Looking Into the Rain: Magic - Moisture - Medium

Barbara Baert

Published by De Gruyter 2022

Looking Into the Rain

Magic - Moisture - Medium

Barbara Baert

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110760620

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About this book

Humankind has a special relationship with rain. The sensory experience of water falling from the heavens evokes feelings ranging from fear to gratitude and has inspired many works of art. Using unique and expertly developed art-historical case studies – from prehistoric cave paintings up to photography and cinema – this book casts new light on a theme that is both ecological and iconological, both natural and cultural-historical. Barbara Baert’s distinctive prose makes Looking Into the Rain. Magic, Moisture, Medium a profound reading experience, particularly at a moment when disruptions of the harmony among humans, animals, and nature affect all of us and the entire planet.

Barbara Baert is Professor of Art History at KU Leuven. She teaches in the field of Iconology, Art Theory & Analysis, and Medieval Art. Her work links knowledge and questions from the history of ideas, cultural anthropology and philosophy, and shows great sensitivity to cultural archetypes and their symptoms in the visual arts.

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Barbara Baert is Professor of Art History at KU Leuven. She teaches in the field of Iconology, Art Theory & Analysis, and Medieval Art. Her work links knowledge and questions from the history of ideas, cultural anthropology and philosophy, and shows great sensitivity to cultural archetypes and their symptoms in the visual arts.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Content Publicly Available Download PDF	6
1. Prologue. Why Rain? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
2. Graphemes. Cave and Clay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
3. Towards a Hermeneutic of Cave Spaces Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
4. Rain-Therapies and Aby Warburg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
5. From Zettelkast 6 to Mithras Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
6. Environment and the Participation Model Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
7. Old and New Abstractions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
8. Bilderatlas. Rain-Saints and Folk-Art – By Julia van Rosmalen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
9. Drawing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
10. Canvassing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
11. Oculi. Danaë and the Uncanny Space Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
12. One cannot escape the wetscape. Rain and Woody Allen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
13. Epilogue. A life of the ‘it’ in it rains Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Index nominum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Image Credits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Art history, culture studies, visual studies.
Pages
- Main content: 235
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 40
- Coloured Illustrations: 46
Keywords: Cultural history; art history; rain.

eBook

Published: February 7, 2022
ISBN: 9783110760620

Paperback

Published: February 21, 2022
ISBN: 9783110726848