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Resounding Images

Author : Susan Boynton
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782503554372
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book Resounding Images written by Susan Boynton and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study brings together for the first time scholars of Christian, Islamic and Jewish art and music to reconstruct the complex intersection between art, architecture and sound in the medieval world. Case studies explore how ambient and programmatic sound, including chant and speech, and its opposite, silence, interacted with objects and the built environment to create the multisensory experiences that characterized medieval life. While sound is probably the most difficult component of the past to reconstruct, it was also the most pervasive, whether planned or unplanned, instrumental or vocal, occasional or ambient. Acoustics were central to the perception of performance; images in liturgical manuscripts were embedded in a context of song and ritual actions; and architecture provided both visual and spatial frameworks for music and sound. Resounding Images brings together specialists in the history of art, architecture, and music to explore the manifold roles of sound in the experience of medieval art. Moving beyond the field of musical iconography, the contributors reconsider the relationship between sound, space and image in the long Middle Ages."--

Icons of Sound

Author : Bissera V. Pentcheva
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000207447
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Icons of Sound written by Bissera V. Pentcheva and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Icons of Sound: Voice, Architecture, and Imagination in Medieval Art brings together art history and sound studies to offer new perspectives on medieval churches and cathedrals as spaces where the perception of the visual is inherently shaped by sound. The chapters encompass a wide geographic and historical range, from the fifth to the fifteenth century, and from Armenia and Byzantium to Venice, Rome, and Santiago de Compostela. Contributors offer nuanced explorations of the intangible sonic aura produced in these places by the ritual music and harness the use of digital technology to reconstruct historical aural environments. Rooted in a decade-long interdisciplinary research project at Stanford University, Icons of Sound expands our understanding of the inherently intertwined relationship between medieval chant and liturgy, the acoustics of architectural spaces, and their visual aesthetics. Together, the contributors provide insights that are relevant across art history, sound studies, musicology, and medieval studies.

Resounding Truth

Author : Jeremy Begbie
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 0801026954
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Resounding Truth written by Jeremy Begbie and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world-renowned scholar and musician helps Christians respond with theological discernment to music.

Postcolonising the Medieval Image

Author : Eva Frojmovic
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351867237
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonising the Medieval Image written by Eva Frojmovic and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcolonial theories have transformed literary, historical and cultural studies over the past three decades. Yet the study of medieval art and visualities has, in general, remained Eurocentric in its canon and conservative in its approaches. 'Postcolonising', as the eleven essays in this volume show, entails active intervention into the field of medieval art history and visual studies through a theoretical reframing of research. This approach poses and elicits new research questions, and tests how concepts current in postcolonial studies - such as diaspora and migration, under-represented artistic cultures, accented art making, displacement, intercultural versus transcultural, hybridity, presence/absence - can help medievalists to reinvigorate the study of art and visuality. Postcolonial concepts are deployed in order to redraft the canon of medieval art, thereby seeking to build bridges between medievalist and modernist communities of scholars. Among the varied topics explored in the volume are the appropriation of Roman iconography by early medieval Scandinavian metalworkers, multilingualism and materiality in Anglo-Saxon culture, the circulation and display of Islamic secular ceramics on Pisan churches, cultural negotiation by Jewish minorities in Central Europe and the Iberian peninsula, Holy Land maps and medieval imaginative geography, and the uses of Thomas Becket in the colonial imaginary of the Plantagenet court.

Where Sight Meets Sound

Author : Emily Zazulia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197551939
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Where Sight Meets Sound written by Emily Zazulia and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main function of western musical notation is incidental: it prescribes and records sound. But during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, notation began to take on an aesthetic life all its own. In the early fifteenth century, a musician might be asked to sing a line slower, faster, or starting on a different pitch than what is written. By the end of the century composers had begun tasking singers with solving elaborate puzzles to produce sounds whose relationship to the written notes is anything but obvious. These instructions, which appear by turns unnecessary and confounding, challenge traditional conceptions of music writing that understand notation as an incidental consequence of the desire to record sound. This book explores innovations in late-medieval music writing as well as how modern scholarship on notation has informedsometimes erroneouslyideas about the premodern era. Drawing on both musical and music-theoretical evidence, this book reframes our understanding of late-medieval musical notation as a system that was innovative, cutting-edge, and dynamicone that could be used to generate music, not just preserve it.

