Published by De Gruyter

Phoenix

Mainzer kunstwissenschaftliche Bibliothek

Edited by: Matthias Müller, Elisabeth Oy-Marra and Gregor Wedekind

ISSN: 2747-9587

e-ISSN 2747-9595

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In der neuen Reihe der Abteilung für Kunstgeschichte der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz erscheinen herausragende kunstwissenschaftliche Monographien und Sammelbände, die an der Abteilung und im Rahmen der angebundenen Forschungsprojekte entstehen. Die Reihe ist benannt nach dem Bronzerelief des Phoenix von Emy Roeder, das 1960 in programmatischer Absicht für den Eingang des neuen, anstelle einer Kriegsruine errichteten Institutsgebäudes angefertigt wurde.

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Book 2021

Revisionen eines Schiffbruchs - Martin Kippenbergers Medusa

Katarina Schorb

Volume 8 in this series

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Martin Kippenberger (1953–1997) is considered one of the outstanding artists of the 1980s and 1990s. One of the artist’s greatest related bodies of work, Medusa, was produced one year before his death. In over 80 works he addresses Theodore Géricault’s narrative painting The Raft of the Medusa (1819). In this critical, historical analysis the body of work is for the first time set within the context of the entire oeuvre, its evolution is extensively traced and Kippenberger's reception of Géricault's salon painting is examined in detail. Medusa illustrates much more complex dimensions than simply the metaphorization of the artist’s personal situation. Kippenberger translates Géricault's painting into the present day and in doing so reviews a shipwreck.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110730173
ISBN:: 9783110730173
ISBN:: 9783110703993
Subject:: Arts
Subject:: Genres
Subject:: Painting
Subject:: Periods
Subject:: 20th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Die Handlungsmacht ästhetischer Objekte

Annika Schlitte, Markus Verne, Gregor Wedekind

Volume 7 in this series

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Aesthetic experiences are basically inconceivable without specific objects. What consequences does this object-relatedness have for the nature of aesthetic experience? To what extent do aesthetic objects also determine how they are experienced? The texts in the book consider their topic on the one hand empirically through examining concrete aesthetic objects from art, popular culture, and religion, but on the other, also by means of historical and theoretical reflections. By examining new adjustments to theory such as post-humanism, actor-network theory, object-oriented rational ontology, and speculative realism, conventional social-constructive explanatory models are transcended in favor of defining the aesthetic as a necessary interplay between object and experience.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110774351
ISBN:: 9783110774351
ISBN:: 9783110702798
Subject:: Arts
Subject:: Arts, general
Subject:: Art Theory
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Gotische Architektur am Mittelrhein

Regionale Vernetzung und überregionaler Anspruch

Hauke Horn, Matthias Müller

Volume 5 in this series

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The Middle Rhein has a high density of sophisticated church buildings and fortified castles from the Middle Ages. The Rhine and its tributaries were one key reason why these structures were built: these bodies of water functioned as a transport network, connecting numerous important cities. The authors of this volume examine Gothic architecture in the Middle Rhine against a backdrop of competition, conflict, networks, and processes of exchange.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110578461
ISBN:: 9783110578461
ISBN:: 9783110577198
Subject:: Architecture and Design
Subject:: Architecture
Subject:: History
Subject:: Arts
Subject:: Periods
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2019

Ein neues Mainz?

Kontroversen um die Gestalt der Stadt nach 1945

Jean-Louis Cohen, Hartmut Frank, Volker Ziegler, Christine Mengin

Volume 4 in this series

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This publication is the result of decades of research on urban planning in Mainz. Marcel Lods was commissioned to plan the reconstruction of the extensively destroyed city. The project, which drew international attention and contemplated extensive alterations to the cityscape, was never implemented. For the first time, this book offers a systematic description of Lods’s plans.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110414806
ISBN:: 9783110414806
ISBN:: 9783110414882
ISBN:: 9783110414707
Subject:: Architecture and Design
Subject:: Architecture
Subject:: History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Pompa e intelletto

Formen der Ordnung und Inszenierung botanischen Wissens im späten Großherzogtum der Medici

Irina Schmiedel

Volume 3 in this series

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By examining the collecting interests and protective practices of Cosimo III de’ Medici, the study reveals the close ties between the arts and natural sciences in the early modern period. A number of previously unpublished sources of images and texts reveal a panorama of botanical splendor and scholarship during the era of the "last Medici" and examine the achievements and boundaries of grand-ducal patronage.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110519969
ISBN:: 9783110519969
ISBN:: 9783110518665
ISBN:: 9783110448153
Subject:: Arts
Subject:: Periods
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Print Only 2016

Blick zurück nach vorn

Neue Forschungen zu Max Slevogt

Gregor Wedekind, Generaldirektion Kulturelles Erbe

Volume 2 in this series

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Together with Max Liebermann and Lovis Corinth, Max Slevogt (1868–1932) ranks as one of the great artists of German Impressionism. This volume takes stock of earlier research perspectives and seeks new insights in a scholarly engagement with the painter’s artistic oeuvre.

