919 research outputs found
On the “Odoresque” and “Aero-Perfumes”: Smell Related Neologisms in Avant-garde and Contemporary Art and Scholarship
No full textFor her doctoral dissertation “In Search of Lost Scents,” art and scent historian Caro Verbeek (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Kunstmuseum, The Hague) collected olfactory neologisms or newly invented smell related words from (art) historical sources ranging from 1855 to 1975, which she categorised according to the themes poetry, mind, concepts, material and synaesthesia. Three never-before-published artistic illustrations by the author help establish a more embodied cognition of the meaning of some of these concepts, as including “smell images” is impossible. In addition, she has created a “synaesthetic odour wheel” based on literary sources (2021).</p
Sul naso :Una storia culturale
No full textIn 'Een kleine cultuurgeschiedenis van de (grote) neus' neemt Caro Verbeek de lezer mee op een reis langs opvallende neuzen in de westerse kunst en cultuur. Van Michelangelo, Rembrandt en Gogol tot Barbie, Barbra Streisand en #sideprofileselfie. Verbeek laat zien hoezeer ons esthetische oordeel afhangt van culturele omstandigheden waarvan we ons vaak nauwelijks bewust zijn. Maar bovenal is het een lofzang op de neus, in al zijn vormen en afmetingen. Als student kunstgeschiedenis kwam Caro Verbeek in aanraking met een enorme variëteit aan prachtige neuzen: groot en klein, recht en gebogen, plat en puntig. In veel portretten bleken markante exemplaren nog eens extra te zijn aangezet door de kunstenaar.Hoewel het hedendaagse schoonheidsideaal anders doet vermoeden, werd een grote neus in het verleden gezien als een indicator van intellect, moed, karakter en status. Zo werd het dodenmasker van Dante gemanipuleerd om hem een echte ‘dichtersneus’ te geven, was de beeltenis van Cleopatra’s adelaarsneus een politieke strategie en schreef de renaissancedichter Annibale Caro zelfs het lofdicht Nasea over de aanzienlijke neus
Displace:Performative Sensory Environments (with Chris Salter, TeZ, David Howes, Jorg Hempenius, Harry Smoak, David Szanto and Caro Verbeek)
No full textThe performative sensory environment Displace 2.0 takes place in the building of the recently dissolved platform TAG in the Hague for the 2012 TodaysArt festival. Displace 2.0 puts your sensory experience in the foreground. Groups of visitors progress through the three floors of the TAG building, encountering a series of environments and experience sensory-based actions that intermingle the senses of smell, taste, sight, sound and touch. At first, these sensory modalities are separated from each other, but then they grow over time to cause intense, almost hallucinatory sensations merging to the point of saturation.Displace 2.0 is the second iteration of works conducted within the context of a larger research project entitled “Mediations of Sensation” developed by Chris Salter and anthropologist David Howes. The aim of “Mediations” is to create a space where contemporary art practice can be informed by advanced research in sensory anthropology and history and vice versa. Sensory anthropology is dedicated to exploring how the senses are distinguished, ranked, mixed, deployed and enjoyed in different cultures. Displace 2.0 mirrors this anthropological experience by offering a sensorially compelling, technologically augmented series of environments designed to open a crack in the conventional Western sensorium and transport the visitor into a parallel sensory world.Cqro Verbeek and Jorg Hempenius were responsible for the smellscape
Do it - smell it!:Temporary Stedelijk at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
No full textMargriet Schavemaker oversaw the 'do it' series and involved all the senses by inviting thinkers, makers and artists to reflect on one. I was invited to curate an interactive night on smell and art. I invited art historian Jim Drobnick, anthropologist Yolanda van Ede and smell marketeer Adam Tasi. Sue Corke created 'postcard from the moon' especially for the event. A boomerang card was produced of Job Koelewijn's work 'Nursery Piece' with the help of SmartNose. Aroma Jockeys Valentina Hulsman and Dr. Perfume aromatized the event which was moderated by me (Caro Verbeek). Several newspapers such as NRC and het Parool payed attention to it, including the renowned magazine ArtNews
Recent Advances in Smellscape Research for the Built Environment
Get PDFThe interrelationships between humans, smells and the built environment have been the focus of increasing numbers of research studies in the past ten years. This paper reviews these trends and identifies the challenges in smellscape research from three aspects: methodological approaches, artistic design interventions and museum practices, and odour policy making. In response to the gaps and challenges identified, three areas of future research have also been identified for this field: smell archives and databases, social justice within odour control and management, and research into advanced building materials. [Abstract copyright: Copyright © 2021 Xiao, Aletta, Radicchi, McLean, Shiner and Verbeek.
Smelling Time - The Olfactory Dimension of Futurism, listening with Caro Verbeek (VU)
No full textOn the content and methodology of my PhD. I elaborate on embodied knowledge, the concepts 'period nose', 'olfactory gaze' and the course I designed called 'Knowing by Sensing' and the need for more embodied approaches within academia
Researchvideo: Caro Verbeek (PhD VU) onderzoekt de historische geuren van de avant-garde
No full textMondrian Moves
No full textIn 2022 it was 150 years since the birth of one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, Piet Mondrian (1872-1944). Kunstmuseum Den Haag, whose Mondrian collection, numbering over 300 items, is the largest in the world, cannot let this pass unnoticed. In 2017 the museum showed all the Mondrians in its collection for the first time in a major retrospective. To mark this year’s anniversary, Benno Tempel and curator Caro Verbeek have created an exhibition exploring Mondrian’s inspiring relationships with friends and fellow artists of his time, and his role as a source of inspiration to many artists who came after him.Kunstmuseum Den Haag’s Mondrian collection spans his entire development as an artist, allowing us to trace in detail his path to abstraction. Mondrian often changed his style dramatically, exchanging his early dark landscapes for the exuberant compositions of De Stijl and the neo-plastic style he helped to develop. Victory Boogie Woogie – Mondrian’s final painting, and a highlight of his oeuvre – is presented in this exhibition as a grande finale, and also as the starting point for post-war and abstract art.Since the 1970s Kunstmuseum Den Haag’s collection of Mondrians has largely informed its acquisitions policy and method, as well as how the museum regards its own collection and contemporary art in general. Over the years the museum has purchased work by a range of artists who feel some connection to Mondrian, including Bridget Riley, Fred Sandback, Rob van Koningsbruggen, Bob Bonies, Isa Genzken and Remy Jungerman. The makers of this exhibition raise the question of what stewardship of such an important and inspiring collection means for a museum. Mondrian Moves will introduce visitors to this perspective, while inviting them to identify connections themselves
Embalming versus Mummification
No full textWith expert in ancient Egyptian smell culture Dora Goldsmith we compared the embalming of Egyptian mummies to the embalming of William of Orange (Willem van Oranje) as researched by Caro Verbee
Acquisitions : a modern view of the Rijksmuseum / Ludo van halem, Hans Rooseboom and Caro Verbeek.
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