Terry Adkins: Resounding

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781646570058
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Terry Adkins: Resounding written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-21 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From sound art to sculpture, an appraisal of the multimedia art of Terry Adkins, featuring items from his own collection This publication highlights the work of prolific American sculptor and performance artist Terry Adkins (1953-2014), who synthesized a deep interest in history with an improvisational approach to art-making, producing an expansive body of work that often reflects on the legacies of unsung figures in American culture. Terry Adkins: Resoundingtraces the artist's development over his more than three-decade career with nearly 50 works across a variety of mediums including sound, sculpture, video and printmaking. The book includes rarely shown examples from Adkins's early work alongside some of his most celebrated pieces, bringing together selections from several acclaimed installations for the first time since their debuts. In addition, the catalog presents a range of items that the artist collected, including books, musical instruments and objects from various artistic traditions. This collection gives new insight into the breadth of Adkins' literary, musical and visual influences.

Releasing the Image

Author : Jacques Khalip
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804761388
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Releasing the Image written by Jacques Khalip and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From painting to poetry to new media technologies, this book theorizes "the image" beyond the logic of representationalism and provokes new ways of engaging topics of embodiment, agency, history, and technology.

Architecture and Affect in the Middle Ages

Author : Paul Binski
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520402995
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Architecture and Affect in the Middle Ages written by Paul Binski and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-10-29 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did people living in the Middle Ages respond to spectacular buildings, such as the Gothic cathedrals? While contemporary scholarship places a large emphasis on the emotional content of Western medieval figurative art, the emotion of architecture has largely gone undiscussed. In a radical new approach, Architecture and Affect in the Middle Ages explores the relationship between medieval buildings and the complexity of experience they engendered. Paul Binski examines long-standing misconceptions about the way viewers responded to medieval architecture across Western Europe and in Byzantine and Arabic culture between late antiquity and the end of the medieval period. He emphasizes the importance of the experience itself within these built environments, essentially places of action, space, and structure but also, crucially, of sound and emotion.

Resounding Mridangam

Author : Erickavu N Sunil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Resounding Mridangam written by Erickavu N Sunil and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resounding Mridangam explores the nuances of Mridangam, the majestic South-Indian drum, an inevitable accompaniment in Carnatic classical music. The book is a beautiful journey in time and history. It is designed for a wider readership comprising music students as their academic source at universities across the globe, performing musicians, followers of Indian & Western classical music, and anyone who wishes to gain interdisciplinary knowledge in music. Analysis of the physics of Mridangam would enthuse readers with a scientific bent of mind. It covers a comparative analysis of the various music genres to appreciate synergy and synthesis. The book also contains unheard vignettes of 200+ Mridangam masters. Resounding Mridangam is divided into eight chapters. Chapter 1: The South Indian Classical Music Chapter 2: The Musical Instruments Chapter 3: Mridangam - Evolution & History Chapter 4: Bani - The Playing Traditions Chapter 5: Mridangam - The Structure & Components Chapter 6: The Physics of Mridangam Chapter 7: The Tala Systems Chapter 8: The Great Masters The first two chapters set the book's tone wherein the readers are introduced to Indian Classical Music's spectacular world. These chapters cover the genesis and evolution of Indian classical music and dwell into the two major Indian music genres: the Carnatic and the Hindustani. The readers are given an overview of the Indian classical music instruments from the archaic to the contemporary ones. Chapters 3 and 4 cover the history and evolution of Mridangam. The playing traditions (Bani) are narrated in great detail. These chapters will enrich the readers with the rich history and fine traditions of Mridangam playing. Chapters 5 and 6 take the readers through the anatomy and physics behind Mridangam. The readers are given the scientific aspects of this instrument, which makes Mridangam a unique one among the other classical percussion instruments. Chapter 7 takes the readers to the Tala systems (rhythmic frameworks) in Carnatic music. All Tala systems in Carnatic music are explained in detail, which would be of special interest to all music students. The last chapter is a tribute to the great masters of Mridangam on whose guidance and contributions this instrument has evolved to be a ubiquitous part of the tradition of classical music. This chapter covers unheard vignettes of 217 Mridangam masters of great reputation who classical music lovers are revering. The chapter covers information that invokes the interest of all classes of readers. Resounding Mridangam is an earnest endeavour chronicling the king of percussion instruments - the Mridangam. This book appeals to all music lovers to get a nuanced perspective of Mridangam and its fitment in the Indian Classical music milieu. It will serve as a definitive handbook of Mridangam. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Erickavu N. Sunil is an A-Grade South-Indian percussion artist in Mridangam at the All India Radio, the national public radio broadcaster of India. During the three decades of his performing career, Sunil has performed alongside many maestros, and his talent has been recognised with several awards and accolades. He left behind a successful corporate career in Information Technology to spend more time exploring, researching and understanding music. Sunil has put to best use his background in science while researching for Resounding Mridangam which is sure to leave music lovers enthralled. Prof Trichy Sankaran, the world-renowned percussion virtuoso, has written the foreword to this book.

