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Materiality and atmosphere. Two American beat artists painting Europe
2019
The article discusses how European painting heavily influenced two American Beat painters in the post war years. Post-war American painting was often concerned with breaking away from traditional iconography and style, but Jay DeFeo and Joan Brown chose to engage with European traditional painting. Both artists travelled to Europe early in their careers and both declare an intense interest in European painters, paintings, and architecture. In Brown’s case particularly the works of Goya, Velazquez, and Rembrandt become scrutinized and remodeled in her pasty abstract style. De Feo, on her hand, states a particular interest in how the European cities’ distinct colors, lights and textures inspi…
ROMAN DACIA IN THE DIGITAL ERA
2020
The study of Roman Dacia in the last two centuries produced thousands of articles, studies, monographs and proceedings and revealed at least 3800 archaeological sites from the short period of existence of the province between 106-270 AD. The large quantity of material evidence – epigraphic, figurative, ceramic, architectural and numismatic – is constantly growing due to the numerous rescue excavations in the last two decades. The emergence of digital humanities and the possibilities of digital era created new perspectives in cataloguing, collecting and presenting archaeological big data. The article presents some of the major results of digital humanities focusing on the digitization of the…
Una mañana en Oporto : apuntes de un viaje en la arquitectura de Álvaro Siza
2023
Per un architetto il viaggio è una impareggiabile occasione di studio, poiché permette di compiere una reale esperienza dello spazio, consente di valutare con i propri sensi ciò che altrimenti sarebbe sempre mediato dal disegno, dalla fotografia, dai testi o da altre rappresentazioni. La visita ad alcune architetture di Álvaro Siza, diviene occasione per una analisi critica e consente di estrarre alcune lezioni sul rapporto con i luoghi, sui caratteri dello spazio, sulla materialità, sull’impiego della luce, sul valore del dettaglio.
Slikovnica kao predmet
2019
Based on recent studies on materiality, picturebook research, and cognitive studies, this paper investigates how children may perceive picturebooks as objects and their material properties. In this regard, we emphasise three dimensions of picturebooks as objects and relate them to developmental stages. The first dimension concerns the materials the picturebooks are composed of, such as paper, cardboard, wood, plastics, and cloth. The second dimension refers to the type of book, e.g. hardbacks, sets of cardboard sheets, fanfold books, pop-up books, and even hybrid objects such as books which are toys at the same time. Finally, this study focuses on the types of actions that are associated wi…
Disassembling the classroom – an ethnographic approach to the materiality of education
2012
The ethnography of education is challenged by the materiality of the classroom. Ethnographic accounts of school lessons mostly highlight language and interaction and offer no suitable methodology for researching objects and their role in the classroom. Moreover, objects are part of complex and interwoven assemblages involving human actors, practices and things. As such, their contribution to human practices often remains unnoticed in the background of routine activities. In order to make the materiality of practice available to ethnographic observation, we thus have to analytically disassemble these assemblages. An ethnographic approach that draws on practice theory and concepts developed i…
The Materiality of the Imagined Family
2012
Memories, forgetting and silences in the museographical proposal of the memory center “La Perla”
2019
El artículo analiza el proceso de selección y consagración de memorias en un caso particular: el del Espacio para la Memoria que funciona en lo que durante la última dictadura en Argentina (1976-1983) fue el Centro Clandestino de Detención (CCD) conocido como “La Perla” en la provincia de Córdoba, Argentina. El mismo analiza las funciones que fue asumiendo el lugar: CCD, cuartel militar, espacio de memorias, y los valores que diferentes grupos y el estado le adjudicaron a lo largo de su historia. A partir de allí, aborda las propuestas elaboradas para su institucionalización como espacio de memoria, la elaboración del guion del museo de sitio y las muestras exhibidas, profundizando en el ju…
Remembering and Forgetting, Discovering and Cherishing
2018
The events of the Second World War left considerable material remains in Finnish Lapland, ranging from the remnants of structures that were destroyed in the 1944–45 Lapland War, through to small, portable objects connected to soldiers, prisoners of war and civilians. These material remains have variously been saved and cherished by survivors and their families, disregarded as ‘war junk’, ‘discovered’ by hobbyists exploring the landscape, amassed and exchanged by private collectors, and accessioned into official museum collections. These various processes represent transformations of material culture to take on various meanings and embodiments, depending on the different individuals and orga…
Un códice facticio de cancioneros manuscritos del siglo XVI
2020
Se ofrece un completo análisis codicológico del manuscrito 2763 de la Biblioteca Universitaria de Salamanca. Se trata del volumen denominado SA10 en el sistema de siglas propuesto por Brian Dutton (1990-91), un códice que agrupa dos cancioneros manuscritos independientes de poesía medieval, fechables en la primera mitad del siglo XVI. El estudio exhaustivo de la estricta materialidad del códice se completa con el recuento y análisis de las obras y autores seleccionados, así como de su disposición y secuenciación. Los resultados permiten formular una hipótesis argumentada acerca de la génesis del volumen y de su complejo proceso de copia y transmisión. A complete codicological analysis of ma…
Skulls, Tree Bark, Fossils
2021
AbstractStudies of material objects in the field of memory studies have followed diverse epistemological and disciplinary trajectories, but their shared characteristic has been the questioning of philosophical assumptions concerning human relations with inanimate things and lower-level organic objects, such as plants, within the Aristotelian hierarchy of beings. Rather than accept at face value their categorizations as passive or deficient in comparison to the human subject, critical scholarship has reformulated the place and role of nonhuman entities in culture. This essay examines the nexus of materiality and memory in the work of the French philosopher and art historian Georges Didi-Hube…