Over the past 12 years, Ellen Harvey (www. ellenharvey.info/) has exhibited her art pieces around the world, from Berlin, Germany to Lahore, Pakistan. In the process, she has garnered an impressive reputation for both her intriguing uses of materials, from Polaroid™ fil...

The book documents reflections of the circus in the visual arts and literature from the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century, focusing on the subject as addressed in Czech art and literature and setting it within a wider context in and beyond Europe...

In addressing photography's presence in South Australia's contemporary visual arts, it is important to understand the broad range of both conceptual and medium-based approaches, coupled with a plurality of voices, that constitute its make-up. In pursuit of their ideas, ...

This paper introduces the production process on the theme of “Fusion of Japanese Traditional Cultureand its Modern Art,' in which the author has been engaged.　New paintings on “fusuma” or traditional Japanese sliding doors were produced and exhibited in September 2016 f...

Sponsored by Arcadia Fund, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin

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Svetlana talks about her father, the famous Kalmyk artist Garya Rokchinskiy. In 1939 my father participated in a contest of Pushkin’s drawings which he won. The prize was a bicycle, which was so rare at that time that all the boys in the vicinity ran after him. This was...

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In this article, we discuss Simmel's concept of the "hidden king" through two figures: Egon Friedell and Max Raphael. Egon Friedell, a disciple of Karl Kraus, who wrote Kulturgeschichte der Neuzeit, thought along the same lines as Simmel, who described a "clandestine ki...

Hauptpunkt 1 Der Kontakt zwischen Europa und Ägypten hat zwei verschiedenen Sichtweisen im Bezug auf die westlische Kultur geschaffen. Die erste Sichtweise ist eine fonkionierende sozialstrukur welsche als Idol angesehen werden kann. Dir zweite Sichtweise wie die westli...