ISBN:: 9783110448160
Subject:: Arts
Subject:: Genres
Subject:: Painting
Subject:: Periods
Subject:: 20th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Print Only 2016

Die Farbe Grau

Magdalena Bushart, Gregor Wedekind

Volume 1 in this series

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In works of art, gray can signal the absence of color or be a color in its own right, a zero point in the art of painting or its summation. Gray is at once a means of (material) mimesis and abstraction, a mode of reflection, and a medium for presenting reality. The essays collected in this volume address the multifaceted nature of the phenomenon, its aesthetic implications, and the functional contexts of the “color gray.”

ISBN:: 9783110372793
Subject:: Arts
Subject:: Arts, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Ahead of Publication 2024

Grenzgänger

Figuren des deutsch-französischen Kulturtransfers

Winfried Eckel, Gregor Wedekind

Volume 10 in this series

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Having grown up in Germany or France, they have crossed the border between the linguistic and cultural areas several times, both literally and metaphorically. As border crossers/frontaliers, they have also become cultural mediators/passeurs de culture. In their respective ﬁelds – art, literature, science – they have provided impulses and opened up new possibilities by building bridges. They have developed cultural syntheses that others have been able to build upon, whether in Germany, France or beyond.

This volume brings together individual studies on David d'Angers, Louis Aragon, Ernst Robert Curtius, Émile Durkheim, Hans Hartung and Wols, Victor Hugo, Julius Meier-Graefe, Edgar Quinet, Germaine de Staël and Johann Georg Wille.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111321196
ISBN:: 9783111321196
ISBN:: 9783111323442
Subject:: Arts
Subject:: Arts, general
Subject:: Periods
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2023

Allan Kaprows Activities

Intimität und Sozialität in der Kunst der 1970er-Jahre

Clara Wörsdörfer

Volume 9 in this series

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Allan Kaprow is regarded as a key figure of the 1960s happening scene. Little known, however, are the "activities" that he developed in California during the 1970s - exercises for couples, realised without an audience on the basis of a written score. They constitute an attempt to create a participatory art form intended to enable participants to engage actively in the shaping of interpersonal relationships. For the first time, the activities are explored with all their formal and thematic complexity, and discussed in detail. Examined in conjunction with the procedures and concerns of the social sciences and psycho-disciplines in the 1970s, they emerge as an independent, exciting contribution to a new discourse on intimacy.

On Allan Kaprow's work after the Happenings
New art- and cultural-historical perspectives on the participatory art of the 1970s

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111291727
ISBN:: 9783111291727
ISBN:: 9783110997613
Subject:: Arts
Subject:: Arts, general
Subject:: Genres
Subject:: Genres, other
Subject:: Periods
Subject:: 20th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Max Slevogts Netzwerke

Kunst-, Kultur- und Intellektuellengeschichte des späten Kaiserreichs und der Weimarer Republik

Gregor Wedekind, Generaldirektion Kulturelles Erbe

Volume 6 in this series

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The very multifaceted artist Max Slevogt had contact with many different circles. As a leading member of the Berlin Secession and then the Prussian Academy of Art, he had an outstanding network and was a central figure on the art scene in Germany from the turn of century until the 1920s. The texts in the book situate Max Slevogt within the intellectual history of the late German Empire and the Weimar Republic and thus attempt to classify his work from the perspective of art and cultural history. Max Slevogt's extremely complex artistic practice is described from its intellectual, material, and communicative requirements. The constitution of his oeuvre and his identity as an artist hence go hand in hand and, as netlike structures, give rise to reciprocal interactions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110760743
ISBN:: 9783110760743
ISBN:: 9783110660951
Subject:: Arts
Subject:: Arts, general
Subject:: Genres
Subject:: Painting
Subject:: Periods
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: 20th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter