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Arts Pub Date : 2024-10-02 DOI: 10.3390/arts13050151

Merlijn Hurx

{"title":"Gothic Locks: Pioneering Drawings for Hydraulic Works in 16th-Century Holland","authors":"Merlijn Hurx","doi":"10.3390/arts13050151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/arts13050151","url":null,"abstract":"Just as Gothic cathedrals have long dominated the perception of medieval architecture, the spectacular drawings of the German lodges have shaped our view of the medieval design process. However, their towering importance has diverted scholarly attention from alternative drafting practices and reinforced the view of a homogeneous Gothic design practice based on quadrature. Historians generally accept that in the 16th century a new Renaissance graphic language challenged and ultimately replaced the Gothic tradition north of the Alps. However, this antagonistic narrative of one dominant practice superseding the other needs to be re-examined because hitherto neglected drawings for other types of buildings reveal that medieval drafting practice was more varied and open to new developments than is often believed. This paper will examine three rare sets of architectural drawings, together consisting of over thirty sheets, made for three stone sluices in the provinces of Utrecht and Holland between 1556 and 1563. They show that for technically demanding hydraulic works, drawings directed every step of the process, from enabling discussion of the most suitable design to guiding the stonemasons in the execution of the work. Moreover, they demonstrate that for such projects, Gothic masters did not adhere to tradition but engaged with new design methods, using scale, colour, and multiple views to convey all aspects of the project, thus indicating that changes in style and method were not always interrelated.","PeriodicalId":30547,"journal":{"name":"Arts","volume":"70 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142385003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Judith Leyster’s A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel: An Intersectional Approach 朱迪斯-莱斯特的《一个男孩和一个女孩与一只猫和一条鳗鱼》：跨学科方法

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Arts Pub Date : 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.3390/arts13050150

Elizabeth Sutton

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Designed Segregation: Racial Space and Social Reform in San Juan’s Casa de Beneficencia 设计隔离：圣胡安慈善之家的种族空间与社会改革

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Arts Pub Date : 2024-09-26 DOI: 10.3390/arts13050147

Paul Barrett Niell

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How Did 19th-Century Alphorns Sound? A Reconstruction Based on Written Accounts of Its Musical Timbre 19 世纪竖笛的音色如何？根据有关其音乐音色的文字记载进行重构

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Arts Pub Date : 2024-09-25 DOI: 10.3390/arts13050146

Yannick Wey

{"title":"How Did 19th-Century Alphorns Sound? A Reconstruction Based on Written Accounts of Its Musical Timbre","authors":"Yannick Wey","doi":"10.3390/arts13050146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/arts13050146","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reconstructs the sound of 19th-century alphorns based on contemporary written descriptions, which allows for a better understanding of literature and compositions that quoted and imitated the alphorn throughout the 19th century. In the absence of sound recordings, historical documents and literary sources provide valuable insights into the timbre of these traditional Alpine instruments. The research examines descriptions from 19th-century texts, comparing them with modern understandings of musical timbre. By analyzing the language used to describe the alphorn’s sound, the study identifies recurring descriptors and contextualizes them within the broader acoustic environment, including the influence of natural sounds like waterfalls and echoes. Historical sources reveal a complex perception of the alphorn’s timbre, described in terms of its resemblance to muted trumpets and a blend of brass and woodwind qualities. Authors such as Hermann Alexander von Berlepsch and François-Joseph Fétis provided detailed accounts, noting contrasting characteristics like “rough”, “soft”, “sharp”, and “melodious”, which varied with the listener’s distance from the instrument. These descriptions highlight the alphorn’s unique sound profile, distinct from modern perceptions that emphasize a warmer, fuller timbre. The findings underscore the importance of considering ecological and psychoacoustic contexts in the study of historical musical instruments.","PeriodicalId":30547,"journal":{"name":"Arts","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142317553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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‘Archetypal Load of Tension’: Idiosyncratic Idioms of Surrealism Created by Aleksander Krzywobłocki and Margit Reich-Sielska in the 1930s in Lviv 张力的原型负载"：Aleksander Krzywobłocki 和 Margit Reich-Sielska 1930 年代在利沃夫创作的超现实主义成语

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Arts Pub Date : 2024-09-24 DOI: 10.3390/arts13050145

Irena Kossowska

{"title":"‘Archetypal Load of Tension’: Idiosyncratic Idioms of Surrealism Created by Aleksander Krzywobłocki and Margit Reich-Sielska in the 1930s in Lviv","authors":"Irena Kossowska","doi":"10.3390/arts13050145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/arts13050145","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the artistic contributions of two members of the ‘artes’ group, active in Lviv (Lwów during the interwar period) from 1929 to 1935: Aleksander Krzywobłocki (1901–1979) and Margit Reich-Sielska (1900–1980). Situated within the ‘artes’ milieu, which emerged as the most cohesive community among phenomena with a surrealist profile in the history of Polish art, their creative endeavors have faded from the collective memory of subsequent generations of art historians and critics, both within and beyond Poland. With the aim of elucidating the distinctive characteristics of Krzywobłocki and Sielska’s artistic attitudes, deeply rooted in the cultural landscape of interwar Galicia, this study explores their work as both manifestations of the avant-garde milieu in Lviv and contributions to the transnational surrealist movement. This examination takes a relational approach, considering their artistic output within a framework of trans-local and trans-regional connections. Drawing upon the works of various surrealists active in different European centers, I juxtapose the artistic approaches of Krzywobłocki and Sielska with other practitioners of the movement to highlight both convergences and differences in their expressions. By situating their artistic profiles within the broader modalities of surrealism as a polycentric movement and within the unique cultural context of Lviv—a city marked by its multiethnic, multicultural, and multiconfessional character—I argue that their imaginings should be classified as idiosyncratic idioms of surrealism. This hybrid expression, which developed on the peripheries of European artistic hubs, is primarily distinguished by an ‘archetypal load of tension’—a continual quest for archetypal content that has been lost in the modern world.","PeriodicalId":30547,"journal":{"name":"Arts","volume":"120 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142313737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Fold as a Design Strategy: Analogy between Architecture and Issey Miyake’s Work 折叠作为一种设计策略：建筑与三宅一生作品的类比

