The Power of Symbols
The Alhambra in a Global Perspective
Published on 15. June 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
392 pages
978-3-0343-2727-5 (ISBN)
Description
This volume intends to foster a re-interpretation of the Nasrid architecture of the Alhambra in Granada and its post-Islamic appropriation and global diffusion. Taking into account the current debates on otherness, cultural exchange and artistic transfer, hybridization, stylistic renewal and national identity building, this collection of essays explores the significance of the Alhambra from the Nasrid period to the present time. Built as a military fortress and gradually enlarged to a multi-functional palace city, by the 19th century the Alhambra became a symbol of exoticism and reverie. As one of the most important legacies of the Islamic heritage of al-Andalus, its role as a mediator between East and West is more important than ever.
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Francine Giese is SNSF professor at the University of Zurich. Within her current research project «Mudejarismo and Moorish Revival in Europe» she has organized various international conferences and exhibitions dealing with the appropriation of Hispano-Islamic architecture in medieval Iberian and 19th century Europe. Her research interests are art and architecture of the Islamic World, exchange and transfer processes in the Middle Ages, reception of Islamic aesthetics in the 19th century, heritage preservation in the Islamic World, and Islamic art and the museum. Recent publications: Bauen und Erhalten in al-Andalus (Peter Lang, 2016) and The Myth of the Orient (Peter Lang, 2016) co-edited with Ariane Varela Braga.
Ariane Varela Braga is SNSF assistant at the University of Zurich, in the project «Mudejarismo and Moorish Revival in Europe», directed by Francine Giese. She has taught at John Cabot University and has been a fellow of the Swiss Institute in Rome. Among her interests are the theory of ornamentation, the transfer of decorative and architectural models in the 19th century, and the relation between text and image. Recent publications : Une théorie universelle au milieu du XIXe siècle. La Grammar of Ornament d'Owen Jones (Campisano Editore, 2017) and A Fashionable Style. Carl von Diebitsch und das maurische Revival (Peter Lang, 2017) co-edited with Francine Giese.
Content
Luis Calvo Merino: Preface - Francine Giese/Ariane Varela Braga: The Power of Symbols. The Alhambra in a Global Perspective - Carmen Rallo Gruss: "...En el mundo nosotros debemos nuestra fortuna a nuestras espada", Muhammad V promotor de las pinturas de la Sala de los Reyes en la Alhambra - Sarah Keller: Slivers of Light: Stained Glass in Al-Andalus - Fernando Valdes Fernandez: Arqueologia y melancolia. Algunas observaciones a la biografia de Don Leopoldo Torres Balbas - Carlos Ruiz Souza: El Palacio de los Leones de la Alhambra: espacio de virtud del principe - Manuel Parada Lopez de Corselas: Jan van Eyck and the Alhambra of Granada in Context - Edhem Eldem: The Ottomans and the Alhambra: Inspiration or Ignorance? - Helena Lahoz Kopiske: Eine monumentale Synagoge fuer Sepharad. Die Synagoge des Samuel ha-Levi in Toledo - Fani Gargova: The Alhambra and the Dream of Sefarad - Barbara von Orelli: Gottfried Semper's Dresden Synagogue Revised: An Echo of the Alhambra? - Hildegard Fruebis: Die Neue Synagoge in Berlin (1866) und die Alhambra. Die Adaption maurischer Stilelemente und die Re-Orientalisierung des europaeischen Judentums - Asun Gonzalez Perez: Rafael Contreras and the Re-Shaping of the Alhambra in the 19th Century - Rafael Comez Ramos: Alhambra de Granada versus Alcazar de Sevilla - Laura Castro Royo: La insercion del pasado islamico en la identidad nacional espanola a traves de la arquitectura revival: el caso del Palacio de Laredo - Henrik Karge: Zwischen Imagination und Formanalyse. Die Alhambra in der fruehen deutschen Kunstgeschichtsschreibung - Francine Giese: An Inclination for the Moorish Style. Architects and Networks in 19th-Century Germany - Josephin Heller: Die Alhambra-Rezeption in Dresden. Carl von Diebitschs Maurisches Bad auf Schloss Albrechtsberg - Pedro A. Galera Andreu: La Alhambra y el orientalismo islamico: la vision de artistas y viajeros romanticos - Sarah Tabbal: Maria Fortunys Die Ermordung der Abencerragen. Zur Alhambra als Projektionsflaeche und Symboltraegerin imaginierter Vergangenheit in der Malerei des 19. Jahrhunderts - Ariane Varela Braga: Building a Dream: the Alhambra in the Villa of Sammezzano - Nadezhda Stanulevich: The Photographs of the Alhambra at the Russian Academy of Fine Arts Museum - Luidmilla Kondratenko/Ekaterina Saviona: The History of the Alhambra Models Collection in Russia - Katrin Kaufmann: Building "Moorish Wonders": Alhambrism in Tsarist Russia - Ieva Kalnaca: El alhambrismo en tierras de Letonia durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX y primer tercio del siglo XX - Antonieta Emparan: Palacio de la Alhambra: un orientalismo chileno del siglo XIX - Davy Depelchin: Orientalism Challenged. The Spanish Pavilion at the 1910 Brussels International Exhibition