W. P. Stephens
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198263630
- eISBN:
- 9780191682629
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198263630.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology, History of Christianity
This chapter deals with Zurich and the Swiss confederation, in the context of Zwingli's life and work. After providing a brief background of Zurich and Swiss confederation, it situates him at ...
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This chapter deals with Zurich and the Swiss confederation, in the context of Zwingli's life and work. After providing a brief background of Zurich and Swiss confederation, it situates him at Switzerland at the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th century. Zwingli's reforming ministry was primarily in Zurich, but his sense of being Swiss meant that he had an eye on wining the whole confederation to the gospel of Christ. The difficulties and opportunities he faced were related in part to the civil and religious character of the city and its surrounding territory. It was in a republican setting, with power exercised by a council rather than by a single ruler, that Zwingli lived and worked.Less
This chapter deals with Zurich and the Swiss confederation, in the context of Zwingli's life and work. After providing a brief background of Zurich and Swiss confederation, it situates him at Switzerland at the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th century. Zwingli's reforming ministry was primarily in Zurich, but his sense of being Swiss meant that he had an eye on wining the whole confederation to the gospel of Christ. The difficulties and opportunities he faced were related in part to the civil and religious character of the city and its surrounding territory. It was in a republican setting, with power exercised by a council rather than by a single ruler, that Zwingli lived and worked.
Noel Malcolm
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780198564843
- eISBN:
- 9780191713750
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198564843.003.0005
- Subject:
- Mathematics, History of Mathematics
This chapter chronicles the life of John Pell in London and Zurich from 1652 to 1658. After his return from Breda, John Pell spent nearly two years in England. However, the evidence for this part of ...
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This chapter chronicles the life of John Pell in London and Zurich from 1652 to 1658. After his return from Breda, John Pell spent nearly two years in England. However, the evidence for this part of his life is extremely fragmentary, offering very little in the way of letters or datable personal papers. He was later invited by Cromwell to take the position of special envoy to the Protestant cantons of Switzerland. On March 30, 1654 Pell received his official instructions from Cromwell. His duties were to assure the Protestant cantons of England's good will; to ‘endeavour to shew the true Cause of the Warres which haue beene in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the necessity and Justice thereof on the Parlaments Part’; to hinder any diplomatic efforts made there on behalf of ‘Charles Stewart’; to explain the English position on the Anglo-Dutch war; to encourage the Swiss Protestants to send their sons to the English universities; and to send back to England ‘frequent Accounts’ of his dealings.Less
This chapter chronicles the life of John Pell in London and Zurich from 1652 to 1658. After his return from Breda, John Pell spent nearly two years in England. However, the evidence for this part of his life is extremely fragmentary, offering very little in the way of letters or datable personal papers. He was later invited by Cromwell to take the position of special envoy to the Protestant cantons of Switzerland. On March 30, 1654 Pell received his official instructions from Cromwell. His duties were to assure the Protestant cantons of England's good will; to ‘endeavour to shew the true Cause of the Warres which haue beene in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the necessity and Justice thereof on the Parlaments Part’; to hinder any diplomatic efforts made there on behalf of ‘Charles Stewart’; to explain the English position on the Anglo-Dutch war; to encourage the Swiss Protestants to send their sons to the English universities; and to send back to England ‘frequent Accounts’ of his dealings.
Luc Van Gool, Marc Pollefeys, Marc Proesmans, and Alexey Zalesny
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197262962
- eISBN:
- 9780191734533
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197262962.003.0009
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Archaeological Methodology and Techniques
This chapter discusses the goals of the Murale project, an Information Society Technologies (IST) project, which is funded by the European Commission in order to advance the use of computer ...
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This chapter discusses the goals of the Murale project, an Information Society Technologies (IST) project, which is funded by the European Commission in order to advance the use of computer technology in the field of archaeology. The Murale project aims to offer solutions on the basis of photo-realistic modelling tools. The creation of the Murale project allowed archaeologists to solve old tasks with new means. This new technology has been applied to the Sagalassos site in the hopes of creating a convincing impression of how this Turkish province developed over the centuries. In this chapter, the focus is on the work carried out by three of the partners of the Murale: ETH Zurich, Eyetronics, and the University of Leuven. The results of their work predominantly pertain to 3D shape acquisition and image-based texture synthesis.Less
This chapter discusses the goals of the Murale project, an Information Society Technologies (IST) project, which is funded by the European Commission in order to advance the use of computer technology in the field of archaeology. The Murale project aims to offer solutions on the basis of photo-realistic modelling tools. The creation of the Murale project allowed archaeologists to solve old tasks with new means. This new technology has been applied to the Sagalassos site in the hopes of creating a convincing impression of how this Turkish province developed over the centuries. In this chapter, the focus is on the work carried out by three of the partners of the Murale: ETH Zurich, Eyetronics, and the University of Leuven. The results of their work predominantly pertain to 3D shape acquisition and image-based texture synthesis.
James D. Tracy
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199209118
- eISBN:
- 9780191706134
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199209118.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History
Holland's Baltic trade flourished as never before, and skilled immigrants helped revive local industries. But prosperity raised a political issue: should Holland trade with provinces loyal to Spain? ...
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Holland's Baltic trade flourished as never before, and skilled immigrants helped revive local industries. But prosperity raised a political issue: should Holland trade with provinces loyal to Spain? The more Holland's leaders pushed for free trade, the more confederates in the Union of Utrecht saw them as selling out the cause to boost profits. Meanwhile, Holland upheld the public supremacy of the Reformed religion. Yet Reformed religion embraced two theologies. One, based in Geneva, required a church free of state control; the other, based in Zurich, sanctioned governance of the Church by magistrates. Most Holland clergy preferred the former view, while magistrates favored the latter. Thus several towns had major conflicts over appointment of preachers; at the provincial level, each side ignored the other's pronouncements on church governance.Less
Holland's Baltic trade flourished as never before, and skilled immigrants helped revive local industries. But prosperity raised a political issue: should Holland trade with provinces loyal to Spain? The more Holland's leaders pushed for free trade, the more confederates in the Union of Utrecht saw them as selling out the cause to boost profits. Meanwhile, Holland upheld the public supremacy of the Reformed religion. Yet Reformed religion embraced two theologies. One, based in Geneva, required a church free of state control; the other, based in Zurich, sanctioned governance of the Church by magistrates. Most Holland clergy preferred the former view, while magistrates favored the latter. Thus several towns had major conflicts over appointment of preachers; at the provincial level, each side ignored the other's pronouncements on church governance.
Frederick C. Beiser
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199573011
- eISBN:
- 9780191722202
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199573011.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Aesthetics, History of Philosophy
This chapter focuses on one of the most famous episodes in German cultural history in the early 18th century: Gottsched's bitter quarrel with the Swiss aestheticians J. J. Bodmer and J. J. ...
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This chapter focuses on one of the most famous episodes in German cultural history in the early 18th century: Gottsched's bitter quarrel with the Swiss aestheticians J. J. Bodmer and J. J. Breitinger. This dispute officially began in 1740, though there were preliminary skirmishes dating back to the 1720s. Its epicenters were Leipzig and Zurich, but it eventually spread to every corner of Germany. Gottsched and the Swiss had armies of supporters, and everyone became either a Gottschedianer or a Schweizer. For ten years the dispute raged, giving birth to treatises, satires, poems, plays, and even whole journals. The basic issue dividing Gottsched and the Swiss concerns the nature of aesthetic pleasure itself. True to the Wolffian tradition, Gottsched defends a neo-classical aesthetic, according to which the sole object of aesthetic pleasure is beauty, which consists in order, regularity, or unity-in-variety. The Swiss, however, champion a proto-Romantic aesthetic, according to which there are other sources of aesthetic pleasure besides beauty; namely, the sublime and the wonderful, or, to use their own terms, the great (das Grosse) and the new (das Neue).Less
This chapter focuses on one of the most famous episodes in German cultural history in the early 18th century: Gottsched's bitter quarrel with the Swiss aestheticians J. J. Bodmer and J. J. Breitinger. This dispute officially began in 1740, though there were preliminary skirmishes dating back to the 1720s. Its epicenters were Leipzig and Zurich, but it eventually spread to every corner of Germany. Gottsched and the Swiss had armies of supporters, and everyone became either a Gottschedianer or a Schweizer. For ten years the dispute raged, giving birth to treatises, satires, poems, plays, and even whole journals. The basic issue dividing Gottsched and the Swiss concerns the nature of aesthetic pleasure itself. True to the Wolffian tradition, Gottsched defends a neo-classical aesthetic, according to which the sole object of aesthetic pleasure is beauty, which consists in order, regularity, or unity-in-variety. The Swiss, however, champion a proto-Romantic aesthetic, according to which there are other sources of aesthetic pleasure besides beauty; namely, the sublime and the wonderful, or, to use their own terms, the great (das Grosse) and the new (das Neue).
