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
- Contributors
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- About the author(s)/editor(s)
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- 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
Adriana De Angelis (Naples/Italy) - Skyscrapers – Strong Images of Culture and Art; Globalized
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Adriana De Angelis
Skyscrapers – Strong Images of Culture and Art; Globalized
Abstract This article shows how skyscrapers have developed into globalized symbols of modernity and (political) power since they were attributed these qualities in New York City during the 1920s and 1930s.
Dieser Artikel zeigt, wie Wolkenkratzer sich in globale Symbole von Modernität und (politischer) macht entwickelt haben, seit ihnen im New York der 1920er und 1930er Jahre diese Attribute zugeschrieben wurden.
In 1927, during the Weimar Republic, a most significant silent motion picture, Metropolis, realized by Austrian, Expressionist director Fritz Lang, was released in Germany. It talked about the dystopia of the modern city as a result of human insanity and its power of transforming masses into machines, and, consequently, the world into hell. In this film, Art was used as the expression of the soul which, at the time, the world was learning to study thanks to Freud and his theories; while Architecture was the icon of the social reality that formed and emphasized the scenery in which action took place. The focus was on the city and, above all, on skyscrapers; seen as tall symbols of modernity, and reflections of the most harmful outcome of power, and of the dark side of human beings and their insane emotions. The uneven forms of the tall buildings, derived from van Gogh’s pictures and Schiele’s landscapes, made grief touchable. The city sketched by scenographers, such as Otto Hunte,...
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- 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
- 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