A Dance

Author : Alexander Barabanov
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409019853
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book A Dance written by Alexander Barabanov and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Barabanov, a key figure in the Russian dance world, has sifted through many thousands of photographs of dance to accumulate an extraordinary collection of pictures, ranging from historical ballet photographs to shocking avant-garde imagery. This work has been collected and edited to form an astonishing sequence. Rather than being assembled as an anthology, the sequence has in fact been 'choreographed' so the book is constructed to form a dance in ten movements. It begins with creation myths, follows erotic engagements and leads to a series of mass movements in the modern age. It includes such gems as the young Nureyev's first performance with the Kirov and Baryshinikov's debut as well as images with brutal reference to Abu Ghraib or the march of fascism.

Blurred Boundaries and Deceptive Dichotomies in Pre-Modern Texts and Images

Author : Dafna Nissim
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111244105
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Blurred Boundaries and Deceptive Dichotomies in Pre-Modern Texts and Images written by Dafna Nissim and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays focuses on the way blurred boundaries are represented in pre-modern texts and visual art and how they were received and perceived by their audiences: readers, listeners, and viewers. According to the current understanding that opposing cognitive categories that are so common in modern thinking do not apply to pre-modern mentalities, we argue that individuals in medieval and pre-modern societies did not necessarily consider sacred and secular, male and female, real and fictional, and opposing emotions as absolute dichotomies. The contributors to the present collection examine a wide range of cultural artifacts – literary texts, wall paintings, sculptures, jewelry, manuscript illustrations, and various objects as to what they reflect regarding the dominant perceptual system – the network of beliefs, worldviews, presumptions, values, and norms of viewing/reading/hearing different from modern epistemology strongly predicated on the binary nature of things and people. The essays suggest that analyzing pre-modern cultural works of art or literature in light of reception theory can lead to a better understanding of how those cultural products influenced individuals and impacted their thoughts and actions.

Ma and Pa's Fun and Dark Shadows

Author : Janet L. Vick
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300804661
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Ma and Pa's Fun and Dark Shadows written by Janet L. Vick and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: a great poetry book of funny life situations, real and imagined to entertain all age groups

In-Between Fiction and Non-Fiction

Author : Michelangelo Paganopoulos
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527525694
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book In-Between Fiction and Non-Fiction written by Michelangelo Paganopoulos and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume invites the reader to join in with the recent focus on subjectivity and self-reflection, as the means of understanding and engaging with the social and historical changes in the world through storytelling. It examines the symbiosis between anthropology and fiction, on the one hand, by looking at various ways in which the two fields co-emerge in a fruitful manner, and, on the other, by re-examining their political, aesthetic, and social relevance to world history. Following the intellectual crisis of the 1970s, anthropology has been criticized for losing its ethnographic authority and vocation. However, as a consequence of this, ethnographic scope has opened towards more subjective and self-reflexive forms of knowledge and representations, such as the crossing of the boundaries between autobiography and ethnography. The collection of essays re-introduces the importance of authorship in relationship to readership, making a ground-breaking move towards the study of fictional texts and images as cultural, sociological, and political reflections of the time and place in which they were produced. In this way, the contributors here contribute to the widening of the ethnographic scope of contemporary anthropology. A number of the chapters were presented as papers in two conferences organised by the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, entitled “Arts and aesthetics in a globalising world” (2012), and at the University of Exeter, entitled “Symbiotic Anthropologies” (2015). Each chapter offers a unique method of working in the grey area between and beyond the categories of fiction and non-fiction, while creatively reflecting upon current methodological, ethical, and theoretical issues, in anthropology and cultural studies. This is an important book for undergraduate and post-graduate students of anthropology, cultural and media studies, art theory, and creative writing, as well as academic researchers in these fields.

