In our next special issue, entitled "Precarious Past? Research on Baroque Architecture in East Central Europe under Socialism", authors from Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary survey the interpretative modells applied to Baroque architecture by architectural historians in Eastern Europe during the Cold War era. Guest-editors: Michaela Marek and Eva Pluhařová-Grigienė, Humboldt-University, Berlin.
Henri Matisse's "Jazz" became one of the most celebrated livres d'artiste of the 20th century. The images, created during the German Occupation of France, were embedded with symbols of cultural resistance, while his text, which he composed after the defeat of the Germans, reflected the transition to a post-Liberation France. […]
Instead of stabilising the poles of stasis and non-stasis, and narrative and non-narrative, in the 1970s, Julião Sarmento plays within a concomitant scheme: photography and painting, photography and film, stasis and narrative are merged. What is at stake is […]
The socio-political transformation of the Polish nation between 1815 and 1830 and the Neoclassical style dominating in the Fine Arts constitute the background for this investigation of two public monuments dedicated to national heroes in those years.[…]
Przemiany społeczno-polityczne polskiej wspólnoty narodowej w latach 1815-1830 oraz klasycyzm dominujący wówczas w sztukach pięknych są tłem dla rozważań na temat form dwóch pomników projektowanych w tym czasie ku czci bohaterow narodowych. […]
The Illyrian-Hungarian College in Bologna was founded in 1553. This article is the first to investigate its architectural history by drawing on a large body of archival documents.
The doors of Santa Sabina in Rome are the most complete Late Antique doors to survive till this day. Though widely studied during the last 150 years, the question of their dating has never been completely resolved. With the results of initial Wiggle Matching Analysis on two selected panels, this article confirms […]
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