<p> The cultural sensation known as the movida madrile&ntilde;a has been a subject of fascination since its origins in Madrid throughout the late 1970s and 1980s. This dissertation examines one of its most famous products, the journal <i>La Luna de Madrid</i> (1983-1988). This dissertation explores examples of illustration and photography throughout the journal's first seven issues, from November 1983-May 1984. Concentrating on the use of strategies from tourism promotion, this framework reveals how visual elements work with text to encourage readers to become tourists of modern Madrid. </p><p> Chapter One provides a background of how tourism images and messages have shaped perceptions of Spanish cultural identity from dictatorship to democracy, from the 1950s to the 1980s. Within this context, it is possible to understand the efficacy of tourism promotional tropes in portraying an attractive vision of Madrid in the journal's pages. </p><p> Chapter Two emphasizes how the movida represented the positive changes developing in Post-Franco Madrid, leading local and regional political leaders to employ this phenomenon in programs focused upon cultural revitalization and civic participation. This chapter argues that the movida not only appears as the main cultural tendency of interest within <i>La Luna de Madrid </i>, but that its treatment within the journal allows it to be viewed as an attractive tourism destination. </p><p> Chapter Three and Chapter Four provide close readings and in-depth visual analysis of certain repeated illustrated and photographic segments within <i> La Luna de Madrid</i> from November 1983-May 1984. By narrowing the research scope to these first seven months of publication, we can examine how patterns of viewing are established that encourage readers to contemplate selective historical and contemporary cultural trends in Madrid from the perspective of a tourist. </p><p> The combination of text and imagery at work in <i>La Luna de Madrid </i> reinforces the efforts of the various creative practices of the movida while giving readers opportunities to participate in this cultural scene. This dissertation argues that experiments with the visual and rhetorical tropes of tourism in <i>La Luna de Madrid</i> attempt to foster favorable impressions of the Spanish capital's past and present.</p>

<p> Joaqu&iacute;n Sorolla (1863-1923) painted numerous works of children bathing and playing on Spain's Mediterranean shores. This life-affirming subject allowed Sorolla to participate in the broad cultural discourse in Spain concerning cultural regeneration. Sorolla's work with the subject of the child bather intensified in the decade following the Crisis of 1898. <i>Sad Inheritance! </i>, his first monumental work on a child bather subject, directly engages the Theory of Degeneration, and the degeneration of Spain itself. While creating this work, Sorolla also developed paintings of child bathers that moved decisively toward a vision of regeneration. It was this regenerative vision that the artist would pursue in a number of complex and shifting ways, until creating a series of large child bather paintings in 1909. This thesis takes an episodic approach, studying key works from a decade of Sorolla' s output. </p>

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-06, Section: A, page: 2211. Adviser: Anne D. Hedeman. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 267-284) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.

As a popular ‘scientific’ and educational journal, National Geographic, since its founding in 1888, has positioned itself as a voice of authority within mainstream American print media, offering what purports to be an unprejudiced ‘window onto the world’. Previous scholarship has been quick to call attention to the magazine’s participation in an imperialist representational regime. Catherine A. Lutz and Jane L. Collins, Tamar Rothenberg and Linda Steet have all argued that National Geographic’s distinctive, quasi-anthropological outlook has established hierarchies of difference and rendered subjects into dehumanised objects, a spectacle of the unknown and exotic other. A more nuanced understanding can be reached by drawing upon Mary Louise Pratt’s concept of the ‘contact zone’. Pratt defined the contact zone as ‘spaces where cultures meet, clash and grapple with each other, often in contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power’. Photographs since National Geographic’s centenary edition in September 1988 have traced the beginnings of a different view of encounters within the United States-Brazil contact zone, driven by the forces of globalisation, which have resisted the processes of objectification, appropriation and stereotyping frequently associated with the rectangular yellow border. This is because they have provided evidence of a fluid and various population, which has selected and experimented with preferred elements of American and European dress, and used it to fashion their own, distinctly Brazilian identities. This thesis will examine both the visual and textual strategies that National Geographic and National Geographic Brasil (the Portuguese-language version of the magazine, established in Sao Paulo in May 2000) have used to fashion Brazil, but also the extent to which Brazilian subjects can be seen to have self-fashioned, through the strategic appropriation of clothing and ideas derived from an existing and dominant global culture. It will approach dress not simply as cloth but as a system of communication, whose many meanings are not fixed but continually informed and to an extent, even performed, by its visual, material, and textual representation. This thesis employs a multidisciplinary mode of analysis that draws on five Brazilian scholars, each of whom have used dress and fashion metaphors in their writings, which have encompassed poetry, film studies, poststructuralist theory, literary criticism and anthropology.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brown University, 2008. / Advisor : Catherine Wilkinson Zerner. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 176-191) and index.

