Girl with Dead Bird: Intercultural Observations

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-94-6270-137-3
Verlag: LEUVEN UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 236 g

Life and death in a sixteenth-century masterpiece

The portrait we have come to call Little Girl with Dead Bird is an enigma. On the
one hand, we hardly know anything about this sixteenth-century masterpiece. But
even so, on the other hand, the picture fascinates viewers to this day. This
painting's indeterminate yet compelling status provides Volkmar Mühleis grounds
to look beyond its historical significance and to explore its anthropological
scope as well, from an intercultural perspective and, moreover, against the
backdrop of its complex of themes concerning life and death. To do so, Mühleis
returns to the conceptual premises that frame the relationship between the
history of art and the anthropology of images, along with those that juxtapose
Western and Eastern philosophies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Muhleis, Volkmar

Mühleis, Volkmar

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Little girl with dead bird

Art-historical considerations

Thoughts on
life and death (I)

Intercultural
comparisons

Thoughts on
life and death (II)

Art and
anthropology

Thoughts on
life and death (III)

Notes

List of illustrations

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Mühleis, Volkmar
Volkmar Mühleis teaches philosophy and aesthetics at LUCA School of Arts in Brussels and Ghent. His research enfolds studies on blindness and art, artistic practice and theory, and politics and art, among others. As reviewer he publishes regularly in Philosophische Rundschau.