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War and Peace. The Film Iconeme of the Urban Square as Image of Europe in Transition (1944-1948)

the square as an essential iconeme in postwar nonfiction cinema and visual culture, acting as a fil rouge to visually retrace the path of Europe from war to peace, and into new forms of political ... streets and piazze to welcome the liberators. Nor is it by chance that film, in Rome and elsewhere, systematically recorded the seizure of urban public spaces. As epicenters of political, economic, and

Fashioning Europe: Identity and Dress in Early Modern Costume Books

between people of various origins, age, gender, and, above all, social position. The existence of these differences was presented as part of an order not only social and political but also moral and ... , 1590–1630,” inDressing Global Bodies: The Political Power of Dress in World History, ed. Beverly Lemire and Giorgio Riello (London: Routledge, 2020), 15. 2 See Surekha Davies, Renaissance Ethnography and

Paternalistic Gratitude: The Theory and Politics of Confucian Political Obligation

While researchers have offered remonstration-oriented, reciprocal, voluntary, and gratitude-based accounts of political obligation in classical Confucianism, I argue that these interpretations are ... justify Socrates’s obedience to Athens (Plato 1997) . But far from being a problem for ancient philosophy, the question of political obligation is still a topic of debate in the West. Different answers

Artistic Novelties or Political Tools? Circulating Cold War Art Exhibitions in Finland

. This manifested itself especially in the power struggle for world dominance between the superpowers. The United States and the Soviet Union avoided open political or military conflict; instead, they

Partisan Genealogies: Radical Visual (and Political) Practices. An Introduction

This special issue has been conceived in the framework of the project Ré.Part. - Résistance(s) Partisane(s): Culture visuelle, imaginaires collectifs et mémoire révolutionnaire (Université Grenoble Alpes, ANR-15-IDEX-02) and the research project MoDe(s) – Decentralized Modernities: Art, Politics and Counterculture in the Transatlantic Axis during the Cold War (Universidad de...

The Column and the Pediment: The Persistence of Values?

.”1 Images and symbols of the past follow us incessantly in Europe. I thought about this when a spate of political cartoons appeared in the press and media illustrating the dire condition caused by the ... of a common European culture gained prominence after 1945 when political necessities called for a unification of Western Europe. It was then that “for the first time in history the idea of Europe was

Operating with Names: Operational Definitions in the Analects and Beyond

The philosophy of Confucius has often been accused of lacking classical definitions of its core concepts. However, as I shall argue, Confucius systematically used nonclassical definitions—to be ... necessarily partial. All these points are valid also when it comes to operational definitions of the core concepts of ethics and political philosophy, as will be clear after discussing the example of

Europe as a Celebrated Community of Culture. The Council of Europe’s Art Exhibitions in the 1950s

culture in the EU arena for the promotion of a shared European identity has been critically explored, mainly by sociologists, anthropologists and political scientists, who highlighted the exclusionary ... ). entitled L’Εurope. Genèse d’une civilisation, stressed that “Europe was not a political entity of which can easily and usefully write an external, methodical, and classic and unproblematic history. Europe is

Exhibiting Contemporary Art in the Early 1990s Nordic–Baltic Realm

institutional power of the Soviet occupation has served to obscure the arrival of other inter-national and political presences, the ones from Norden. While new Baltic art practices were widely made public in the ... that other international and political presences appeared and had influence. While new Baltic art practices were indeed made public to a large extent in the three countries and their capitals, Tallinn

Illness as Political Metaphor in Modernist Arts in Iran

This article explores a political reading of Iranian modernism and analyses art works through the lens of illness as metaphor. This metaphor first emerged in the discourse of gharbzadegi ... Purdue University Libraries. Please contact for additional information. - Article 4 Follow this and additional works at: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/artlas Article 4. Illness as Political Metaphor in

Art for All! Nordic Art and Cultural Democracy, 1945–1959

exhibitions. By focusing on subject matter and artwork titles presented, the article suggests that the exhibitions can be viewed as part of interacting artistic, civic, and political agendas aiming to ... cities. I will show that the exhibitions can be seen as part of interacting artistic, civic, and political agendas and the result of a civil society in tune with, although not dictated by, political

Universal health coverage: Can anyone afford it?

universal health coverage were available to all. At this same UN meeting, the Political Declaration of the High-level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage[2] was released. I don't think there is anyone who ... primary healthcare model, and significant support from donor funding (which is falling). To me the lesson here is that moving closer to universal health coverage requires not more money, but political will

Art contre/against Apartheid at Lunds Konsthall: an Entangled History of Art and Solidarity from Paris to Pretoria

. The aim with this exhibition was to raise awareness of the apartheid regime, cause international protest and ultimately remove the repressive political system. Using histoire croisée as a method this ... ), was to raise awareness about the South-African apartheid regime, to cause international protest and ultimately help remove a repressive political system. It was a campaign of international solidarity

South-South: Too Political?

When it comes to researching South-South relationships, a powerful political imperative underpins studies of such relationships—an imperative that seems to always point northwards in one way or ... -South: Too Political? hen it comes to researching SouthW South relationships, the study of transnational artistic circulations tends to look at artistic relationships that are intercontinental or even

Critique of Imperial Reason: Lessons from the Zhuangzi

It has often been said that the Zhuangzi 莊子 advocates political abstention, and that its putative skepticism prevents it from contributing in any meaningful way to political thinking: at best the ... .” In Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Early Chinese Ethics and Political Philosophy, edited by Alexus McLeod, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, and Tan Sor Hoon. London: Bloomsbury.Google Scholar Chakrabarti

Perspectives on Changing Cultural Spaces in 19th Century Europe

or institutions in charge of their publication, performance or circulation. The divergent political, religious and administrative organizations of these spaces are also to be taken into consideration ... factors were political, such as protectionism and nationalism; technical, since the industrialization of culture operated very differently in the book trade, in the musical sphere, 2 Christophe Charle, La

Film and Video as a Space for Political Expression and Social Critique in Syria

degrees of severity until the upheavals of 2011 ushered in an entirely new situation. Artistic and creative production became a valuable space for political contestation and for expressing dissent, while

Exposición Mexicana de Pintura y Estampa Contemporáneas. Mexican Art in the Eastern Front 1955: Poland and Bulgaria

. It is hoped that this focused analysis will provide a deeper understanding of its artistic and political objectives, whilst highlighting the activism of the Mexican School in the context of the ... understanding it within the complex and volatile political and cultural context of the Eastern Bloc during the Thaw. While this is a key moment that will determine the future of countries under Soviet control, or

An Antifascist Biennale: ‘Libertà al Cile’ in and from Venice

Italian political context of the seventies. ... intertwined with a political project of civil commitment. The Biennale of 1974, known as B74, is of particular importance for the local, national and international history of the Venice Biennale. It was not