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Arts Pub Date : 2024-09-23 DOI: 10.3390/arts13050144

Marta Muñoz, Ángel Cordero

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Aesthetics of Afro-Andean Smoking Culture: Early Modern Peruvian Tobacco Pipes at the Edge of the Atlantic World 非洲安第斯吸烟文化的美学：大西洋世界边缘的早期现代秘鲁烟斗

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Arts Pub Date : 2024-09-20 DOI: 10.3390/arts13050143

Brendan J. M. Weaver, Jerry Smith Solano Calderon, Miguel Ángel Fhon Bazán

{"title":"Aesthetics of Afro-Andean Smoking Culture: Early Modern Peruvian Tobacco Pipes at the Edge of the Atlantic World","authors":"Brendan J. M. Weaver, Jerry Smith Solano Calderon, Miguel Ángel Fhon Bazán","doi":"10.3390/arts13050143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/arts13050143","url":null,"abstract":"Although situated at the geographic margin of the early modern Atlantic World, the Pacific coast of Peru was an important region in the development of African diasporic material culture. Adopting an interdisciplinary material historical approach, we present the first systematic discussion of the known Afro-Atlantic-style tobacco pipes to be archaeologically recovered in Peru. Eighteen Afro-Atlantic-style tobacco pipes or pipe sherds dating to Peru’s Spanish colonial period have been identified across sites in the coastal cities of Lima and Trujillo and from a vineyard hacienda in rural Nasca. Tobacco pipes are among the most recognized and debated forms of early modern Atlantic African and diasporic expressions of material culture, as such, they present a powerful entry point to understanding the aesthetic consequences of colonial projects and diverse articulations across the Atlantic World. The material history of Afro-Atlantic smoking culture exemplifies how aesthetics moved between localities and developed diasporic entanglements. In addition to the formal analysis and visual description of the pipes, we examine historical documentation and the work of nineteenth-century Afro-Peruvian watercolorist Francisco (Pancho) Fierro to better understand the aesthetics of Afro-Andean smoking culture in Spanish colonial and early Republican Peru.","PeriodicalId":30547,"journal":{"name":"Arts","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142306282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Exploring Artistic Hierarchies among Painters in Ramesside Deir el-Medina 探索拉梅赛德代尔麦地那画家的艺术等级制度

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Arts Pub Date : 2024-09-20 DOI: 10.3390/arts13050141

Jennifer Miyuki Babcock

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The Author Takes a Bow: A Self-Portrait in Assistenza in the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari 作者鞠躬：Deir el-Bahari 哈特谢普苏特神庙中的《阿西滕扎自画像

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Arts Pub Date : 2024-09-20 DOI: 10.3390/arts13050142

Anastasiia Stupko-Lubczynska

{"title":"The Author Takes a Bow: A Self-Portrait in Assistenza in the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari","authors":"Anastasiia Stupko-Lubczynska","doi":"10.3390/arts13050142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/arts13050142","url":null,"abstract":"In art-historical terms, a self-portrait in assistenza refers to an artist having inserted their own likeness into a larger work. In Renaissance-era art, more than 90 examples have been identified, famously including Botticelli’s Adoration of the Magi (c. 1478/1483). There, Botticelli glances out from the painting, making direct eye contact with the viewer, a feature that appears in other self-portraits of the type. In ancient Egypt, it was not commonly accepted that an artist would lay claim to it, especially when the work’s scale imposed diversification of tasks to be performed or teamwork organized on a workshop basis. This article will present evidence discovered in the Chapel of Hatshepsut in her temple at Deir el-Bahari that can be interpreted as a self-portrait in assistenza and indicates that Djehuty, Overseer of the Treasury under Hatshepsut, took the lead role there. If this identification is valid, the room’s decoration gains an additional layer of meaning and may be “read” in terms of Djehuty’s message, comparable to Botticelli gazing out from his Adoration of the Magi. This ancient Egyptian case will illustrate how that artist-designer, in interweaving subtle indicators of his involvement in the work, expresses awareness both of his intellectual skills and of his pride in creation.","PeriodicalId":30547,"journal":{"name":"Arts","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142306292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Empathy and Listening in Research-Based Theatre 研究型戏剧中的移情与倾听

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Arts Pub Date : 2024-09-19 DOI: 10.3390/arts13050140

Christina Cook, George Belliveau, Luke Bokenfohr

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