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In this challenging and erudite philosophical essay, the author argues that in art, belief in progress is still relevant, if not essential. The radical freedoms of postmodernism have had a crippling effect on art - more than ever before, art is in danger of becoming meaningless. Art can only acquire meaning through context, and the concept of progress is ideal as the primary criterion for establishing that context. History of art can be seen as a process of constant accumulation. Works of art comment on each other, enriching each other's meanings. These complex interrelationships lead to progress in both the sensibility of the observer and the significance of the works of art. - Alles in de kunst is in beweging. Tegelijkertijd lijkt met het eind van de avantgarde de grote stilstand te zijn ingetreden. Het veelbesproken einde van de kunst en het postmodernisme roepen veel twijfels op. In dit helder geschreven betoog onderzoekt de auteur een begrip dat door de tot cliche geworden afschaffing van de Grote Verhalen onzichtbaar is geworden: het vooruitgangsidee. Hij laat zien hoe dat idee in de achttiende eeuw opkomt, allesbepalend is tijdens de avantgarde en met het eind van de avantgarde ten onder gaat. Maarten Doorman pleit voor een kritische herwaardering van vooruitgangsbegrippen om de als zorgeloosheid vermomde vrijblijvendheid van het postmodernisme het hoofd te bieden. Arthur Danto: The end of art does not entail that there has not been genuine progress in the philosophy of art. Maarten Doorman's challenging and valuable study contributes to that progress, whether or not progress in art itself remains, as he argues, a tenable idea.

How did painters and their public speak about art in Rembrandt's age? This book about the writings of the painter-poet Samuel van Hoogstraten, one of Rembrandt's pupils, examines a wide variety of themes from painting practice and theory from the Dutch Golden Age. It addresses the contested issue of 'Dutch realism' and its hidden symbolism, as well as Rembrandt's concern with representing emotions in order to involve the spectator. Diverse aspects of imitation and illusion come to the fore, such as the theory behind sketchy or 'rough' brushwork and the active role played by the viewer's imagination. Taking as its starting point discussions in Rembrandt's studio, this unique study provides an ambitious overview of Dutch artists' ideas on painting. - Waar ging het de Hollandse meesters om bij hun verbeelding van de werkelijkheid? Bevatten hun schilderijen verborgen betekenissen? Hoe verklaar je hun aandacht voor lichtval, spiegeling en materialen? Dit boek over het werk van de schilder en dichter Samuel van Hoogstraten, een leerling van Rembrandt, werpt nieuw licht op talrijke thema's uit de schilderpraktijk en -theorie van de Gouden Eeuw. Het behandelt het 'Hollandse realisme' met zijn vergankelijkheidsymboliek, evenals Rembrandts streven om emoties te verbeelden waarmee hij de beschouwer bij de voorstelling betrok. Opvattingen over imitatie en illusionisme blijken te zijn gebaseerd op filosofische motieven. Uitgaande van discussies in Rembrandts atelier, biedt The Visible World een ambitieus overzicht van de Nederlandse kunstopvattingen uit de zeventiende eeuw. The Visible World verschijnt in de "http://www.aup.nl/do.php?a=show_visitor_booklist&b=series&series=53">Amsterdamse Gouden Eeuw Reeks uitgegeven door Amsterdam University Press in samenwerking met het "http://cf.uba.uva.nl/goudeneeuw/">Centrum voor de Studie van de Gouden Eeuw.

Most artists earn very little. Nevertheless, there is no shortage of aspiring young artists. Do they give to the arts willingly or unknowingly? Governments and other institutions also give to the arts, to raise the low incomes. But their support is ineffective: subsidies only increase the artists' poverty. The economy of the arts is exceptional. Although the arts operate successfully in the marketplace, their natural affinity is with gift-giving, rather than with commercial exchange. People believe that artists are selflessly dedicated to art, that price does not reflect quality, and that the arts are free. But is it true? This unconventional multidisciplinary analysis explains the exceptional economy of the arts. Insightful illustrations from the practice of a visual artist support the analysis. - Kunstenaars verdienen vaak weinig. Toch is er aan jonge kunstenaars geen gebrek! Nemen zij het beperkte financiële gewin voor lief of weten zij niet beter? De overheid levert een bijdrage om de lage inkomens te compenseren, maar door subsidies lijkt de armoede onder kunstenaars slechts toe te nemen. In deze onconventionele en multidisciplinaire studie analyseert fotograaf, schilder en econoom Hans Abbing de uitzonderlijke economie van de kunsten: wijden kunstenaars zich geheel belangenloos aan hun werk, of laten zij zich wel degelijk leiden door economische motieven.