Joseph Shatzmiller
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691156996
- eISBN:
- 9781400846092
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691156996.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter offers a testimonial to the influence that success had on the development of the aesthetic taste of Jewish financiers. It describes the decorations in an apartment discovered in the ...
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This chapter offers a testimonial to the influence that success had on the development of the aesthetic taste of Jewish financiers. It describes the decorations in an apartment discovered in the mid-1990s in the city of Zurich. In this apartment, between the years 1320 and 1330, lived the family of the exceedingly rich Rabbi Moses ben Menahem, the spiritual leader of the city's small community who is well known today to rabbinic scholars. Today, almost all of the modern scholars' knowledge about the inner life of the Jews of medieval Germany depends on rabbinic writings and on religious objects that survived the centuries, while knowing close to nothing about other trends that were part of their culture.Less
This chapter offers a testimonial to the influence that success had on the development of the aesthetic taste of Jewish financiers. It describes the decorations in an apartment discovered in the mid-1990s in the city of Zurich. In this apartment, between the years 1320 and 1330, lived the family of the exceedingly rich Rabbi Moses ben Menahem, the spiritual leader of the city's small community who is well known today to rabbinic scholars. Today, almost all of the modern scholars' knowledge about the inner life of the Jews of medieval Germany depends on rabbinic writings and on religious objects that survived the centuries, while knowing close to nothing about other trends that were part of their culture.
Thomas Inglin
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781781381373
- eISBN:
- 9781781384886
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781381373.003.0009
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Business History
Zurich Insurance Group celebrated the 100-year anniversary of her US-branch in with a jubilee event in 2012. The company’s anniversary was approached as an integrated campaign: tie together the past, ...
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Zurich Insurance Group celebrated the 100-year anniversary of her US-branch in with a jubilee event in 2012. The company’s anniversary was approached as an integrated campaign: tie together the past, present and future with fresh, durable insights and storytelling. With other words: history marketing focused on the people behind the stories and relevance today. The first step was so-called StoryARCs: looking for legends and exceptional stories from the history of Zurich – a story-discovery and story-design methodology based on the most successful narrative algorithms in history. These stories were the basis of all jubilee activities in marketing, speeches, publications, exhibits, videos and web. Zurich not only intended to publish a jubilee book and organize a ceremonial but aimed to win both hearts and minds of employees and customers.Less
Zurich Insurance Group celebrated the 100-year anniversary of her US-branch in with a jubilee event in 2012. The company’s anniversary was approached as an integrated campaign: tie together the past, present and future with fresh, durable insights and storytelling. With other words: history marketing focused on the people behind the stories and relevance today. The first step was so-called StoryARCs: looking for legends and exceptional stories from the history of Zurich – a story-discovery and story-design methodology based on the most successful narrative algorithms in history. These stories were the basis of all jubilee activities in marketing, speeches, publications, exhibits, videos and web. Zurich not only intended to publish a jubilee book and organize a ceremonial but aimed to win both hearts and minds of employees and customers.
Donald Prater
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198158912
- eISBN:
- 9780191673405
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198158912.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry, European Literature
Rilke was persuaded to give lectures in Zurich and there followed a triumphal tour through the cities of German Switzerland: St. Gallen first, then Lucerne, Basle, Berne, and finally in Winterthur. ...
