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Between visual art and visual text. Intermediality and hypertext: A possible combination for twenty-first century philology
Full text linkThe birth of digital writing, characterized by a process of correction that implies the omission of the preparatory editorial phases of a literary text, has brought about an epochal change in the author-text relationship, now characterized, for the first time in literary history, by the disappearance of autograph documentation. This evident loss would seem to threaten the survival of twenty-first century philology, destined to operate despite the absence of the author’s handwritten documents. But the genetic reconstruction of the text, if taken as a speculative habitus and common research practice, can constitute a valid answer and a new possibility for future philological inquiry which combines literature, music and art in a new Hypermedia.
The compositional history of the work and that of its dissemination can be exemplified by an exhibition of typologically diverse materials, such as images, sounds, videos, which allow us to contextualize the literary text through a multidisciplinary creative process and to reconnect it to the very important and popular field of intermediality studies. This article proposes a few samples of this new research approach regarding Giovanni Boccaccio and his literary masterpiece Decameron
La Filosofia di Andy Warhol and the turmoil of art in Italy, 1983
Full text linkThe article revolves around the first Italian edition of The Philosophy of Andy Warhol. By reconstructing the history of the reception of Warhol in Italy since the 1960s, I position the book within the cultural moment at the turn of the 1980s. I look at the strategies behind the publication and compare it with the original English edition to assess both the editorial presentation and the quality of the translation. Focusing on the similarities as well as the diverging aspects, I argue that the book reinforced the perception of Warhol in Italy as an influential, yet controversial, figure
J v Schlosser, ‘Report on the Habilitation of Dr. Hans Sedlmayr’, trans. Karl Johns
Full text linkA translation of Julius Schlosser’s assessment of Hans Sedlmayr’s application for Habilitation
‘Not enough Baroque’, Review of: Helen Hills (Hg.), Rethinking the Baroque, Farnham, Ashgate 2011. Originally published in Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege: Mitteilungsblatt des Verbandes Deutscher Kunsthistoriker. ISSN: 2510-7534 (https://doi.org/10.11588/kc.2013.3.81104)
Full text linkOnce, when questioned about the originality of Umberto Eco’s Il nome della rosa (1980), Richard Krautheimer gave one of his rare and atypically acerbic replies: “you obviously haven’t read much Sherlock Holmes”. In many ways the volume discussed here provoked in the reviewer a similar response because, when reading through a number of the ten papers presented in these conference proceedings, he kept thinking: “but what about Argan?”. In this case Giulio Carlo Argan playing Canon Doyle, to Gilles Deleuze’s Eco, the latter’s Le Pli of 1988 to Argan’s brilliant but overlooked essay “La retorica e l’arte barocca” of 1955 which is not cited a single time in this book nor present in the bibliography. Acknowledging the importance of Argan (mentioned only in passing on p. 22) would not make Deleuze’s work appear any less innovative, but it certainly would have helped explain more persuasively the significant shifts in post-war perception and reception of the Baroque that were part of the historical preamble to the appearance of Leibniz et le baroque
‘Schlosser redivus‘. Review of: Julius von Schlosser (1866-1938), Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte, vol, 66, 2021. 232 pp., 80 ills, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 70,00 €, ISBN: 978-3-205-21443-4
Full text linkJulius von Schlosser (1866-1938), Commemorative volume of the Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte (vol. 60, 2021) including 13 lectures devoted to the work of Julius Schlosser. The subjects are treated concretely, without academic ‘discourse’, illustrating the generational span and antithesis of a relatively prolific career spent between the museum and university during a period important in defining the goals of the discipline
’Rediscovering objects from Islamic Lands in Enlightenment Europe’. Review of: Rediscovering Objects from Islamic Lands in Enlightenment Europe, ed. by Isabelle Dolezalek and Mattia Guidetti, Studies in Art Historiography, New York and London: Routledge 2022, 188pp, 53 B/W Illustrations, £120, ISBN 9780367609474
Full text linkThis article is a review of the volume Rediscovering Objects from Islamic Lands in Enlightenment Europe, edited by Isabelle Dolezalek and Mattia Guidetti. The volume claims to shed new light on an underestimated chapter in the historiography of the arts of Islam, particularly in their relation to Europe. The volume argues that advanced professionalization and scholarly network-building during the eighteenth century have led to important developments which were ground-breaking for the discipline of Islamic art history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The review follows the six object-led chapters of the book and concludes by placing its claim within a larger historiography of the arts of Islam
Leosini’s Monumenti storici artistici della città di Aquila e suoi contorni: transcribing the author’s annotated copy
Full text linkThis paper, written for the Summer School at L’Aquila, gives a brief overview of the current status of the ongoing research project for the digital edition of the Monumenti storici artistici della città di Aquila e suoi contornicolle notizie de’ pittori scultori architetti ed altri artefici che vi fiorirono (L’Aquila, 1848) by Angelo Leosini (L’Aquila, 1818–1881), with particular attention to the task of text transcription and markup
Max Dvořak and the founding of the "Ljubljana School of Art History"
Full text linkFrance Stele, Vojeslav Mole and Izidor Cankar, who are considered the founders of Slovenian art history as a modern scientific discipline, were all students of Max Dvořak. Traces of the relationship between Dvořak and his three Slovenian students and of his influence over them can be found in different types of sources. I first focus on the preserved personal and intimate documents, their mutual correspondence and on their autobiographical and biographical texts in which we can learn a great deal about Dvořak as a person and teacher. Then I turn to the “historiographical” texts among which Stele’s texts hold a special place; in them he outlined the process of forming the “Ljubljana School of Art History” and defined the origins of its conceptual and methodological framework with one of its key foundations being the ideas of Dvořak
The young Hans Sedlmayr’: Introduction to Sedlmayr translations
Full text linkSince so much emotion has accrued around the figure of Hans Sedlmayr due to his collaboration during the Nazi period in Austria, it has been felt that, however controversial, it might be enlightening to direct attention to less well-known aspects of the earlier part of his prolific, multifaceted and influential career
Georg Sobotka: bibliography and three translations
Full text linkA brief life of Georg Sobotka, the doctoral student of Julius Schlosser afterwards employed at the Berlin museums mentioned in Karl Johns’ article on ‘The young Hans Sedlmayr’. In addition: a bibliography and translations of three reviews: Wilhelm Rolfs, Geschichte der Malerei Neapels; Giuseppe Ceci, Saggio di una bibliografia per la storia delle arti figurative nell’Italia meridionale; Henry Rousseau, La Sculpture aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
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