Most artists earn very little. Nevertheless, there is no shortage of aspiring young artists. Do they give to the arts willingly or unknowingly? Governments and other institutions also give to the arts, to raise the low incomes. But their support is ineffective: subsidies only increase the artists' poverty. The economy of the arts is exceptional. Although the arts operate successfully in the marketplace, their natural affinity is with gift-giving, rather than with commercial exchange. People believe that artists are selflessly dedicated to art, that price does not reflect quality, and that the arts are free. But is it true? This unconventional multidisciplinary analysis explains the exceptional economy of the arts. Insightful illustrations from the practice of a visual artist support the analysis.

Brings together some of the most exciting recent scholarship on Asian literature and culture, emphasising East Asia yet extending to South Asia Combines original findings of interest to specialists with a clear style of writing and argumentation that makes the volume accessible and appealing to the general reader Brings to life a wide range of Asian literary and scholarly figures important in their time and remain relevant and yet whose significance has been poorly understood - Het toegankelijk geschreven From Marginal to Mainstream brengt de literatuur van Azië in kaart. Het is een verzameling van grensverleggend Aziatisch literatuuronderzoek. De onderwerpen gaan van vrouwelijke poëten in het vroegmoderne India die zich door hun unieke gebruik van Sanskriet duidelijk onderscheidden van hun mannelijke collega's, via Japanse naar Chinese auteurs wier autobiografisch werk een geheel nieuwe trend zette in de 20ste en 21ste eeuwse Chinese literatuur.

This book exploits a trove of original documents that have survived on the auctions organized by the Orphan Chamber of Amsterdam in the first half of the 17th century. For the first time, the names of some 2000 buyers of works of art at auction in the 29 extant notebooks of the Chamber have been systematically analyzed. On the basis of archival research, data have been assembled on the occupation of these buyers (most of whom were merchants), their origin (Southern Netherlands, Holland, and other), their religion, their year of birth, their date of marriage, the taxes they paid and other indicators of their wealth. Buyers were found to cluster in groups, not only by extended family but by occupation, religion (Remonstrants, Counter-Remonstrants) and avocation (amateurs of tulips and of porcelain, members of Chambers of Rhetoricians, and so forth). The subjects of the works of art they bought and the artists to which they were attributed (only the most important were attributed) are also analyzed. In the second part of the book on "Selected Buyers", three chapters are devoted to art dealers who bought at auction and four to buyers who had special connections with artists, including principally Rembrandt. To forge a link between the cultural milieu of Amsterdam in this period and the buying public, two chapters are given over to buyers who were either poets themselves or were connected with contemporary poets. As a whole, the book offers a penetrating insight into the culture of the Amsterdam elite in the 17th century. - Tijdens de talloze veilingen die de Amsterdamse Weeskamer in de eerste helft van de Gouden zeventiende eeuw organiseerde, blijken het vooral koopmannen te zijn geweest, en dan met name uit de Zuidelijke Nederlanden en Holland, die hun goede geld investeerden in de aankoop van een Dürer of een Gerard Dou. Op basis van vele originele documenten die door de Weeskamer zijn overgeleverd, heeft professor J.M. Montias voor het eerst de achtergronden van zo'n 2000 zeventiende-eeuwse kopers van veilingkunst systematisch geanalyseerd. Hij verzamelde gegevens over hun beroep, hun afkomst, hun religie, hun geboortejaar en huwelijksdata, de belasting die ze betaalden en andere aanwijzingen over hun welvaart. Daaruit blijkt dat de kopers in verschillende groepen geclusterd waren. Een aantal van hen - waaronder ook de schilders Rembrandt en Rubens - komt in het boek uitgebreid aan bod. Daarnaast analyseert Montias de onderwerpen van de gekochte kunst en de kunstenaars waaraan de kopers gelieerd waren.

Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus has been controversial from its beginning in the life of the French Visitationist nun Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690), who established the devotion after a series of mystical visions of Christ. Under the leadership of Sister Sophie Barat, founder of the Society of the Sacred Heart in 1800, the devotion was taken around the world in the course of the nineteenth century. Wherever it went, the devotion took the shape of an evolving visual culture. Even during Alacoque's lifetime, imagery was a fundamental part of practicing the devotion. The Sacred Heart of Jesus traces the unfolding visual biography of the Sacred Heart, showing how imagery and visual practice document the history of the devotion and the remarkable range of its evolution. - Devotie aan het Heilige Hart van Jezus is al vanaf het eerste ontstaan controversieel. De Franse non Marguerite-Marie Alacoque (1647-1690) begon met deze Heilige-Hart-verering na een opeenvolging van openbaringen van Christus te hebben gehad. Jezuïeten, spirituele goeroes en priesters tot op de dag van vandaag maken deze verering tot het centrum van hun theologische studie en beleving. The Sacred Heart of Jesus is een uitgebreide visuele biografie van het Heilige Hart. Het laat de opmerkelijke evolutie van dit fenomeen zien, maar ook hoe beeldende kunst en rituelen deze geschiedenis documenteren.

