Charlotte Klonk

Michael Hatt

This book provides a lively and stimulating introduction to methodological debates within art history. Offering a lucid account of approaches from Hegel to post-colonialism, the book provides a sense of art history's own history as a discipline from its emergence in the late-eighteenth century to contemporary debates.

A Critical Introduction to Its Methods

Art History

This fascinating study of art gallery interiors examines the changing ideals and practices of galleries in Europe and North America from the 18th to the late 20th century. It offers a detailed account of the different displays that have been created—the colors of the background walls, lighting, furnishings, the height and density of the art works on show—and it traces the different scientific, political and commercial influences that lay behind their development. Charlotte Klonk shows that scientists like Hermann von Helmholtz and Wilhelm Wundt advanced theories of perception that played a significant role in justifying new modes of exhibiting. Equally important for the changing modes of exhibition in art galleries was what Michael Baxandall has called “the period eye,” a way of seeing informed by the impact of new fashions in interior decoration and by department store and shop window displays. The history of museum interiors, she argues, should be appreciated as a revealing chapter in the broader history of experience.

Art Gallery Interiors from 1800 to 2000

Spaces of Experience

Jens Eder

Still and moving images are crucial factors in contemporary political conflicts. They not only have representational, expressive or illustrative functions, but also augment and create significant events. Beyond altering states of mind, they affect bodies and often life or death is at stake. Various forms of image operations are currently performed in the contexts of war, insurgency and activism. Photographs, videos, interactive simulations and other kinds of images steer drones to their targets, train soldiers, terrorise the public, celebrate protest icons, uncover injustices, or call for help. They are often parts of complex agential networks and move across different media and cultural environments. This book is a pioneering interdisciplinary study of the role and function of images in political life. Balancing theoretical reflections with in-depth case studies, it brings together renowned scholars and activists from different fields to offer a multifaceted critical perspective on a crucial aspect of contemporary visual culture.

Visual media and political conflict

Image operations

Die Propagandavideos der IS-Kämpfer sind nichts Neues. Im Gegenteil, Terroristen haben sich schon immer der Bilder bedient, um ihre Anliegen medial zu verbreiten – und ebenso ihr Feind, der Staat. Charlotte Klonk zeigt in ihrer Studie ›Terror. Wenn Bilder zu Waffen werden‹, welche Rolle die Bilder des Terrors seit dem 19. Jahrhundert bis in unsere unmittelbare Gegenwart spielen. In konkreten Falluntersuchungen und mit kunsthistorisch geschultem Blick arbeitet sie die Bildstrategien heraus, ordnet diese in ihre geschichtliche Entwicklung ein und beantwortet am Ende die dringende Frage nach dem ethischen Umgang mit Terrorbildern. Ein unverzichtbares Buch, um die Hintergründe des allgegenwärtigen Terrorismus zu verstehen.

Wenn Bilder zu Waffen werden

Terror

New laboratory buildings are currently being planned all around the world. Are they different from or even better than their predecessors? To answer this question, the authors of this book have journeyed into the past and present of laboratory architecture and found a remarkable variety of approaches with regard to both the functional relation of spaces and the symbolic value of the façade.

Historical and Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Developments

New Laboratories

A powerful book that provides new interdisciplinary perspective on the functions of still and moving images in political conflict.

Visual Media and Political Conflict

Image Operations

Remo H. Largo

Carolin Emcke

Güner Yasemin Balci

Karl-Heinz Göttert

Rainer Erlinger

Matthias Wolfschmidt

Andreas Kraß

Andre Wilkens

Christine Ott

Ilija Trojanow

Harald Welzer

Was sind die Themen, die uns 2018 beschäftigen werden? »Denk mal! 2018« versammelt aktuelle Texte aus den Bereichen Kultur, Philosophie und Wissenschaft – geschrieben von einigen der klügsten Köpfe unserer Gegenwart, u.a. von Carolin Emcke, Remo H. Largo, Christine Ott, Charlotte Klonk, Ilija Trojanow, Harald Welzer und Andre Wilkens. Die Themen sind u.a. die aktuelle Lage Europas, der Ruf des deutschen Essens, Nutztierhaltung, die Geschichte der Bibelübersetzung, Freundschaft und Individualität sowie der Umgang mit Terrorbildern. Sie bieten uns ein breites Spektrum an Ideen, Impulsen und Anregungen zum Nachdenken. Dabei beschäftigen sie sich mit den wichtigsten Themen unserer Zeit und sind Wegbegleiter für das ganze Jahr.

Anregungen von Carolin Emcke, Harald Welzer, Andre Wilkens, Remo H. Largo und Ilija Trojanow

Denk mal! 2018

Charlotte Klonk

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