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Rilke was persuaded to give lectures in Zurich and there followed a triumphal tour through the cities of German Switzerland: St. Gallen first, then Lucerne, Basle, Berne, and finally in Winterthur. It was also in Switzerland where he completed his Elegies.Less
Rilke was persuaded to give lectures in Zurich and there followed a triumphal tour through the cities of German Switzerland: St. Gallen first, then Lucerne, Basle, Berne, and finally in Winterthur. It was also in Switzerland where he completed his Elegies.
W. P. Stephens
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198263630
- eISBN:
- 9780191682629
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198263630.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology, History of Christianity
This book provides an introduction to Zwingli's thought. It discusses the main areas of debate in Zwingli studies, and engages with a variety of interpretations of Zwingli. In the opening chapters ...
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This book provides an introduction to Zwingli's thought. It discusses the main areas of debate in Zwingli studies, and engages with a variety of interpretations of Zwingli. In the opening chapters the book places Zwingli in the context of Zurich and Switzerland in the 16th century, describes the various influences on Zwingli's development, and outlines his life as a reformer. There follow two chapters that introduce the main themes in Zwingli's thought, and these are related both to the life and work of the man himself as well as to the views of other reformers. A final chapter considers Zwingli as a reformer and theologian. Here and elsewhere in the book, the author points to Zwingli's relevance today. There is a short glossary of theological terms.Less
This book provides an introduction to Zwingli's thought. It discusses the main areas of debate in Zwingli studies, and engages with a variety of interpretations of Zwingli. In the opening chapters the book places Zwingli in the context of Zurich and Switzerland in the 16th century, describes the various influences on Zwingli's development, and outlines his life as a reformer. There follow two chapters that introduce the main themes in Zwingli's thought, and these are related both to the life and work of the man himself as well as to the views of other reformers. A final chapter considers Zwingli as a reformer and theologian. Here and elsewhere in the book, the author points to Zwingli's relevance today. There is a short glossary of theological terms.
Charles P. Enz
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780198564799
- eISBN:
- 9780191713835
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198564799.001.0001
- Subject:
- Physics, History of Physics
This book, the first biography on the life of the physicist Wolfgang Pauli, analyses his scientific work and describes the evolution of his thinking. Pauli spent 30 years as a professor at the ...
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This book, the first biography on the life of the physicist Wolfgang Pauli, analyses his scientific work and describes the evolution of his thinking. Pauli spent 30 years as a professor at the Federal Institute of Technology ETH in Zurich, which occupies a central place in this biography. It would be incomplete, however, without a rendering of Pauli’s sarcastic wit and, most importantly, of the world of his dreams. It is through the latter that quite a different aspect of Pauli’s life comes in, namely his association with the psychology of C. G. Jung and his school. This book sets Pauli’s life into historical context, based on original and unparalleled source material, including an extended account of his correspondence.Less
This book, the first biography on the life of the physicist Wolfgang Pauli, analyses his scientific work and describes the evolution of his thinking. Pauli spent 30 years as a professor at the Federal Institute of Technology ETH in Zurich, which occupies a central place in this biography. It would be incomplete, however, without a rendering of Pauli’s sarcastic wit and, most importantly, of the world of his dreams. It is through the latter that quite a different aspect of Pauli’s life comes in, namely his association with the psychology of C. G. Jung and his school. This book sets Pauli’s life into historical context, based on original and unparalleled source material, including an extended account of his correspondence.
Charles P. Enz
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780198564799
- eISBN:
- 9780191713835
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198564799.003.0010
- Subject:
- Physics, History of Physics
This chapter begins with details of Pauli’s return to Zurich. It also describes his letters to Jung, his responses to Julian Schwinger’s papers, and his lectures on new field theory.
This chapter begins with details of Pauli’s return to Zurich. It also describes his letters to Jung, his responses to Julian Schwinger’s papers, and his lectures on new field theory.
Andreas Wimmer
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199927371
- eISBN:
- 9780199980536
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199927371.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity, Social Theory
Does ethnicity determine the formation of groups in immigrant societies? Multiculturalism and radical constructivism give opposing answers to this question. This chapter provides an empirical ...
