IMAGES (V) – Images of (Cultural) Values
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Edited By Veronika Bernard
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- Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2016. 199 pp., 14 b/w fig.
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- Veronika Bernard (Innsbruck and Kufstein/Austria) - The IMAGES Project
- Veronika Bernard (Innsbruck and Kufstein/Austria) - Introduction
- General Aspects
- Keti Shehu (Tirana/Albania)/Ambra Pittoni (Turin/Italy) - Responsibility and Economy of Images
- Images of (Cultural) Values in the Arts
- Sibel Almelek İşman (Izmir/Turkey) - The Vanitas: Moral Values in European Art
- Jutta Teuwsen (Düsseldorf/Germany) - Contemporary Japanese Arts: Religion and Technology in the Illustrations of Nature
- Cinla Şeker (Izmir/Turkey) - Anatolian Folk Music Album Cover Images at the Beginning of the Third Millenium
- Images of (Cultural) Values in Film
- Ömer Alkın (Düsseldorf/Germany) - Making Cultural Values Visible in Early Turkish-German Cinema
- Images of (Cultural) Values in Popular Culture
- Simonetta Milli Konewko (Milwaukee, USA) - Images of Work in Collodi’s Pinocchio
- Selma Mokrani Barkaoui (Annaba/Algeria) - “The Gift of the Stranger”: Elkader as a Cultural Utopia
- Roberta Matkovic (Pula/Croatia)/Tanja Habrle (Pula/Croatia) - The Figure of the Mother
- Images of (Cultural) Values in Public Space
- Nerma Cridge (London/UK) - From Trivial to Extremely Serious: We Don’t Even Own Public Space Images Anymore
- Adriana De Angelis (Naples/Italy) - Skyscrapers – Strong Images of Culture and Art; Globalized
- Veronika Bernard (Innsbruck and Kufstein/Austria) - Istanbul’s İstiklal Caddesi Graffiti: Young Istanbul Sprayer Art Doing the Cat-Walk, and Testing Cultural Values
- The Ethnic and Images of (Cultural) Values
- Rubén Gregori (Valencia/Spain) - The Conversion of the Old Testament Patriarchs: The Image of Jewish Conversos in the Lands of the Crown of Aragon (14th–16th Centuries)
- Itzea Goicolea-Amiano (Florence/Italy) - Ambivalent Images of Otherness(es) in the War and the Spanish Occupation of Tetouan (1859–1862)
- Miloud Barkaoui (Annaba/Algeria) - The Case of Quartier Belsunce in Marseilles: of Maghrebi Immigration, Duality of Image, and Conflicting Cultural Values in France
- Images of (Cultural) Values in Literature
- Mirjana Marinkovic (Belgrade/Serbia) - Images of Cultural Values in the Novel A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk
- Neval Berber (Passau/Germany) - “Interesting to be Seen and Experienced”: Some Aspects of Modern Tourist Discourse in George Walter Thornbury’s Accounts on Turkey and the Turks
- Gönül Bakay (Istanbul/Turkey) - Representations of “the Primitive” in Things Fall Apart and Death and King’s Horseman
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- The Editor
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- Veronika Bernard (Innsbruck and Kufstein/Austria) - The IMAGES Project
- Veronika Bernard (Innsbruck and Kufstein/Austria) - Introduction
- General Aspects
- Keti Shehu (Tirana/Albania)/Ambra Pittoni (Turin/Italy) - Responsibility and Economy of Images
- Images of (Cultural) Values in the Arts
- Sibel Almelek İşman (Izmir/Turkey) - The Vanitas: Moral Values in European Art
- Jutta Teuwsen (Düsseldorf/Germany) - Contemporary Japanese Arts: Religion and Technology in the Illustrations of Nature
- Cinla Şeker (Izmir/Turkey) - Anatolian Folk Music Album Cover Images at the Beginning of the Third Millenium
- Images of (Cultural) Values in Film
- Ömer Alkın (Düsseldorf/Germany) - Making Cultural Values Visible in Early Turkish-German Cinema
- Images of (Cultural) Values in Popular Culture
- Simonetta Milli Konewko (Milwaukee, USA) - Images of Work in Collodi’s Pinocchio
- Selma Mokrani Barkaoui (Annaba/Algeria) - “The Gift of the Stranger”: Elkader as a Cultural Utopia
- Roberta Matkovic (Pula/Croatia)/Tanja Habrle (Pula/Croatia) - The Figure of the Mother
- Images of (Cultural) Values in Public Space
- Nerma Cridge (London/UK) - From Trivial to Extremely Serious: We Don’t Even Own Public Space Images Anymore
