Caroline Van Eck
Biographic Data
| ID | 72184 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caroline Van Eck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caroline |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Eck |
| SIGNATURE | VAN ECK C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8668-6020 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Globalizing Europe: A History
Globalizing Europe explores modern Europe's myriad entanglements with the wider world, considering the continent not only as an engine but also as a product of global transformations. It looks at the ways in which the global movements of peoples and ideas, goods and raw materials, flora and fauna have impacted life on the continent over the centuries. Bringing together a group of leading historians, the book shows how the history of Europe can be…
Histoire de l'art et anthropologie: Rendez-Vous Ratés Et Échanges Frontaliers
Relations entre l’histoire de l’art et l’anthropologie : une suite de rendez-vous ratés ?Même si elle s’ancre dans les premières études ethnographiques des rituels religieux et de la culture visuelle, à l’instar des Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde, représentées par des figures dessinées de la main de Bernard Picart avec des explications historiques et des dissertations curieuses de Bernard Picart et Jean Frédéric B…
Art History And Anthropology: Missed Rendez-vous and Border Traffic
The relations between art history and anthropology: a series of missed rendez-vous?Despite its roots in early modern ethnographies of religious ritual and visual culture, such as Bernard Picart and Jean Frédéric Bernard’s The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of all the Peoples of the World (1723), the history of the relations between art history and anthropology is still largely unwritten. The volume edited by Peter Probst and Joseph Imorde, Art …
From Nineveh to Pergamon and back: Animal hybrids in German historiography of the nineteenth century
Notes on the Prehistory of Camouflage and Mimicry as Cultural Techniques
The relations between human and animal camouflage have rarely been investigated. Current scholarship, focusing on the evolutionary and military aspects of camouflage, has overshadowed earlier thinking about camouflage and mimicry as shared animal and human features. Reconstructing some of the main elements of those early views, this article argues that, in humans, camouflage should be considered as a cultural technique. Three stages in the “prehi…
A Cultural History of Objects
A global rethinking of the attribution of agency to images
Previous articleNext article FreeBook SymposiumA global rethinking of the attribution of agency to images Fausto, Carlos, 2020. Art effects: Image, agency, and ritual in Amazonia. Translated by David Rodgers. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.Caroline van EckCaroline van EckUniversity of Cambridge Search for more articles by this author Full TextPDF Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLin…
Preface: Beyond Egyptomania »nachleben«, Mnemohistory and the Agency of Things Egyptian
Conceptions de l’ornement en quête de discours scientifique
Les trois livres étudiés ici offrent un nouvel éclairage sur l’histoire complexe de l’ornement en Occident. L’étude de Clare Guest sur la compréhension de l’ornement à la Renaissance est une tentative ambitieuse et très savante de retracer la préhistoire des concepts avant l’émergence de l’esthétique kantienne. Guest remonte aux débuts de la pensée occidentale sur l’ornement, dans l’Ancien Testament, dans les pensées grecques platonicienne, arist…
Anthropomorphism as Hermeneutic Mode
Objects, Romans, materialities
The three books reviewed here document the emergence of the new paradigm in Roman and Mediterranean archaeology, often associated with the material turn that occurred in the 1980s and 1990s in all disciplines related to human artefacts. It is a paradigm that puts things, not makers or users, at the centre of enquiry and that studies what things do, not their meaning. Its key notions are material and materiality, agency, practice, connectivity, th…
La scène primitive de l’architecture. Gottfried Semper et Alfred Gell, les origines, le style et les effets de l’art
Inspiré par la vue d’artefacts de Nouvelle-Zélande à l’Exposition universelle de Londres de 1851, Gottfried Semper affirma que cannibalisme et tatouage faisaient partie des premiers rites et objets humains, aux origines de la société. Cet article étudie la manière dont Semper développe une anthropologie de la création d’artefacts dans laquelle les effets produits par ces derniers et leur style jouent un rôle prépondérant. Dans la deuxième partie,…
Cannibalisme, tatouage et revêtement: De l'Histoire De l'Architecture À l'Anthropologie De l'Art
Cet article, qui s’ouvre sur un des passages les plus énigmatiques de Der Stil dans lequel Semper soutient que l’essence de l’architecture n’est pas le bâtiment mais l’habillement, explore quelques aspects anthropologiques de la théorie du style de Semper. La recherche anthropologique sur les origines polychromes de la sculpture dans les cultes fétichistes des sociétés primitives par Quatremère de Quincy fut pour lui une inspiration importante. S…
The biography of cultures: Style, Objects and Agency
Il est évident que les objets possèdent de l'agentivité, mais comment l'acquièrent-ils, et quel rôle jouent leur matériau et leur style ? Est-ce qu'une partie de l'agentivité des objets est liée à leur passage d'un contexte culturel à un autre ? Et si c'est le cas, quel rôle ce changement de contexte culturel joue-t-il dans la capacité de l'objet à accumuler de l'agentivité ? Enfin, pour envisager cette question du côté de l'objet : quel rôle jou…