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Does ethnicity determine the formation of groups in immigrant societies? Multiculturalism and radical constructivism give opposing answers to this question. This chapter provides an empirical contribution to the debate by looking at patterns of group formation on the level of social categories and personal networks in the immigrant neighbourhoods of Basel, Berne, and Zurich. The chapter finds that ethno-national or racial categories are secondary principles of classification only and that the main boundaries are drawn between old-established residents of the neighbourhood (of different ethnic backgrounds) and newcomers, mostly recently arrived immigrant cohorts from the Balkans or the developing world. The social boundaries in the friendship networks of neighbourhood residents largely conform to this mode of classification. The chapter concludes by hinting at how this world view prepared the ground for the rise of a xenophobic, populist party in Switzerland.Less
Does ethnicity determine the formation of groups in immigrant societies? Multiculturalism and radical constructivism give opposing answers to this question. This chapter provides an empirical contribution to the debate by looking at patterns of group formation on the level of social categories and personal networks in the immigrant neighbourhoods of Basel, Berne, and Zurich. The chapter finds that ethno-national or racial categories are secondary principles of classification only and that the main boundaries are drawn between old-established residents of the neighbourhood (of different ethnic backgrounds) and newcomers, mostly recently arrived immigrant cohorts from the Balkans or the developing world. The social boundaries in the friendship networks of neighbourhood residents largely conform to this mode of classification. The chapter concludes by hinting at how this world view prepared the ground for the rise of a xenophobic, populist party in Switzerland.
A. W. BRIAN SIMPSON
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199267897
- eISBN:
- 9780191714115
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199267897.003.0019
- Subject:
- Law, Human Rights and Immigration, EU Law
This chapter gives an account of the visit of the sub-commission to Cyprus, the oral hearings, hostility of the colonial authorities and their management of the visit, the part played by the UK ...
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This chapter gives an account of the visit of the sub-commission to Cyprus, the oral hearings, hostility of the colonial authorities and their management of the visit, the part played by the UK member, Humphrey Waldock, and the Greek member Eustathiades, the report of the sub-commission, with detailed discussion of its views on Article 15 of the Convention, on the doctrine of the margin of appreciation, on irregular derogations, on curfews and collective punishments, and on arrest and detention. It also gives an account of Greece's second application, Application 299/57, which alleged forty-nine cases of torture, which are discussed in detail, and of the appointment of a second sub-commission, and explains how the UK lawyers succeeded in delaying the investigation, which was never completed, events being overtaken by the Zurich political settlement of the dispute, with the report in the first case kept secret and the investigation of the second halted.Less
This chapter gives an account of the visit of the sub-commission to Cyprus, the oral hearings, hostility of the colonial authorities and their management of the visit, the part played by the UK member, Humphrey Waldock, and the Greek member Eustathiades, the report of the sub-commission, with detailed discussion of its views on Article 15 of the Convention, on the doctrine of the margin of appreciation, on irregular derogations, on curfews and collective punishments, and on arrest and detention. It also gives an account of Greece's second application, Application 299/57, which alleged forty-nine cases of torture, which are discussed in detail, and of the appointment of a second sub-commission, and explains how the UK lawyers succeeded in delaying the investigation, which was never completed, events being overtaken by the Zurich political settlement of the dispute, with the report in the first case kept secret and the investigation of the second halted.
Nell Andrew
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- April 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190057275
- eISBN:
- 9780190057312
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190057275.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Dance
This book reenacts the simultaneous eruption of three spectacular revolutions—the development of pictorial abstraction, the first modern dance, and the birth of cinema—which together changed the ...
