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The Line: committing and commemorating ‘the crime without a name’
2018
This article analyses Gina Shmukler’s verbatim play The Line (2012) and argues for another look at the testimonies captured from witnesses, survivors and perpetrators of the violence targeting foreign and perceived as foreign persons in South Africa that escalated in 2008 and in 2015. It is a narrative analysis of the play that uses Gregory H. Stanton’s Ten Stages of Genocide model and the United Nations Convention on Genocide to investigate the theatrical representation of the violence. This account argues that the events that are captured in the play and that inspired it should be reconsidered as acts of genocide. In the absence of an official acknowledgement of the events as genocide, pe…
Dal kētos al sēnmurv? Mutazioni iconografiche e transizioni simboliche del kētos dall’Antichità al Medioevo (secolo XIII)
2016
Using literary and iconographic sources the paper discusses the image of kētos from Antiquity to Middle Ages. The kētos, according with Greek literature, was used in the myths of both Perseus and Andromeda and Heracles and Hesione. The archaic images of the sea-monster are identifiable on Corinthian vases, on which we have only heads of leonine form. From 5th century the classical type of kētos is distinguished from all other Greek sea-monsters by a long neck, fins (also like wings), long muzzle and corrugated upper surface (like a crocodile), and leonine forelegs. Separated from histories of Andromeda and Hesione, the kētos is represented as a mount of marine gods and, especially, Nereides…
Profanación de los cuerpos muertos femeninos
2021
En la historia del arte y de la cultura visual aparecen cuerpos muertos femeninos, habitualmente remarcando su belleza y juventud, sobre los que se ejerce una serie de consideraciones bien distintas a las que merecen los muertos masculinos. Entre ellas la curiosidad científica, el erotismo o la atracción convergen para justificar la exhibición y contemplación de las muertas femeninas. Paralelamente, el imaginario literario ha alimentado mitos sobre el poder que procesaban dichos cuerpos fenecidos en los varones, recalando con el tiempo en los medios de comunicación de masas, especialmente en el cine. Otra vertiente que considerar ha sido la proliferación de fotografías post mortem en donde …
Archive Photography That Forms a Personal and Collective Memory
2021
Personal and family albums created by Latvians in the period from 1939 until the 1950s are placed in a wider social and historical perspective by analyzing its content, as well as the individual intent to create it. This work explores photography album as a tool to organize memories and how historical, personal photography albums serve and interact as evidence of private as well as a public past. The research tries to prove the historical authenticity in two personal albums created by Latvians during the Second World War and the following years – a visual diary illustrating the imprisonment in the Soviet working camp in Siberia and a family album memorializing the way and life of the Latvia…
Quelques réflexions sur les remplois antiques en Limousin au cours du Moyen Âge
2011
Different kinds of antique material were re-used in the Limousin region during the middle ages. In this article the authors will mostly focus on the big ashlars located in the ecclesiastical rural sites. More and more of these specific kinds of spolia are now known. Around 50 sites are identified where they were used in churches or in their surroundings (mostly sarcophagi). In most examples only few pieces were used. Nonetheless, in seven cases those blocks are numerous, and in three of them parts of antique buildings - using monumental ashlars - are incorporated into churches. It is highly probable that the spoiled monuments were mausolea. At least two of them were re-used for a Christian …
Curating Objects from the European Border Zone: The “Lampedusa Refugee Boat”
2019
The cultural politics of the present encourage museums and artists to seek an ethical vision within Europe navigating the knowledge of ongoing mass death at the border. This is one explanation for the interest in objects symbolising present-day irregular border crossing among museum curators, artists, designers and activists. Wooden fishing boats, inflatable dinghies and life jackets appear regularly in exhibitions and installations. This chapter focuses on the meaning of “the Lampedusa boat” and argues that the narrative context within which the boats are exhibited guides the work of imagination that animates the object. While exhibiting the boats carries the critical potential to relocate…
Oetzel, Gespräche' über Herrschaft: Herrscherkritik bei Elisabeth I. von England (1558-1603) (Matthiesen Verlag, 2014)
2016
Review of Lena Oetzel, Gespräche' über Herrschaft: Herrscherkritik bei Elisabeth I. von England (1558-1603) (Husum: Matthiesen Verlag, 2014).
Cruces procesionales y cruces de término. Alcance teológico y social de sus particularidades iconográficas
2018
El reino de Valencia, como otros de la Corona de Aragón y del resto de la Península Ibérica, se mostró especialmente propicio al levantamiento de cruces de término; pero los pocos estudios académicos que les han prestado atención se han detenido en su aspecto estilístico, lo que ha llevado a no pocos investigadores a comparar estas cruces con las de orfebrería. Más allá de su decoración, sin embargo, sus respectivas tipologías iconográficas presentan sustanciales diferencias. La ubicación de las cruces de término, fuera del ámbito eclesiástico, su medio material y, sobre todo, su función, podrían haber determinado las diferencias iconográficas respecto a otras cruces y, por ende, las implic…
Missions and World Civilizations
2016
Missions and World Civilizations
Las dos mitades de Jacob Riis. Un estudio comparativo de su obra literaria y fotográfica
2014
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