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The series “Aesthetic Practice” is dedicated to the investigation of practice dimensions of the arts from a transdisciplinary perspective, but also to the exploration of everyday aesthetic practices.It will address how works of art can be understood as manifestations of practices, such as exercises, rehearsals, improvisations, writing processes, acts of sketching or designing. These practices can furthermore be considered in their eespective aesthetic intrinsic value as well as explored in contexts beyond the art world. Other focal points include work on aesthetic practices in the context of a postcolonial aesthetics as well as activity-theoretical investigations of the relationship between action, practice, and aesthetic practice, which complement the current praxeological turn in the humanities and social sciences with an aesthetic perspective.
Its basic premise is that a deeper understanding of what is at stake in these tensions and debates calls for a multidisciplinary conversation. The authors focus on images that appear to trigger strongly negative reactions; images that are perceived as insulting or offensive; those subject to taboos and restrictions; or those that are condemned as blasphemous. In light of recurrent acts of violence leveled against images and symbols in the contemporary, globally entangled world, addressing instances of “icono-clash” (Bruno Latour) from a new post-secular, global perspective has become a matter of urgency.
Framed in the historiography of longue durée, routes may be addressed as trajectories that cut across cultural geographies and periodizations. With focus on the early modern period, the volume foregrounds an unprecedented expansion and transformation of route-networks. New combinations of transcontinental routes profoundly affected cultural topographies and symbolic paradigms. The rise of Asian and European port cities as nodes of maritime systems and prosperous cultural contact zones is closely linked to these shifts; routes, hubs, and the fabrication of collective imaginations about them therefore constitute the central themes of this book.
Die eine, richtige Geschichte der Kunst gibt es nicht. Wohl aber viele einzigartige Werke und etliche Möglichkeiten, sie ebenso unterschiedlich wie spannend zu analysieren. Und genau darum macht es auch Spaß und Sinn, sich immer wieder neu mit Kunst zu beschäftigen, nicht nur mit der aktuellen, sondern auch der alten. Die vier Bände der Einführungsreihe stellen jeweils etwa 20 einzelne Kunstwerke einer Epoche in den Mittelpunkt, anhand derer ausgewiesene Spezialist/-innen des Fachs zeigen, wie lebendig und überraschend Kunstgeschichte sein kann, wie bunt die Vielstimmigkeit des Kanon Kunstgeschichte ist. Diese intensiven Fallstudien dienen Studierenden und allen Kunstinteressierten dazu, die unterschiedlichsten und doch nie einzig richtigen, aber immer begründeten und methodisch wie theoretisch reflektierten Möglichkeiten des Umgangs mit Kunst kennen zu lernen. Denn schließlich geht es darum, sich am Ende selbst eine Meinung zu bilden und die Geschichte(n) der Kunst weiter zu erzählen.