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This book reenacts the simultaneous eruption of three spectacular revolutions—the development of pictorial abstraction, the first modern dance, and the birth of cinema—which together changed the artistic landscape of early twentieth-century Europe and the future of modern art. Rather than seeking dancing pictures or pictures of dancing, however, this study follows the chronology of the historical avant-garde to show how dance and pictures were engaged in a kindred exploration of the limits of art and perception that required the process of abstraction. Recovering the performances, methods, and circles of aesthetic influence of avant-garde dance pioneers and experimental filmmakers from the turn of the century to the interwar period, this book challenges modernism’s medium-specific frameworks by demonstrating the significant role played by the arts of motion in the historical avant-garde’s development of abstraction: from the turn-of-the-century dancer Loïe Fuller, who awakened in symbolist artists the possibility of prolonged vision; to cubo-futurist and neosymbolist artists who reached pure abstraction in tandem with the radical dance theory of Valentine de Saint-Point; to Sophie Taeuber’s hybrid Dadaism between art and dance; to Akarova, a prolific choreographer whose dancing Belgian constructivist pioneers called “music architecture”; and finally to the dancing images of early cinematic abstraction from the Lumière brothers to Germaine Dulac. Each chapter reveals the emergence of abstractionas an apparatus of creation, perception, and reception deployed across artistic media toward shared modernist goals. The author argues that abstraction can be worked like a muscle, a medium through which habits of reception and perception are broken and art’s viewers are engaged by the kinesthetic sensation to move and be moved.Less
This book reenacts the simultaneous eruption of three spectacular revolutions—the development of pictorial abstraction, the first modern dance, and the birth of cinema—which together changed the artistic landscape of early twentieth-century Europe and the future of modern art. Rather than seeking dancing pictures or pictures of dancing, however, this study follows the chronology of the historical avant-garde to show how dance and pictures were engaged in a kindred exploration of the limits of art and perception that required the process of abstraction. Recovering the performances, methods, and circles of aesthetic influence of avant-garde dance pioneers and experimental filmmakers from the turn of the century to the interwar period, this book challenges modernism’s medium-specific frameworks by demonstrating the significant role played by the arts of motion in the historical avant-garde’s development of abstraction: from the turn-of-the-century dancer Loïe Fuller, who awakened in symbolist artists the possibility of prolonged vision; to cubo-futurist and neosymbolist artists who reached pure abstraction in tandem with the radical dance theory of Valentine de Saint-Point; to Sophie Taeuber’s hybrid Dadaism between art and dance; to Akarova, a prolific choreographer whose dancing Belgian constructivist pioneers called “music architecture”; and finally to the dancing images of early cinematic abstraction from the Lumière brothers to Germaine Dulac. Each chapter reveals the emergence of abstractionas an apparatus of creation, perception, and reception deployed across artistic media toward shared modernist goals. The author argues that abstraction can be worked like a muscle, a medium through which habits of reception and perception are broken and art’s viewers are engaged by the kinesthetic sensation to move and be moved.
Karen R. Lawrence
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813034775
- eISBN:
- 9780813038612
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813034775.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter addresses the issue of hospitality to women in a more institutional context: the International James Joyce Foundation and through the author's own experience beginning at the Zurich ...
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This chapter addresses the issue of hospitality to women in a more institutional context: the International James Joyce Foundation and through the author's own experience beginning at the Zurich symposium in 1979. The changes in the Joyce organization reflect larger welcomed changes in the academy. And, as in the academy, still more needs to be done. The ratio of male to female critics of Joyce was overwhelming during that time. In a 1969 Modern Fiction Studies special issue on Joyce, all the contributors were men, and the Selected Checklist of Joyce criticism published that year included few women commentators among the hundreds listed. The collection Women in Joyce, edited by Suzette Henke and Elaine Unkeless in 1982, reflected some of the tensions in the first wave of feminist attention to Joyce, which tended to focus on Joyce's fictional representations of personal relationships with women.Less
This chapter addresses the issue of hospitality to women in a more institutional context: the International James Joyce Foundation and through the author's own experience beginning at the Zurich symposium in 1979. The changes in the Joyce organization reflect larger welcomed changes in the academy. And, as in the academy, still more needs to be done. The ratio of male to female critics of Joyce was overwhelming during that time. In a 1969 Modern Fiction Studies special issue on Joyce, all the contributors were men, and the Selected Checklist of Joyce criticism published that year included few women commentators among the hundreds listed. The collection Women in Joyce, edited by Suzette Henke and Elaine Unkeless in 1982, reflected some of the tensions in the first wave of feminist attention to Joyce, which tended to focus on Joyce's fictional representations of personal relationships with women.
Deborah Lewer
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781526121622
- eISBN:
- 9781526158291
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7765/9781526121639.00012
- Subject:
- Art, Art History
This chapter argues for an extension of our historical view of Dada to include the vital influence of Munich and Der Blaue Reiter. It focuses on Hugo Ball, founder of Dada, and on his changing ...
