John Forbes White's contribution to the history of Art in Scotland was, for the first seventy years after his death, mentioned only in passing by the main writers on Scottish art of the day. However, two of his daughters, Ina Mary Harrower and Dorothea Fyfe, both wrote articles on aspects of their father's collecting: Ina publishing "Private Picture Galleries, The Collection of John Forbes White" in Goodwords in 1896 (pp 813-819), John Forbes White (Edinburgh) in 1918 and in 1927, "Jozef lsraels and his Aberdeen Friend" for the Aberdeen University Review (pp 108-122). A noted art historian, Ina reflected her father's taste and collecting interests in her own writings, as with, for example, "Studies of Fruit by Courbet" Apollo (Vol. L No 296 1949 pp 95-98). Dorothea, with her co-author C.S. Minto, published John Forbes White, Miller, Collector, Photographer 1831-1904 (Edinburgh 1970). The only other writers who have examined White's contribution to art in any detail were Charles Carter, who as curator of Aberdeen Art Gallery, covered art and patronage in the North-East of Scotland in numerous articles and outlined White's contribution in "Art Patronage in Scotland: John Forbes White" published in the Scottish Art Review,(Vol VI, no 2, 1957, pp. 27-30). Frances Fowle, on completion of her PhD on Alexander Reid, also discussed White's tastes in "The Hague School and the Scots, A Taste for Dutch Pictures" (Apollo August 1991 pp 108-111). George Reid was still less favoured by critics after his death. With J.L. Caw championing James Guthrie and William MacTaggart, the innovative and influential aspects of Reid's art were obscured, reduced and even sometimes credited to others. W.D. McKay in The Scottish School of Painting (London 1906) had played down Reid's part in the introduction of Realism into Scotland and Agnes McKay in her monograph on Arthur Melville (Lee on Sea, 1951) went furthest of all in portraying Reid as the enemy of a younger, more innovative group of artists, who included the subject of her book. It was to be another thirty years before Dun can Macmillan would examine Reid, in Scottish Art 1460-1990 (Mainstream, 1990) as an important landscape painter, rather than, as had been the case before, as a reactionary president of the Royal Scottish Academy and an extremely dull, if talented, portrait painter. One year later John Morrison, having completed his PhD Rural Nostalgia: Painting in XIX Scotland c.1860-1880 (St Andrews 1989) wrote of Reid's important European contacts and of the vital relationship between White and Reid in "Sir George Reid in Holland, his work with G.A. Mollinger and Jozef Israels" (Jong Holland 1991 No 4 pp 10-19). Both the assets and the faults of Alexander Macdonald's collecting were examined by Charles Carter in "Alexander Macdonald 1837-1884 - Aberdeen Art Collector" (Scottish Art Review, Vol V, no 3, 1955, pp. 23-28) and again by Francina Irwin in an exhibition catalogue entitled Alexander Macdonald: From Mason to Maecenas in 1985. My main source of material has come from the uncatalogued archive of correspondence between George Reid, John Forbes White, Jozef Israels, George Paul Chalmers, David Artz, Gerrit Mollinger, Samuel Smiles and others, most of which is housed in Aberdeen Art Gallery. Reid's unpublished autobiography, transcribed by his wife Mia, (in the same archive) was also of great use, as was an unpublished but almost complete catalogue raisonne of Reid's work, compiled, probably by Percy Bate or Harry Townend c.1912. I have also made extensive use of the papers of James Pittendrigh Macgillivray which are held by The National Library of Scotland. The descendants of John Forbes White made the works and letters in their possession freely available to me. These included the correspondence between John Forbes White and William Stott of Oldham which is cited in Chapter 6. Elements of this thesis, and particularly sections 2,3, & 4 of Chapter 4, appeared in a revised form in "Art and Patronage in Aberdeen 1860-1920", a paper that I delivered at the Scottish Society of Art History's conference on Patronage, and which was published in The Journal of the Scottish Society for Art Historians (Volume 3 1998 pp 16-24). The sixth section of Chapter 5 appeared in a revised form, in An Album of Photographs compiled by Sir John Everett Millais PRA published in Studies in Photography (Edinburgh, 1997). The discussion of the influence of Ancient Greece and Classicism in the eighth section of Chapter 7 was included in a paper entitled John Forbes White, The Classical Tradition and Ideals In Art given at the conference on "The Role of Collections In The Scottish Cultural Tradition", which was held at Aberdeen University in 1998. The third section of Chapter 7 appeared in a revised form in Robert Brough (Aberdeen Art Gallery, 1995). Appendix A contains relevant excerpts from letters and text, on which much of my research was based whilst Appendix B lists the works of art owned by John Forbes White.