In major museums around the world there are twenty-nine saddles of carved stag horn (usually referred to as "ivory") dated roughly to the fifteenth century that are, at best, sporadically discussed in art historical literature. Of these, ten currently reside in museums and private collections in English speaking countries, yet no significant studies on them exist in English. The goal of this thesis is to introduce this group of rare and extraordinary saddles and to provide a basis for further research on the topic in English. The thesis begins with an introduction to the saddles themselves and the literature on the subject. The first chapter focuses on the iconographical programs of the most elaborate saddles. The second chapter involves in depth examination of each saddle's provenance and if possible, the identification of a likely patron. The third chapter focuses on the production process of the saddles and explores the different hypotheses put forth by past scholars concerning the places of production. In addition to the specific focus on the stag horn saddles, it is hoped that this thesis will contribute to the broader study of the Renaissances of East-Central Europe in the English-speaking world.

La littérature et la peinture semblent être les domaines les plus propices au développement de l’intime au XIXe siècle. Pourtant, la notion possède aussi sa place dans le domaine de la sculpture qui, par des procédés qui lui sont propres, parvient à la révéler. Sujet le plus favorable à l’introspection, l’autoportrait, tel que le conçoivent Carriès ou Gauguin, demeure une expérience singulière qui ne se vérifie pas chez tous les sculpteurs. L’expression de l’intime est alors à chercher dans le portrait où l’artiste tend à faire surgir l’intériorité de son modèle à la manière de Carpeaux ou de Rodin. Les fondamentaux du dialogue entre intime et sculpture sont ainsi posés. La notion se définit aussi par sa polyvalence liée au contexte de commande et de réception, aux questions esthétiques de l’époque, au mystère de la création et, enfin, jusque dans ses limites. L’intime est une notion protéiforme qui peut aussi bien prendre sens sous un aspect iconographique que suivant les modalités de création d’une sculpture. Ce concept imprègne toute forme de sculpture s’exprimant aussi bien dans le portrait sculpté, que dans les petits groupes ou statuettes ou encore dans la statuaire monumentale. L’étude des œuvres de Claudel, Dalou ou Rosso nous a permis de comprendre que plus que d’un courant esthétique à part entière, il s’agit davantage d’une caractéristique qui permet de mieux les rassembler. L’intime apparaît donc comme un outil pour étudier la sculpture des années 1865 à 1909 sous un angle nouveau. / Literature and painting seem to be the most favourable fields for the development of intimacy during the nineteenth century. The notion has, nevertheless, its place too in the field of sculpture which by processes of its own, manages to reveal it. Even though self-portraits, such as conceived by Carriès or Gauguin, are particularly suitable for introspection they remain a unique experience that does not apply to every sculptor. The expression of intimacy is then to be found in portraits where artists tend to bring out the interiority of their model, in the manner of Carpeaux and Rodin. The fundamentals of dialogue between intimacy and sculpture are thus laid down. The term is also defined by its versatility, in relation to the context of order and reception, to aesthetic issues of the time, to the mystery of creation and, finally, to its own limits. Intimacy is a protean concept that can take on its full meaning through a single iconographic aspect or modalities of creation of sculpture. This very concept permeates all forms of sculpture and is expressed in sculpted portraits as well as in small groups, statuettes, even monumental sculpture. Our study of works by Claudel, Dalou or Rosso allowed us to understand that more than an aesthetic current in its own right, intimacy is rather a distinctive feature that brings works together. Intimacy therefore appears as a tool to study the sculptural fields ranging from 1865 to 1909 from a new angle.

