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The Importance of Writers-Die Bedeutung von Schriftstellern.

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  Author -Brian Hawkeswood.                                                                               Scroll Down For English Version. Die Beziehung zwischen bildender Kunst und den Schriftstellern, die sie interpretieren—Kunsthistoriker, Kritiker, Philosophen und Kulturkommentatoren—ist zutiefst symbiotisch. Während die Schaffung eines Gemäldes, einer Skulptur oder eines architektonischen Werks ein Akt visueller Kreativität ist, hängt die Rezeption, Interpretation und der dauerhafte Ruhm dieser Werke oft von der sprachlichen Vermittlung ab. Worte beschreiben Kunst nicht nur; sie kontextualisieren, theoretisieren und kanonisieren sie mitunter sogar. Historisch hat die Verbreitung von bildender Kunst durch schriftliche Texte deren Rezeption und Status entscheidend beeinflusst. Giorgio Va...
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Orientalist: A Beautiful Form of Realism.

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     Author: Brian Hawkeswood . There are moments—those languid, gilded intervals of drifting thought—when the mind, suspended between memory and sensation, returns not to places it has known, but to images it has absorbed through the veils of culture and time, images not one’s own yet somehow interwoven with the soft fibres of desire. I speak, of course, of the Orient —not the Orient as it is, or was, but as it once shimmered across the canvases of Gérôme , Ingres, Delacroix, and those others who, seated in their Parisian ateliers or voyaging briefly into the Mediterranean light, composed with loving precision a world that never quite existed, and yet one we all seem to remember. A world of silken draperies , tiled courtyards, sunburnt domes, reclining odalisques with skin like pearl and limbs curved into the arabesque of private leisure. And it is precisely in this unreality—in this meticulous unreality—that we discover a curious truth: the Orientalists, though condem...
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