- Adriana De Angelis (Naples/Italy) - Skyscrapers – Strong Images of Culture and Art; Globalized
- Veronika Bernard (Innsbruck and Kufstein/Austria) - Istanbul’s İstiklal Caddesi Graffiti: Young Istanbul Sprayer Art Doing the Cat-Walk, and Testing Cultural Values
- The Ethnic and Images of (Cultural) Values
- Rubén Gregori (Valencia/Spain) - The Conversion of the Old Testament Patriarchs: The Image of Jewish Conversos in the Lands of the Crown of Aragon (14th–16th Centuries)
- Itzea Goicolea-Amiano (Florence/Italy) - Ambivalent Images of Otherness(es) in the War and the Spanish Occupation of Tetouan (1859–1862)
- Miloud Barkaoui (Annaba/Algeria) - The Case of Quartier Belsunce in Marseilles: of Maghrebi Immigration, Duality of Image, and Conflicting Cultural Values in France
- Images of (Cultural) Values in Literature
- Mirjana Marinkovic (Belgrade/Serbia) - Images of Cultural Values in the Novel A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk
- Neval Berber (Passau/Germany) - “Interesting to be Seen and Experienced”: Some Aspects of Modern Tourist Discourse in George Walter Thornbury’s Accounts on Turkey and the Turks
- Gönül Bakay (Istanbul/Turkey) - Representations of “the Primitive” in Things Fall Apart and Death and King’s Horseman
- Rear Matter
- The Editor
- Contributors
Sibel Almelek İşman (Izmir/Turkey) - The Vanitas: Moral Values in European Art
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Sibel Almelek İşman
The Vanitas: Moral Values in European Art
Abstract The Vanitas is a type of still life picture depicting a collection of objects symbolizing the brevity of life. The Vanitas was especially popular in Dutch art of the 17th century. The aim of this article is to examine Vanitas pictures which have become vehicles for teaching moral lessons.
Vanitas-Bilder verkörpern einen bestimmten Typ Stilleben, das eine Sammlung von Objekten darstellt, die die Kürze des Lebens symbolisieren. Vanitas-Bilder waren insbesondere in der holländischen Kunst des 17. Jahrhunderts beliebt. Ziel dieses Artikels ist es, Vanitas-Bilder zu untersuchen, die zum Vehikel der moralischen Belehrung geworden sind.
The Vanitas is a type of still life picture depicting a collection of objects symbolizing the brevity of life and transience of all earthly pleasures and achievements. Typical motives are a skull, an hourglass, a watch, a smoking candle and a flower losing its petals. Such paintings were especially popular in Dutch and Spanish art of the 17th century (cf. Chilvers 2009, p. 646).
Vanitas still lives reflect the pride Dutch citizens held in their material possessions. But Calvinist morality and humanity tempered that pride (cf. Kleiner 2010, p. 568). Still lives exist above all to delight the senses; but they can also be tinged with a melancholic air. As a result of Holland’s conversion to Calvinism, these visual feasts became vehicles for teaching moral lessons. Most Dutch Baroque...
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- About the author(s)/editor(s)
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- Contents
- Introductory Section
- Veronika Bernard (Innsbruck and Kufstein/Austria) - The IMAGES Project
- Veronika Bernard (Innsbruck and Kufstein/Austria) - Introduction
- General Aspects
- Keti Shehu (Tirana/Albania)/Ambra Pittoni (Turin/Italy) - Responsibility and Economy of Images
- Images of (Cultural) Values in the Arts
- Sibel Almelek İşman (Izmir/Turkey) - The Vanitas: Moral Values in European Art
- Jutta Teuwsen (Düsseldorf/Germany) - Contemporary Japanese Arts: Religion and Technology in the Illustrations of Nature
- Cinla Şeker (Izmir/Turkey) - Anatolian Folk Music Album Cover Images at the Beginning of the Third Millenium
- Images of (Cultural) Values in Film
- Ömer Alkın (Düsseldorf/Germany) - Making Cultural Values Visible in Early Turkish-German Cinema
- Images of (Cultural) Values in Popular Culture
- Simonetta Milli Konewko (Milwaukee, USA) - Images of Work in Collodi’s Pinocchio
- Selma Mokrani Barkaoui (Annaba/Algeria) - “The Gift of the Stranger”: Elkader as a Cultural Utopia
- Roberta Matkovic (Pula/Croatia)/Tanja Habrle (Pula/Croatia) - The Figure of the Mother