Das Archiv für Epigraphik ist eine Fachzeitschrift für die Erforschung von Inschriften der Vormoderne mit einem thematischen Schwerpunkt im Mittelalter und der Frühen Neuzeit.

Ce travail étudie la place particulière accordée aux « maîtres anciens » dans la littérature artistique et les pratiques muséales depuis la Révolution jusqu’au milieu du XIXe siècle en France. Dès la fin de l’Ancien Régime, la définition des « maîtres anciens » connaît une transition progressive : des artistes de la Grèce antique aux fondateurs de l’École nationale. Par l’usage de leurs noms et de leurs vertus artistiques mais aussi morales, l’art national en France doit acquérir une notoriété digne d’une République nouvelle qui puisse rivaliser avec les autres écoles nationales prééminentes. Cette nouvelle prépondérance des maîtres anciens français doit répondre au souci républicain de l’instruction publique, en assurant la diffusion de la connaissance de l’histoire nationale et des qualités édifiantes par voie de la « vision » : leurs œuvres exposées dans des espaces ad hoc et leur image représentée dans la production artistique contemporaine en tant que grands hommes, héros et pères de la Nation. Les textes d’Alexandre Lenoir, d’Émeric-David et de La Décade ont été explorés dans cette optique, avant la considération de la disposition d’œuvres dans les musées et des catalogues, en particulier les Annales de Landon, et des créations artistiques dédiées à l’image des maîtres anciens. Redécouverts à dessein, les maîtres anciens contribuent à la construction d’une identité culturelle nationale et collective. / This thesis problematises in historical context the identity of the ‘Old Masters’ in the literature on art and practices of museums in France from the time of the French Revolution until the mid-nineteenth century. Since the end of the Old Regime, the definition of the ‘Old Masters’ was transformed: a transition of principal elements, from the classical Greek artists to the founders of the National School, took place. This transition reflected the anxiety of the newborn French Republic facing an international rivalry in art history and myriad obstacles to its social and political goals. To meet the concerns of competition and emulation, the names as well as the artistic and moral qualities of ‘Masters’ were recognised, with emphasis, as being closely linked to public instruction and national history. The thesis analyses the texts and museum theories of Alexandre Lenoir and Toussaint-Bernard Émeric-David and the discussion of ‘Old Masters’ in the republican journal La Décade. Also analysed in this context are the displays of the Old Masters in the museums, catalogues (with a focus of Landon’s Annales) and works of art during the Revolution and the first half of the nineteenth century recreating the images of the Old Masters as national heroes or fathers of French art. This consciously performed reconstruction of the ‘Old Masters’ during the French Revolution made a crucial contribution to the formation of the cultural identity of France.

This paper deals with the history of the study and discipline called "History of Christian Art". It attempts to find the roots of the interest in history, sacred monuments, and national monuments of the past in the spiritual environment of the Czech lands, and its subsequent inclusion in the context of contemporary European developments of interest in art and its study. Beginning with the oldest hagiographic texts, which are not only records of literary history, but in many cases are important in terms of references to building monuments and artworks, among which Kristian's legend is dominant, through the texts of medieval chroniclers, Kosmas, his followers, the Chronicle of Zbraslav Monastery and chronicles from the reign of Charles IV., across the historiography of the Baroque period, which is without a doubt dominated by the work of Bohuslav Balbín and Thomas Pešina of Čechorod, and the period of national awakening, through a boom industry in the nineteenth century, when Ferdinand Josef Lehner made history with his founding work, to the culmination in the activities of representatives of the field the first half of the twentieth century, when it was represented by personalities such as Antonin Podlaha, Eduard Sittler, and Josef Cibulka. Based on the recapitulation and subsequent description of...