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7 Introduction Images are not only produced and presented to be looked at. They are created, used, and circulated as agents of opinion-forming processes, societal transforma- tion, and political change. In historical visual cultures, politically and religiously motivated image practices have a
life of Christ. The first pair of window lancets juxtaposes scenes from Christ’s infancy with Old Testament types, while scenes from Christ’s ministry are in the center, and the third pair of lancets to the right contains images of the Passion. These stained- glass scenes occupy a privileged
nobility. At the same time they are also unable to understand how God as the first cause relates to a virtuous life. Hence, they lose both their belief in God and their belief in the goodness of living virtuously. Time and again, Averroes criticizes Muslim theologians who »strayed and led astray« for
contem- porary art on a global scale, resulting in what has been designated as global art activism or in short: artivism.1 Socially and politically engaged artists have found new missions in intervening in the public sphere at the interface between state governance and civil community life in order to
Chí Minh, a statesman and revolutionary leader whose iconic representations are not only displayed in the public and private spheres, but are also to be found in Buddhist pagodas. This contribution explores the veneration of Hò̂ Chí Minh, who was already considered a deity during his life- time
and transformation of the figure was an ancient Indian one – namely, to celebrate the woman as devotional object. This discourse motivated me, in turn, to regard the Pietas Regia as a model for erotic Mughal representations of Laila, the be- loved of Majnun and the unhappy romantic lover of Persian
the area in front of the door as a place of the expelled. The depicted scene of the Expulsion from Paradise, in which Adam and Eve are shown shortly before crossing through a door, already visualizes the idea that humanity’s earthly life was preceded by a banishment and that earthly existence is
be easy. But we will succeed at it. The view of the ruins of Potsdam and Berlin that I now have to stroll through each day should not be a cause for depression, but motivate me to new achievements.” 6 Museumsinsel (Museum Island), just like Berlin’s entire city center, was indeed a depressing sight
Wight were produced by artists who were travelling as tourists and were part of the larger British craze for picturesque travelling in the late eighteenth century. This aesthetically motivated travel and art practice sought new destinations within the country, with a notable preference for wild and
celebrated for their proximity to the people and the “primevalness of their Silesian essence”. 21 Living in simple circumstances was also used as an argument in the case of Erich Fuchs. Fuchs, who had been documenting everyday life in the Sudetes region already for several years before the Nazis came to