Various kind of Kala is one of temple ornament, that are patterned face of the giant's head Kala at every Hindu Indonesia Java temple entrances. Kala's ornament is come from India named Kirtimukha. It has beautiful form, strange, unique and mythic, it also is noted by many parties. Its presence raises contradiction. Giant Kirtimukha was born out of anger of Siva, which raised a fire of anger from between her eyebrows. Kirtimukha that has very big power called Mahakala, with grim face, grinning mouth and sharp fang, killer and cannibal, was assigned to keep the palace/temple. Giant Kirtimukha or Mahakala is ornament of palace doors in India deva and Java temple, and then spreads to the East Java named Banaspati, to Bali named Boma, the mask, Betara Kala, Barong, Gupala, Bhutakala and others. Frequently, the word Kala is also associated with time and the sun. Each Kala in separated region has its own form and function. Heaven Palace buildings architect named Wisvakarma. Kala as temple ornament in Dieng is classical style built on (± 600-900), in Plaosan Lor is middle classical style built on (± 900-1250 AD), in Panataran temple is late classical style built on (± 1250-1400 AD ). Form and function changes in classical style Kala were done in anthropomorphich, metamorphosis, deformative by creative and innovative artist in each period. Period of Hindu artist produce classical Kala ornament as enterance guard on temple or and the like. Period of Islam produces Batara Kala and Gunungan Wayang Kulit Purwa and others.The change of the political, religious and authorities in various regions, is a major cause of changes in form and function of Kala. In a classic Indonesian Hindu temple, Middle and modern period Kala have different name and form, but his function still as an ornamental and security guard of its owner. Modern period produce new type of reliefs and paintings for building wall and many others. Kala ornament is created by creative and innovative artist ranging from design, preparation of materials/equipment and the forming, till producing giant pattern art works or mask.Â

Municipal involvement in the finance of fine arts museums raises the question: Just which market failure serves to rationalize this public subsidy? Two contenders are prominent in the literature: decreasing costs and education externalities. The relationship of price to marginal cost provides an operational test to distinguish among the two rationales. Scattered data from the 1880s and 1890s as well as contemporary discussion indicate that, implausible as it may seem now, education externalities constituted the operational justification for the public subsidy.

Ton de Leeuw (1926-96) is probably one of the most influential composers at the crossroads between Eastern philosophy and Western technique. A one-time pupil of Olivier Messiaen's in Paris, throughout the latter years of his musical career he concentrated on the marriage of Western emphasis on action and tension, and the ethical function of music in Eastern traditions. The musical world of the twentieth century is a divided one. Numerous histories of it have been written, but few of the exceptional quality of de Leeuw's, who brought into his writing a lifetime of experience as a composer and scholar of music. His work is a lucid and impassioned discussion of the elements, structures, compositional principles and terminologies in modern music that can be regarded as most innovatory. This book is an excellent guide for anyone wishing to gain knowledge of the compositional technique and mentality, particularly university and conservatory students. - Aan de hand van voorbeelden van invloedrijke twintigste eeuwse componisten, onderzoekt Ton de Leeuw de fundamentele muzikale elementen zoals ritme, melodie, samenklank en timbre. Deze heldere analyse verschaft een breder inzicht in concepten die nooit tevoren systematisch onderzocht waren, waarbij nieuwe terminologie en definities geintroduceerd worden. Dit boek verschaft docenten, studenten en allen die betrokken zijn bij hedendaagse muziek geen historische maar een analytische benadering van twintigste eeuwse muziek. Het weerspiegelt Ton de Leeuw's diepe inzicht in het compositieproces. Aan de hand van voorbeelden van invloedrijke componisten zoals Strawinsky, Schönberg en Bartok onderzoekt de auteur de fundamentele muzikale elementen ritme, melodie, samenklank en timbre. Ook exotiek en folklore, vrije atonaliteit, dodecafonie en de periode tot 1991 komen aan bod. Door formulering van een nieuwe terminologie en definities wordt een breder inzicht verkregen in concepten die nooit tevoren systematisch onderzocht waren.

This collection of essays, co-edited with Katie Scott, redefines the study of the decorative arts in eighteenth-century France. It includes broader accounts of the impact of Enlightenment philosophy in shaping the understanding of the 'decorative arts' alongside case studies of silks, furniture, and architecture, drawing on recent theories of the body and space. Alive to the everyday pleasures found in objects, furnishings and dress, the volume illuminates the material worlds of consumers, from the extravagance of the court to the more modest taste of middle-class families, linking these material worlds to political and social life. The culture of luxury goods is considered alongside the changes to dress and design in the Revolutionary period