Tesis para optar al grado de Magister en Filosofía mención en Axiología y Filosofía Política. / El problema que intentaré esbozar en las páginas que siguen intenta una reflexión sobre la noción de comunidad, como mundo ético, es decir mundo en el que se dan las relaciones intersubjetivas. Problema presente en las diferentes reflexiones actuales y que conlleva a pensar por el sentido bajo el cual estamos pensando eso común sea como reunión, como esencia común (bien) o como un no lugar entre los hombres que entrega la posibilidad de considerar aquello que ponemos en común (don) comunidad de lo no común (ficción). Con ello me interesa ir por otra vía que aquella que distingue la esfera intersubjetiva como el problema político planteado por las posturas comunitaristas y liberales. El problema que abordo en esta tesis se da desde una perspectiva que podríamos llamar “trascendental”, es decir pensar la comunidad en base a un cierto principio articulador.

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Este trabalho constitui uma análise histórico-antropológica de duas obras do médico, fisiólogo e antropólogo italiano Paolo Mantegazza (1831-1910). Trata-se, principalmente, de abordar o seu trabalho de escrita sobre o Amor. Pretende-se descrever como o autor, sobretudo em seu trabalho antropológico, introduz elementos à pesquisa do campo da sexualidade que não estavam na pauta de discussão de antropólogos que trabalhavam a partir do evolucionismo cultural; bem como as maneiras como Mantegazza apresenta certos problemas que serão longamente trabalhados por sexólogos e outros cientistas no decorrer dos séculos XX e XXI. Para isso, busca-se refletir em que medida seus argumentos estavam inseridos em um campo de conhecimento dividido entre as determinações da “natureza” e aquelas da “cultura” na classificação da vida social e que elementos de diferentes “ciências” o autor mobilizou para a formulação desses argumentos. A partir dessa discussão, intenciona-se problematizar uma forma específica do fazer antropológico no século XIX e a constituição da noção de evolucionismo tanto como um conceito fronteira quanto como uma ampla teoria que, junto ao Amor, tornaram possível dissertar sobre o sexo. / This work is a historical-anthropological analysis of two books of the Italian physician, physiologist and anthropologist Paolo Mantegazza (1831-1910). It is intended to describe how the author, especially in his anthropological work, introduces elements of research in the field of sexuality that were not in the agenda of anthropologists who worked from the cultural evolution; well as the ways Mantegazza presents certain problems that are extensively worked by sexologists and other scientists over the XX and XXI centuries. For this, we seek to reflect the extent to which his arguments were entered in a field of knowledge shared between the determinations of "nature" and those of "culture" in the classification of social life and how elements of different "sciences" was mobilized for the author to the formulation of these arguments. From this discussion, it intends problematize a specific way of doing anthropology in the nineteenth century and the establishment of the notion of evolution both as a concept and as a wide border theory, next to Love, made possible speak about sex.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-14T14:10:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2015-11-05. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2017-03-14T14:42:51Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000876247.pdf: 2669916 bytes, checksum: dbff4f8a79bd27f4b89aa5147df11c7c (MD5) / Durante o Primeiro Reinado, Silvestre Rebello, na categoria de encarregado plenipotenciário, representou o Brasil em Washington perante o Governo estadunidense. Esta dissertação tem por finalidade compreender as práticas políticas engendradas pelo diplomata Rebello entre 1824 a 1829. A partir da experiência política de Silvestre Rebello, analisaremos também algumas especificidades das relações entre Brasil e Estados Unidos durante o Primeiro Reinado, além de matizes do funcionamento da Secretaria de Estado de Negócios Estrangeiros e nuances relacionadas à solidificação do Império Brasileiro. Este estudo ancora-se, sobretudo, na análise da correspondência trocada entre Rebello e a Secretaria de Estado de Negócios Estrangeiros no período de 1824 a 1829, em conjunto com papéis administrativos produzidos por esse mesmo órgão, periódicos e revistas da época, atas do IHGB e materiais iconográficos. / At the time of the first reign, Silvestre Rebello was the Brazilian diplomat representing the Brazilian Government in the United States. This job aims to understand the politic actions of Rebello during the years of 1824 to 1829 including the specific matters involved in the established relation between Brazil and USA. This |Master's Thesis also intends to think about the Rebello actions and the institutional relations between the Brazilian Foreign Business Agency and the American Government and the public opinion about it. To get these objects, it is going to use the letters sent and receipt by Rebello and the Brazilian Foreign Business Agency in the years of 1824 to 1829 and also the official documents produced by the Brazilian and American agencies and the running newspapers.

