Imaginary Negotiations

Virtuality in Premodern Image Spaces
Auflage - Neueauflage
ISBN: 978-3-8376-8031-7
Verlag: transcript

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 391 g

Reihe: Virtuelle Lebenswelten

1. Why did you choose this topic?

A key aspect was a methodological broadening of disciplinary boundaries. The contributions in this volume focus on the question of how pictorial spaces not only provide a decorative framework for negotiations, but are also actively involved in the normative framing of specific actions. Concepts of virtuality help to define the relationship between images, forms and negotiation processes more precisely.

2. What new perspectives does your book offer?

A new perspective, made possible by all the contributions in this volume, is the question of the interrelationship between bodies, spaces and works of art – be they architectural works, interior designs or pictorial programs – beyond strictly defined genre boundaries. Art-historical approaches, which are often limited to visual phenomena, are supplemented by approaches from embodiment and virtuality research in order to analyze the imaginative and conceptual spaces of normative frameworks.

3. What makes your topic relevant for current research debates?

This topic establishes a connection between virtual technology and concepts of virtuality. As VR is set to shape future visualities, it is crucial to explore and debate the historical origins of virtuality as a concept of knowledge transfer particularly in the context of art.

4. Choose one person you would like to discuss your book with!

Professor Caroline van Eck.

5. Your book summary in one sentence:

Historical spaces of negotiations cannot be understood without the concept of virtuality, which considers the contingency and potentiality of norms.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Behrmann, Carolin

Seewald, Helene

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Seewald, Helene
Helene Seewald (M.A.) ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im SFB 1567 »Virtuelle Lebenswelten« an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Sie forscht zu virtuellen und imaginären Bildräumen der Frühen Neuzeit und befasst sich dabei mit didaktischen Wissensmodellen auf dem Gebiet der Druckgrafik.

Behrmann, Carolin
Carolin Behrmann is professor for art history at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Her research focuses on art and image history in the early modern period, political iconology, visual cultures of law, and pre-modern virtual ›image spaces‹. She obtained her doctorate at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2011 and has worked at the Max Planck Institute for Art History in Florence until 2019 leading the Minerva research group »The Nomos of Images«. She received international fellowships from e.g. the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, The Italian Academy, Columbia University New York.