- Images of (Cultural) Values in Public Space
- Nerma Cridge (London/UK) - From Trivial to Extremely Serious: We Don’t Even Own Public Space Images Anymore
- Adriana De Angelis (Naples/Italy) - Skyscrapers – Strong Images of Culture and Art; Globalized
- Veronika Bernard (Innsbruck and Kufstein/Austria) - Istanbul’s İstiklal Caddesi Graffiti: Young Istanbul Sprayer Art Doing the Cat-Walk, and Testing Cultural Values
- The Ethnic and Images of (Cultural) Values
- Rubén Gregori (Valencia/Spain) - The Conversion of the Old Testament Patriarchs: The Image of Jewish Conversos in the Lands of the Crown of Aragon (14th–16th Centuries)
- Itzea Goicolea-Amiano (Florence/Italy) - Ambivalent Images of Otherness(es) in the War and the Spanish Occupation of Tetouan (1859–1862)
- Miloud Barkaoui (Annaba/Algeria) - The Case of Quartier Belsunce in Marseilles: of Maghrebi Immigration, Duality of Image, and Conflicting Cultural Values in France
- Images of (Cultural) Values in Literature
- Mirjana Marinkovic (Belgrade/Serbia) - Images of Cultural Values in the Novel A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk
- Neval Berber (Passau/Germany) - “Interesting to be Seen and Experienced”: Some Aspects of Modern Tourist Discourse in George Walter Thornbury’s Accounts on Turkey and the Turks
- Gönül Bakay (Istanbul/Turkey) - Representations of “the Primitive” in Things Fall Apart and Death and King’s Horseman
- Rear Matter
- The Editor
- Contributors
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author(s)/editor(s)
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Introductory Section
- Veronika Bernard (Innsbruck and Kufstein/Austria) - The IMAGES Project
- Veronika Bernard (Innsbruck and Kufstein/Austria) - Introduction
- General Aspects
- Keti Shehu (Tirana/Albania)/Ambra Pittoni (Turin/Italy) - Responsibility and Economy of Images
- Images of (Cultural) Values in the Arts
- Sibel Almelek İşman (Izmir/Turkey) - The Vanitas: Moral Values in European Art
- Jutta Teuwsen (Düsseldorf/Germany) - Contemporary Japanese Arts: Religion and Technology in the Illustrations of Nature
- Cinla Şeker (Izmir/Turkey) - Anatolian Folk Music Album Cover Images at the Beginning of the Third Millenium
- Images of (Cultural) Values in Film
- Ömer Alkın (Düsseldorf/Germany) - Making Cultural Values Visible in Early Turkish-German Cinema
- Images of (Cultural) Values in Popular Culture
- Simonetta Milli Konewko (Milwaukee, USA) - Images of Work in Collodi’s Pinocchio
- Selma Mokrani Barkaoui (Annaba/Algeria) - “The Gift of the Stranger”: Elkader as a Cultural Utopia
- Roberta Matkovic (Pula/Croatia)/Tanja Habrle (Pula/Croatia) - The Figure of the Mother
- Images of (Cultural) Values in Public Space
- Nerma Cridge (London/UK) - From Trivial to Extremely Serious: We Don’t Even Own Public Space Images Anymore
- Adriana De Angelis (Naples/Italy) - Skyscrapers – Strong Images of Culture and Art; Globalized
- Veronika Bernard (Innsbruck and Kufstein/Austria) - Istanbul’s İstiklal Caddesi Graffiti: Young Istanbul Sprayer Art Doing the Cat-Walk, and Testing Cultural Values
- The Ethnic and Images of (Cultural) Values
- Rubén Gregori (Valencia/Spain) - The Conversion of the Old Testament Patriarchs: The Image of Jewish Conversos in the Lands of the Crown of Aragon (14th–16th Centuries)
- Itzea Goicolea-Amiano (Florence/Italy) - Ambivalent Images of Otherness(es) in the War and the Spanish Occupation of Tetouan (1859–1862)
- Miloud Barkaoui (Annaba/Algeria) - The Case of Quartier Belsunce in Marseilles: of Maghrebi Immigration, Duality of Image, and Conflicting Cultural Values in France
- Images of (Cultural) Values in Literature
- Mirjana Marinkovic (Belgrade/Serbia) - Images of Cultural Values in the Novel A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk
- Neval Berber (Passau/Germany) - “Interesting to be Seen and Experienced”: Some Aspects of Modern Tourist Discourse in George Walter Thornbury’s Accounts on Turkey and the Turks
- Gönül Bakay (Istanbul/Turkey) - Representations of “the Primitive” in Things Fall Apart and Death and King’s Horseman
- Rear Matter
- The Editor
- Contributors