Memoria (licenciado en ciencias jurídicas y sociales) / El presente trabajo tiene por objeto realizar una revisión de la Filosofía del Derecho de Hegel, poniendo principal atención en la teoría del Estado. Para eso en un primer momento realizaremos una confrontación entre el Contrato Social de Rousseau y la idea de Estado en Hegel, para luego remitirnos a las críticas que Marx realiza a esta última. A lo largo de este recorrido tendremos en consideración la filosofía general de cada uno de estos autores y su relación con la teoría del Estado. Lo anterior será tomado como antecedente en el segundo ensayo, donde se realizará una reconstrucción posible del camino recorrido por Marx desde la crítica a la Filosofía del Derecho de Hegel hasta la construcción de un “método” propio de análisis social, el Materialismo Histórico.

Tesis para optar al grado de Magister en Filosofía mención Axiología y Filosofía Política / ¿Por qué un trabajo desde Hegel? ¿Por qué recordar a Hegel desde el contexto de los avatares ideológicos que conmueven la posible idea de un sujeto contemporáneo? Son estas dos preguntas las que paulatinamente fueron dando cuerpo a este trabajo. Lo primero, sin duda, dice relación con el lugar de partida: ¿por qué partir desde Hegel un problema que mucha literatura asume más bien desde Marx? Las razones que fueron apareciendo para esto son variadas, pero podemos considerar dos como las más relevantes: por un lado, toda forma triádica -tanto del proceso como del tipo de relación que el sujeto describe con su “realidad”- no puede ser comprendido a cabalidad sin la necesaria referencia al tipo de dialéctica que, entiende Hegel, caracteriza el movimiento del ser y en este caso particular, el movimiento propio del pensamiento. Es decir, no podemos concebir el desarrollo que -Marx observa- determina los fenómenos de fetichismo o reificación, sin considerar previamente el despliegue de un pensamiento, de una subjetividad, desdoblada y que precisamente pende de ese desdoblarse para dar con su objeto real de relación. La manera en que se constituyen los objetos respecto de los cuales el sujeto establece una relación de conocimiento o de determinación, está en la mediación de la propia subjetividad respecto de sí misma y respecto de aquello que aparece como siendo otra cosa que ella misma. No es otro sino Hegel, quien extiende este proceso y esta explicación en que se funda todo el horizonte de lo que en Marx tomará la forma de las descripciones ideológicas del mundo.

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Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) has generally been recognized as an influential study of western literary perceptions of the East, but numerous critics have also challenged his geographical parameters as too narrow and his conceptual framework as insufficiently complex. This thesis further expands the study of Orientalism (1) by focussing on a colonized area generally overlooked in this context, namely Southeast Asia; (2) by including a writer of German background, a nationality frequently omitted in the discussion of colonial history in general and of Orientalism in particular; and (3) perhaps most importantly, by juxtaposing the views of a Chinese author with those of western writers. This thesis is the critical study of three authors about their travels in Southeast Asia: Isabella Bird (1831-1904), Max Dauthendey (1867-1918) and Ai Wu (1904-1992). Since postcolonial criticism does not generally concern itself with the cultural habits which are formed in a traveller’s native society prior to his or her departure, this approach alone does not provide the tools for the differentiated kind of investigation I wish to conduct. I therefore draw on the cultural criticism of Pierre Bourdieu (1972, 1979, 1993), Johannes Fabian (1983, 1991), and Walter Benjamin (1969, 1974, 1985), to focus on a decisive moment in each traveller’s background, which may be said to have shaped his or her perception of other cultures. In Bird’s case, this event was the 1851 Exhibition which encapsulated the Victorian ideals of industrial progress, imperial expansion, and Christian philanthropy. By contrast, Dauthendey’s responses were shaped by the Art Nouveau sensibilities he bad acquired in the German, French, and Scandinavian bohème. Finally, Al Wu derived his outlook from the May Fourth Movement, a brief period when western ideas were welcomed into Chinese social and literary history. Said’s Orietalism posits the homogeneous cultural entity of an imperial West in contradistinction to a victimized East. This thesis does not reverse these categories, but it does provide the space for an equal discussion of Chinese and western writings within a differentiated historical context.