Tributes to Jean Michel Massing: Towards a Global Art History

Tributes to Jean Michel Massing: Towards a Global Art History Mark Stocker, Phillip G. Lindley (eds) Pages: 374 p. Size:210 x 275 mm Illustrations:183 b/w, 22 col. Language(s):English Publication Year:2016 Buy print version ? 200,00 EXCL. VAT RETAIL PRICE ISBN: 978-1-909400-38-2 Hardback Available This book is a Festschrift to honour Jean Michel Massing, Professor of the History of Art at the University of Cambridge, on his retirement and contains essays from 21 of his colleagues and former students. REVIEW(S) "Tributes goes far beyond the remit of a Festschrift by delivering significant contributions across many fields." (Elizabeth Savage, in: The Burlington Magazine, January 2018, CLX, p. 74) SUMMARY An indispensable study for all admirers of Jean Michel Massing's work, this publication includes essays reflecting some of the many fields of research that he has explored throughout his academic career. Twenty-one of Professor Massing's colleagues and former students have contributed to this volume on the occasion of his retirement as Professor of Art at the University of Cambridge. The global aspect of Jean Michel Massing's oeuvre forms the binding element between the various topics covered in this collection, paying homage to the interdisciplinary nature of his approach to the field of art history. Defying strictly linear, spatio-temporal trajectories, this volume is an ongoing conversation with Professor Massing, ambitiously taking his brilliant work as the inspiration and basis for the further development of a global history of art. TABLE OF CONTENTS Phillip Lindley, Introduction, Barry Bergdoll, Memento mori or Eternal Modernism? The Bauhaus at MoMA, 1938 Susanna Berger, Philander Colutius and the Visualisation of Natural Philosophy Roger Bowdler, Stefano della Bella in Shoreditch: the monument of Elizabeth Benson Jerome Feldman, Transgressions in the House of the Chief: Hilimondregeraya village in South Nias Indonesia Victoria George, Calvin in Mondrian's Colour Theory Meredith Hale, The Production of History: Famiano Strada's De Bello Belgico Aleksandra Koutny Jones, Preaching the Dance of Death: The Reverend Marcin Krajewski's Cemetery Chapel at Zambrów Berthold Kress, The Block-book Biblia Pauperum as a Source for Printed Borders in France, Germany and England Phillip Lindley, The Poetics of the Tudor Beast Elizabeth Mc Grath, Ernest van Veen and the "Black But Beautiful" bride Robin Middleton, A Cautionary Tale: The History of Eighteenth-Century Architecture in France Jennifer Montagu, The After-Life of Some Models by Alessando Algardi Temi Odumosu, Rude Encounters: The "Jolly Nigger Bank" as a Visual Problem from America to Denmark Greg Rubinstein, Abraham Mathijs, Whale-Fisherman: Author of the First True Topographical Drawing of North America? Charles Saumarez Smith, The Rubens at King's Giancarlo M.G. Scoditti, An Ethnographical Divertissement on Tribal Art and Picasso's First Cubism Aya Soika, The Sale of Emil Nolde's New Guinea Watercolours to the German Imperial Colonial Office Mark Stocker, Maori, Modernism and Monumentality: Molly Macalister's Maori Warrior Paul Taylor, 'Mass' and 'Massing' from Karel van Mander to Roger Fry Nicholas Tromans, "The Elements": A Fresco Cycle by George Frederic Watts Jutta Vinzent, Austria in Die Zeitung: The Instrumentalisation of Émigré Newspapers during World War Two and the Subversive Power of Cartoons. Language : English text