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Animation between Magic, Miracles and Mechanics
Principles of Life in Medieval Imagery
(book + e-book)
When it comes to images, we are all animists. Deep down, we all know that images can – at least potentially – be alive or come to life. Nowadays, we m…
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Ovartaci
The Signature of Madness
(book + e-book)
Hospitalized following a mental health crisis in 1929, Louis Marcussen (1894—1985) begins a spectacular journey. He fills his room at the psychiatric…
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Krøyer and Paris
French Connections and Nordic Colours
(book + e-book)
‘A lover of light’: in 1912, a French critic used these words to describe the great Danish painter Peder Severin Krøyer, who had close ties to the Fre…
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Culture and Conflict
Nation-Building in Denmark and Scandinavia, 1800–1930
Edited by Sine Krogh Karina Lykke Grand Thor J. Mednick
(book + e-book)
Cultural differences are often the trigger for conflict – whether politically motivated or arising from dissonant understandings of national culture.…
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The Gesamtkunstwerk in Design and Architecture
From Bayreuth to Bauhaus
(book + e-book)
The history of modern design and architecture has seen many attempts to embrace and merge different art forms, and to bring art into the framing of ev…
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Imaginative Moods
Aesthetics, Religion, Philosophy
(book + e-book)
Following modern and postmodern philosophy’s critique of metaphysics, experiences of transcendence are often considered ‘aesthetic’ rather than ‘metap…
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Poetic Inclinations
Ethics, History, Philosophy
(book + e-book)
Philosophy originates in wonder that generates sensitive thinking, also called ‘aesthetic thinking’—an expanded mode of thought that bridges and disso…
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Thorvaldsen
Collector of Plaster Casts from Antiquity and the Early Modern Period
(book + e-book)
The Danish neoclassical sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844), who lived most of his life in Rome, was not only one of Europe’s most soughtafter art…
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Dead or Alive!
Tracing the Animation of Matter in Art and Visual Culture
Edited by Gunhild Borggreen Maria Fabricius Hansen Rosanna Tindbæk
(book + e-book)
The image is an ontological paradox; it is made of dead matter, yet appears to be alive. For centuries, artists have created images of the living worl…
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Peter Brandes
Meridian of Art
(book + e-book)
Peter Brandes is one of the most significant Danish visual artists alive today. He is represented in the collections of leading museums worldwide, inc…
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What Images Do
Edited by Jan Bäcklund Henrik Oxvig Michael Renner Martin Søberg
(book + e-book)
When images look like something they do so because they are different from what they resemble. This difference is not sufficiently captured by the tra…
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Harbingers of Twentieth-Century Neo-classicism
(book + e-book)
In this pioneering musicological study the Danish emeritus professor Finn Egeland Hansen proposes that the classical-romantic main current of the 19th…
149,95 kr.