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This chapter argues for an extension of our historical view of Dada to include the vital influence of Munich and Der Blaue Reiter. It focuses on Hugo Ball, founder of Dada, and on his changing engagement with the theatre, with modern art and with the figure of the artist, first in Munich and then in Zurich. The chapter explores how, for Ball, Kandinsky was both the consummate artist and, eventually, a tangential cause of Ball’s disillusionment with and departure from the artistic avant-garde. The chapter brings to light some key primary sources relating to Ball’s ideas for what would become the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. As a whole, it makes a case for a more nuanced account of the relationship between Expressionism and Dada, and between the avant-gardes of Munich and Zurich, before and during World War I.Less
This chapter argues for an extension of our historical view of Dada to include the vital influence of Munich and Der Blaue Reiter. It focuses on Hugo Ball, founder of Dada, and on his changing engagement with the theatre, with modern art and with the figure of the artist, first in Munich and then in Zurich. The chapter explores how, for Ball, Kandinsky was both the consummate artist and, eventually, a tangential cause of Ball’s disillusionment with and departure from the artistic avant-garde. The chapter brings to light some key primary sources relating to Ball’s ideas for what would become the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. As a whole, it makes a case for a more nuanced account of the relationship between Expressionism and Dada, and between the avant-gardes of Munich and Zurich, before and during World War I.
Sundar Henny
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780197266250
- eISBN:
- 9780191869181
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197266250.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History
This contribution is an exercise in amalgamation: it seeks to blur the distinctions between archival and scribal culture, between form and content, and between the history of the book and history of ...
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This contribution is an exercise in amalgamation: it seeks to blur the distinctions between archival and scribal culture, between form and content, and between the history of the book and history of material culture. Three leading figures of 17th-century Zurich—a clergyman and two magistrates—are spotlighted as they take respective measures to secure their memory. Although these measures and the corresponding archival situations differ quite significantly, it becomes obvious that in all of these cases materiality played a crucial role in the process of conservation. Written remains were referred to as relics, treasures, and monuments. To reduce those non-governmental collections to a cult of autographs, however, would miss the point. Copying also flourished and was thought of as a necessity as well as an act of asceticism. The argument is that ‘information’, narrowly understood, does not convey what early modern archives were all about.Less
This contribution is an exercise in amalgamation: it seeks to blur the distinctions between archival and scribal culture, between form and content, and between the history of the book and history of material culture. Three leading figures of 17th-century Zurich—a clergyman and two magistrates—are spotlighted as they take respective measures to secure their memory. Although these measures and the corresponding archival situations differ quite significantly, it becomes obvious that in all of these cases materiality played a crucial role in the process of conservation. Written remains were referred to as relics, treasures, and monuments. To reduce those non-governmental collections to a cult of autographs, however, would miss the point. Copying also flourished and was thought of as a necessity as well as an act of asceticism. The argument is that ‘information’, narrowly understood, does not convey what early modern archives were all about.
Sean McMeekin
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300098471
- eISBN:
- 9780300130096
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300098471.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter discusses Munzenberg's attempts at leaving behind the struggles of Erfurt. His first attempt proved daunting until he and a friend met up with members of Offenbach's Youth Socialist ...
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This chapter discusses Munzenberg's attempts at leaving behind the struggles of Erfurt. His first attempt proved daunting until he and a friend met up with members of Offenbach's Youth Socialist group, who arranged a modest disbursement of unemployment relief from the local union for the two wanderers. A string of bad luck forced Munzenberg back to Erfurt, where he had to live with his older sister while he recovered from an illness he acquired while traveling. By early July 1910, he had saved up enough money and set off again in search of employment, this time in the south. Munzenberg's objective was France, although he wanted to try a different path so as not to repeat the earlier debacles. His route this time passed through the Black Forest, zigzagging through Bavaria, past Lindau on the Bodensee, and finally over Schaffhausen into Switzerland, where his first stop was Zurich.Less
This chapter discusses Munzenberg's attempts at leaving behind the struggles of Erfurt. His first attempt proved daunting until he and a friend met up with members of Offenbach's Youth Socialist group, who arranged a modest disbursement of unemployment relief from the local union for the two wanderers. A string of bad luck forced Munzenberg back to Erfurt, where he had to live with his older sister while he recovered from an illness he acquired while traveling. By early July 1910, he had saved up enough money and set off again in search of employment, this time in the south. Munzenberg's objective was France, although he wanted to try a different path so as not to repeat the earlier debacles. His route this time passed through the Black Forest, zigzagging through Bavaria, past Lindau on the Bodensee, and finally over Schaffhausen into Switzerland, where his first stop was Zurich.
