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Moral Seascapes
On the Ethics and Aesthetics of Maritime Emergency
2024 || Paperback || Chiara Giubilaro e.a. || Leuven University Press
We are no strangers today to visual representations of human suffering at sea: the refugee crisis that continues to play out in the seascape between Europe and Africa (and not only there) yields an ever-growing archive of humanitarian tragedy. As both a visual backdrop and a lethal medium of unequal mobility, maritime space and landscape play a significant role in mediating the ethical demands of this crisis. Yet there has been little exploration of the longer history of morality’s role in ...
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Art History after Deleuze and Guattari
2017 || Paperback || Sjoerd van Tuinen e.a. || Leuven University Press
At the crossroads of philosophy, artistic practice, and art history.Though Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari were not strictly art historians, they reinvigorated ontological and formal approaches to art, and simultaneously borrowed art historical concepts for their own philosophical work. They were dedicated modernists, inspired by the German school of expressionist art historians such as Riegl, Wölfflin, and Worringer and the great modernist art critics such as Rosenberg, Steinberg, Greenbe...
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Lumumba’s Iconography in the Arts
|| Paperback || Matthias De Groof || Leuven University Press
It is no coincidence that a historical figure such as Patrice Emery Lumumba, independent Congo’s first prime minister, who was killed in 1961, has lived in the realm of the cultural imaginary and occupied an afterlife in the arts. After all, his project remained unfinished and his corpse unburied. The figure of Lumumba has been imagined through painting, photography, cinema, poetry, literature, theatre, music, sculpture, fashion, cartoons and stamps, and also through historiography and in p...
Cold War Art Worlds
South Asian Art and Artists in Prague, 1947-1989
2025 || Paperback || Simone Wille || Leuven University Press
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Collecting Asian Art
Cultural Politics and Transregional Networks in Twentieth-Century Central Europe
2024 || Paperback || Markéta Hánová e.a. || Leuven University Press
Rather than centring on the well-known collections in Western European and North American museums, Collecting Asian Art turn to museum collections of Asian art in Central Europe which emerged from the late 19th century onwards. Highlighting the dimensions of Central European connectedness, this volume explores how these collections evolved and changed under changing cultural and political conditions from the pre-World War I to the post-World War II periods. With a primary focus on collections...
Animal Modernities
Images, Objects, Histories
2025 || Paperback || Catherine Girard e.a. || Leuven University Press