Holy War, Martyrdom, and Terror

Author : Philippe Buc
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812290976
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Holy War, Martyrdom, and Terror written by Philippe Buc and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holy War, Martyrdom, and Terror examines the ways that Christian theology has shaped centuries of conflict from the Jewish-Roman War of late antiquity through the First Crusade, the French Revolution, and up to the Iraq War. By isolating one factor among the many forces that converge in war—the essential tenets of Christian theology—Philippe Buc locates continuities in major episodes of violence perpetrated over the course of two millennia. Even in secularized or explicitly non-Christian societies, such as the Soviet Union of the Stalinist purges, social and political projects are tied to religious violence, and religious conceptual structures have influenced the ways violence is imagined, inhibited, perceived, and perpetrated. The patterns that emerge from this sweeping history upend commonplace assumptions about historical violence, while contextualizing and explaining some of its peculiarities. Buc addresses the culturally sanctioned logic that might lead a sane person to kill or die on principle, traces the circuitous reasoning that permits contradictory political actions, such as coercing freedom or pardoning war atrocities, and locates religious faith at the backbone of nationalist conflict. He reflects on the contemporary American ideology of war—one that wages violence in the name of abstract notions such as liberty and world peace and that he reveals to be deeply rooted in biblical notions. A work of extraordinary breadth, Holy War, Martyrdom, and Terror connects the ancient past to the troubled present, showing how religious ideals of sacrifice and purification made violence meaningful throughout history.

Remembering the Reformation

Author : Declan Marmion
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506423280
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Remembering the Reformation written by Declan Marmion and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic unfolding of events after Martin Luther’s revolutionary act led to the ultimate, and seemingly irreparable, fissure with Roman Catholicism: excommunication and schism. From the point of that rupture, up to and including most of the 20th century, the history of theological and ecclesial readings of Luther has been controlled largely by a rubric assuming the inevitability of fracture and the portrayal of Luther as a veritable bête noire of Catholic history and theology. Remembering the Reformation enters into this contested history and pursues a more nuanced and considered reading of Luther’s relationship with the Catholic tradition, from his Augustinian roots and medieval training to his reading of scripture and investigations of ecclesiology, as well as his continued relevance and challenge to Catholic theology today. An international consortium of scholars, Catholic and Protestant, contribute to this volume and provide a thoughtful, textured reimagining of Luther for an ecumenical future. Marking the 500th anniversary of the inauguration of Luther’s movement for reform, this volume aims to bring Catholics, Protestants, and Evangelicals into conversation in a shared, but distinct, theological space.

As Night Falls

Author : Avner Wishnitzer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108832148
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book As Night Falls written by Avner Wishnitzer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and vivid picture of the perils and promises of nocturnal life in cities in the early modern Middle East.

The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Western Art

Author : Yael Kaduri
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190498773
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Western Art written by Yael Kaduri and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Western Art examines, under one umbrella, different kinds of analogies, mutual influences, integrations and collaborations of audio and visual in different art forms. The book represents state-of-the-art case studies with key figures of modern thinking constituting a foundation for discussion. It thus emphasizes avant-garde and experimental tendencies, while analyzing them in historical, theoretical, and critical frameworks. The book is organized around three core thematic sections. The first, Sights and Sounds, concentrates on the interaction between the experience of seeing and the experience of hearing. Examples of painting, classic and digital animation, video art, choreography, and music performance are examined in this section. Sound, Space, and Matter explores experimental forms emanating from the expansion of the concepts of music and space to include environmental sounds, vibrating frequencies, silence, language, human habitats, the human body, and more. The reader will find here an analysis of different manifestations of this aesthetic shift in sound art, fine art, contemporary dance, multimedia theatre, and cinema. The last section, Performance, Performativity, and Text, shows how new light shed by modernism and the avant-garde on the performative aspect of music have led it - together with sound, voice, and text - to become active in new ways in postmodern and contemporary art creation. In addition to examples of real-time performing arts such as music theatre, experimental theatre, and dance, it includes case studies that demonstrate performativity in fine art, visual poetry, short film, and cinema. Sitting at the cutting edge of the field of music and visual arts, the book offers a unique, at times controversial view of this rapidly evolving area of study. Artists, curators, students and scholars will find here a panoramic view of cutting-edge discourse in the field, by an international roster of scholars and practitioners.