Hanoch Gutfreund and Jürgen Renn
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780691175812
- eISBN:
- 9781400865765
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691175812.003.0002
- Subject:
- Physics, History of Physics
This section discusses the development of Albert Einstein's ideas and attitudes as he struggled for eight years to come up with a general theory of relativity that would meet the physical and ...
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This section discusses the development of Albert Einstein's ideas and attitudes as he struggled for eight years to come up with a general theory of relativity that would meet the physical and mathematical requirements laid down at the outset. It first considers Einstein's work on gravitation in Prague before analyzing three documents that played a significant role in his search for a theory of general relativity: the Zurich Notebook, the Einstein–Grossmann Entwurf paper, and the Einstein–Besso manuscript. It then looks at Einstein's completion of his general theory of relativity in Berlin in November 1915, along with his development of a new theory of gravitation within the framework of the special theory of relativity. It also examines the formulation of the basic idea that Einstein termed the “equivalence principle,” his Entwurf theory vs. David Hilbert's theory, and the 1916 manuscript of Einstein's work on the general theory of relativity.Less
This section discusses the development of Albert Einstein's ideas and attitudes as he struggled for eight years to come up with a general theory of relativity that would meet the physical and mathematical requirements laid down at the outset. It first considers Einstein's work on gravitation in Prague before analyzing three documents that played a significant role in his search for a theory of general relativity: the Zurich Notebook, the Einstein–Grossmann Entwurf paper, and the Einstein–Besso manuscript. It then looks at Einstein's completion of his general theory of relativity in Berlin in November 1915, along with his development of a new theory of gravitation within the framework of the special theory of relativity. It also examines the formulation of the basic idea that Einstein termed the “equivalence principle,” his Entwurf theory vs. David Hilbert's theory, and the 1916 manuscript of Einstein's work on the general theory of relativity.
Esther Chung-Kim
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- April 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780197537732
- eISBN:
- 9780197537763
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197537732.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity, Religion and Society
Although Ulrich Zwingli started the Swiss Reformation in Zürich, his successor Heinrich Bullinger was the main stabilizer for the reform movement during his forty-plus years as chief minister from ...
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Although Ulrich Zwingli started the Swiss Reformation in Zürich, his successor Heinrich Bullinger was the main stabilizer for the reform movement during his forty-plus years as chief minister from 1532 to 1575. Bullinger’s advocacy through his sermons and speeches (Fürträge) before the city council regularly reminded the politicians of their duty to care for the poor. Although the Zurich council circumscribed the role of ministers to spiritual matters, Bullinger believed that ensuring a proper poor relief system was an important part of the pastors’ ministry to the people. Because church funds were in secular control, Bullinger’s involvement in poor relief emerged from his development as a church leader in which he justified his social-political critiques against the lack of effective poor relief based on Scripture, church history, Christian ethics, and socioeconomic needs. His persistence urged the Zürich council to reconsider and revise its poor relief policies to include poverty prevention.Less
Although Ulrich Zwingli started the Swiss Reformation in Zürich, his successor Heinrich Bullinger was the main stabilizer for the reform movement during his forty-plus years as chief minister from 1532 to 1575. Bullinger’s advocacy through his sermons and speeches (Fürträge) before the city council regularly reminded the politicians of their duty to care for the poor. Although the Zurich council circumscribed the role of ministers to spiritual matters, Bullinger believed that ensuring a proper poor relief system was an important part of the pastors’ ministry to the people. Because church funds were in secular control, Bullinger’s involvement in poor relief emerged from his development as a church leader in which he justified his social-political critiques against the lack of effective poor relief based on Scripture, church history, Christian ethics, and socioeconomic needs. His persistence urged the Zürich council to reconsider and revise its poor relief policies to include poverty prevention.
