Image Controversies

Image Controversies
Author: Birgit Mersmann
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2024-06-04
Genre: Art
ISBN: 3110773570

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In many contemporary societies we encounter iconoclasm breaking out with renewed violence. Iconoclastic actions against objects of visual material culture and testimonials of history act as dynamite in the public sphere. They are expressions of political, religious, national, and identity conflicts. Even the freedom of art is threatened by censorship and cancel culture. Based on case studies from different world regions, contemporary iconoclasms in art, media, and cultural heritage are critically analyzed from both a global and an interdisciplinary perspective. Divided into three sections, the book discusses attacks on monuments and memorials, idol disputes in museums and the visual arts, and forms of mediated iconoclasm in contemporary art.

Controversial Images

Controversial Images
Author: Feona Attwood
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2015-12-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1137291990

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Offering a series of case studies of recent media controversies, this collection draws on new perspectives in cultural studies to consider a wide variety of images. The book suggest how we might achieve a more subtle understanding of controversial images and negotiate the difficult terrain of the new media landscape.

Controversies and Interdisciplinarity

Controversies and Interdisciplinarity
Author: Jens Allwood
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2020-10-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9027260753

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Nowadays, the forms assumed by knowledge indicate an unhinging of traditional structures conceived on the model of discipline. Consequently, what was once strictly disciplinary becomes interdisciplinary, what was homogeneous becomes heterogeneous and what was hierarchical becomes heterarchical. When we look for a matrix of interdisciplinarity, that is to say, a primary basis or an essential dimension of all the complex phenomena we are surrounded by, we see the need to break with the disciplinary self-restraint in which, often completely inadvertently, many of us lock ourselves up, remaining anchored to our own competences, ignoring what goes beyond our own sphere of reference. However, interdisciplinarity is still a vague concept and a much demanding practice. It presupposes the continuous search for convergent theoretical perspectives and methodologies, and the definition of common spaces and languages, as well as a true dialogical and open mind of several scholars. From ethics to science, from communication to medicine, from climate change to human evolution the volume Controversies and Interdisciplinarity offers a series of original insights beyond disciplinary fragmentation for a new knowledge model.

The Guadalupan Controversies in Mexico

The Guadalupan Controversies in Mexico
Author: Stafford Poole
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780804752527

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This is the first and only comprehensive work to deal with a relatively unknown facet of Mexican social and religious history, the debates over the historicity of the Guadalupe apparitions and the historical existence of Juan Diego.

Copenhagen 2013 - 100 Years On: Origins, Innovations and Controversies

Copenhagen 2013 - 100 Years On: Origins, Innovations and Controversies
Author: Emilija Kiehl
Publisher: Daimon
Total Pages: 713
Release: 2015-12-25
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 3856309845

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The Nineteenth Triannual Congress of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, from August 18-23, 2013. Copenhagen 2013 – 100 years on: Origins, Innovations and Controversies was the theme, honoring the psychological transformations experienced by C.G. Jung beginning in 1913, while also reflecting upon the evolving world and Jungian Community a century later.

Images in Spite of All

Images in Spite of All
Author: Georges Didi-Huberman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2008-10-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226148165

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Of one and a half million surviving photographs related to Nazi concentration camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers. Images in Spite of All reveals that these rare photos of Auschwitz, taken clandestinely by one of the Jewish prisoners forced to help carry out the atrocities there, were made as a potent act of resistance. Available today because they were smuggled out of the camp and into the hands of Polish resistance fighters, the photographs show a group of naked women being herded into the gas chambers and the cremation of corpses that have just been pulled out. Georges Didi-Huberman’s relentless consideration of these harrowing scenes demonstrates how Holocaust testimony can shift from texts and imaginations to irrefutable images that attempt to speak the unspeakable. Including a powerful response to those who have criticized his interest in these images as voyeuristic, Didi-Huberman’s eloquent reflections constitute an invaluable contribution to debates over the representability of the Holocaust and the status of archival photographs in an image-saturated world.

A Manual of Church History

A Manual of Church History
Author: Heinrich Ernst Ferdinand Guericke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1870
Genre: Church history
ISBN:

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History of the Christian Church

History of the Christian Church
Author: Wilhelm Ernst Möller
Publisher:
Total Pages: 584
Release: 1910
Genre: Church history
ISBN:

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