social world and political culture of early modern England.

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3822823724

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Spider

By: Katarzyna Michalski,Sergiusz Michalski

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Spider

By: Katarzyna Michalski,Sergiusz Michalski

Both fascinating and frightening, the spider has a rich symbolic presence in the imagination. At once a representative of death, due to its fangs and dangerous poison, the spider can also represent life and creation, because of its intricate web and females who carry sacs of thousands of tiny eggs. In this wide-ranging book, Katarzyna and Sergiusz Michalskiinvestigate the natural history and cultural significance of the spider. From ancient Greek myth to Dostoyevsky, the authors explore the appearance of spiders in literature and their depictions in art, paying particular attention to the sculptures of Louise Bourgeois. Horror stories, science fiction, folklore, and children’s tales are also investigated, as well as the affliction of arachnophobia and the procedures used to cure it. The association of the spider with women or mothers is explored alongside the role of the spider metaphor in Freudian and Jungian psychoanalysis, and the Michalskis’ in-depth account concludes with a look at the unfavorable portrayal of the sinister spider in film. A thorough and engaging look at the natural and cultural history of the spider, this book will appeal to anybody who admires or fears this delicate yet dangerous creature.

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1861898886

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9781861898883

New Objectivity

Painting, Graphic Art and Photography in Weimar Germany 1919-1933

By: Sergiusz Michalski

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Painting, Graphic Art and Photography in Weimar Germany 1919-1933

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Reformation and the Visual Arts

The Protestant Image Question in Western and Eastern Europe

By: Sergiusz Michalski

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The Protestant Image Question in Western and Eastern Europe

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Public Monuments

Public Monuments

Public Monuments

Public Monuments

Reformation and the Visual Arts

Reformation and the Visual Arts

New Objectivity

New Objectivity

Spider

Spider

New Objectivity

New Objectivity

Reformation and the Visual Arts

Reformation and the Visual Arts

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