Works of Art That Refuse to Behave: Agency, Excess, and Material Presence in Canova and Manet
New Literary History publishes essays on topics of theoretical significance within and beyond literary studies. The journal especially welcomes two types of contribution: 1) articles that engage with literary and cultural theory, including concepts of period, genre, or style, questions of hermeneutics and the reading process, problems of representation, and the relations between literary studies and other disciplines; 2) articles addressing gener…
Translations of the Sublime: The Early Modern Reception and Dissemination of Longinus' Peri Hupsous in Rhetoric, the Visual Arts, Architecture and the Theatre
Contrary to widely held assumptions, the early modern revival of ps-Longinus' On the Sublime did not begin with the adaptation published by Boileau in 1674; it was not connected solely with the Greek editions that began to appear from 1554; nor was its impact limited to rhetoric and literature. Manuscript copies began to circulate in Quattrocento Italy, but very few have been studied. Neither have the ways the sublime was used, in rhetoric and li…
Translations of the sublime: The early modern reception and dissemination of Longinus' Peri hupsous in rhetoric, the visual arts, architecture and the theatre
The present volume is a first attempt to chart the early modern translations of Peri hupsous, both in the literal sense of the history of its dissemination by means of editions, versions and translations in Latin and vernacular languages, but also in the figurative sense of its uses and transformations in the visual arts from 1500 to 1800
The Warburg Institute and Architectural History
At first sight, classical architecture, with its continuous revivals and reworking of the forms of Greek and Roman building, would appear to offer a privileged field in which to apply Warburg's central notion of the survival of classical forms (Nachleben der Antike) and his view of art history's unfolding as a process of remembrance (or Mnemosyne). Yet Warburg himself did not write on architecture. The topic has also largely vanished from the pag…
Introduction: Warburg's Library and Its Legacy
In this introduction to a Common Knowledge special issue on the Warburg Institute, the authors argue that the Institute remains today - as it has been, in different forms, for almost a century - one of Europe's central institutions for the study of cultural history. At once a rich and uniquely organized library, a center for doctoral and postdoctoral research, and a teaching faculty, the Institute was first envisioned by Aby Warburg, a pioneering…
Theatricality in Early Modern Art and Architecture
Vingt Ans D’historiographie Néerlandaise
Caroline van Eck | Enjeux disciplinaires et politiques de la recherche Depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale, deux événements intellectuels majeurs ont marqué l’évolution de l’histoire de l’art en tant que discipline académique dans le monde occidental : d’une part, l’émigration vers la Grande-Bretagne et les États-Unis d’historiens de l’art allemands et autrichiens tels que Edward Wind, Nikolaus Pevsner, Ernst Gombrich, Rudolf Wittkower et Erwin Pan…
The Visual Arts and the Theatre in Early Modern Europe
From its earliest beginnings, the theatre has borrowed elements from architecture, painting and other visual arts to stage and perform plays, ranging from the primitive wooden scaffoldings used in Athens in the fifth century BCE to perform Bacchic plays to the elaborate perspectival backdrops with their suggestion of infinite space developed in the eighteenth century by the Galli-Bibbiena family. Conversely, the arts have depicted theatrical acti…
Living Statues: Alfred Gell's Art and Agency , Living Presence Response and the Sublime
Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture
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Recollecting the Arundel Circle: Discovering the Past, Recovering the Future
Ernest Gilman. Recollecting the Arundel Circle: Discovering the Past, Recovering the Future. Frankfurt and New York: Peter Lang, 2002. xi + 182 pp. index. append, illus. bibl. $51.95. ISBN: 0-8204-6147-4. - Volume 57 Issue 1
Living Statues: Alfred Gell's Art and Agency , Living Presence Response and the Sublime
The biography of cultures: Style, Objects and Agency
Il est évident que les objets possèdent de l'agentivité, mais comment l'acquièrent-ils, et quel rôle jouent leur matériau et leur style ? Est-ce qu'une partie de l'agentivité des objets est liée à leur passage d'un contexte culturel à un autre ? Et si c'est le cas, quel rôle ce changement de contexte culturel joue-t-il dans la capacité de l'objet à accumuler de l'agentivité ? Enfin, pour envisager cette question du côté de l'objet : quel rôle jou…
The Warburg Institute and Architectural History
At first sight, classical architecture, with its continuous revivals and reworking of the forms of Greek and Roman building, would appear to offer a privileged field in which to apply Warburg's central notion of the survival of classical forms (Nachleben der Antike) and his view of art history's unfolding as a process of remembrance (or Mnemosyne). Yet Warburg himself did not write on architecture. The topic has also largely vanished from the pag…
Giannozzo Manetti on Architecture: The Oratio de secularibus et pontificalibus pompis in consecratione basilicae Florentinae of 1436
Recollecting the Arundel Circle: Discovering the Past, Recovering the Future
Ernest Gilman. Recollecting the Arundel Circle: Discovering the Past, Recovering the Future. Frankfurt and New York: Peter Lang, 2002. xi + 182 pp. index. append, illus. bibl. $51.95. ISBN: 0-8204-6147-4. - Volume 57 Issue 1
Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Visual Arts and the Theatre in Early Modern Europe
From its earliest beginnings, the theatre has borrowed elements from architecture, painting and other visual arts to stage and perform plays, ranging from the primitive wooden scaffoldings used in Athens in the fifth century BCE to perform Bacchic plays to the elaborate perspectival backdrops with their suggestion of infinite space developed in the eighteenth century by the Galli-Bibbiena family. Conversely, the arts have depicted theatrical acti…
Living Statues: Alfred Gell's Art and Agency , Living Presence Response and the Sublime
Theatricality in Early Modern Art and Architecture
Vingt Ans D’historiographie Néerlandaise
Caroline van Eck | Enjeux disciplinaires et politiques de la recherche Depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale, deux événements intellectuels majeurs ont marqué l’évolution de l’histoire de l’art en tant que discipline académique dans le monde occidental : d’une part, l’émigration vers la Grande-Bretagne et les États-Unis d’historiens de l’art allemands et autrichiens tels que Edward Wind, Nikolaus Pevsner, Ernst Gombrich, Rudolf Wittkower et Erwin Pan…
Translations of the Sublime: The Early Modern Reception and Dissemination of Longinus' Peri Hupsous in Rhetoric, the Visual Arts, Architecture and the Theatre
Contrary to widely held assumptions, the early modern revival of ps-Longinus' On the Sublime did not begin with the adaptation published by Boileau in 1674; it was not connected solely with the Greek editions that began to appear from 1554; nor was its impact limited to rhetoric and literature. Manuscript copies began to circulate in Quattrocento Italy, but very few have been studied. Neither have the ways the sublime was used, in rhetoric and li…
Translations of the sublime: The early modern reception and dissemination of Longinus' Peri hupsous in rhetoric, the visual arts, architecture and the theatre
The present volume is a first attempt to chart the early modern translations of Peri hupsous, both in the literal sense of the history of its dissemination by means of editions, versions and translations in Latin and vernacular languages, but also in the figurative sense of its uses and transformations in the visual arts from 1500 to 1800
The Warburg Institute and Architectural History
At first sight, classical architecture, with its continuous revivals and reworking of the forms of Greek and Roman building, would appear to offer a privileged field in which to apply Warburg's central notion of the survival of classical forms (Nachleben der Antike) and his view of art history's unfolding as a process of remembrance (or Mnemosyne). Yet Warburg himself did not write on architecture. The topic has also largely vanished from the pag…
Introduction: Warburg's Library and Its Legacy
In this introduction to a Common Knowledge special issue on the Warburg Institute, the authors argue that the Institute remains today - as it has been, in different forms, for almost a century - one of Europe's central institutions for the study of cultural history. At once a rich and uniquely organized library, a center for doctoral and postdoctoral research, and a teaching faculty, the Institute was first envisioned by Aby Warburg, a pioneering…
The biography of cultures: Style, Objects and Agency
Il est évident que les objets possèdent de l'agentivité, mais comment l'acquièrent-ils, et quel rôle jouent leur matériau et leur style ? Est-ce qu'une partie de l'agentivité des objets est liée à leur passage d'un contexte culturel à un autre ? Et si c'est le cas, quel rôle ce changement de contexte culturel joue-t-il dans la capacité de l'objet à accumuler de l'agentivité ? Enfin, pour envisager cette question du côté de l'objet : quel rôle jou…
Works of Art That Refuse to Behave: Agency, Excess, and Material Presence in Canova and Manet
New Literary History publishes essays on topics of theoretical significance within and beyond literary studies. The journal especially welcomes two types of contribution: 1) articles that engage with literary and cultural theory, including concepts of period, genre, or style, questions of hermeneutics and the reading process, problems of representation, and the relations between literary studies and other disciplines; 2) articles addressing gener…
La scène primitive de l’architecture. Gottfried Semper et Alfred Gell, les origines, le style et les effets de l’art
Inspiré par la vue d’artefacts de Nouvelle-Zélande à l’Exposition universelle de Londres de 1851, Gottfried Semper affirma que cannibalisme et tatouage faisaient partie des premiers rites et objets humains, aux origines de la société. Cet article étudie la manière dont Semper développe une anthropologie de la création d’artefacts dans laquelle les effets produits par ces derniers et leur style jouent un rôle prépondérant. Dans la deuxième partie,…
Cannibalisme, tatouage et revêtement: De l'Histoire De l'Architecture À l'Anthropologie De l'Art
Cet article, qui s’ouvre sur un des passages les plus énigmatiques de Der Stil dans lequel Semper soutient que l’essence de l’architecture n’est pas le bâtiment mais l’habillement, explore quelques aspects anthropologiques de la théorie du style de Semper. La recherche anthropologique sur les origines polychromes de la sculpture dans les cultes fétichistes des sociétés primitives par Quatremère de Quincy fut pour lui une inspiration importante. S…
Objects, Romans, materialities
The three books reviewed here document the emergence of the new paradigm in Roman and Mediterranean archaeology, often associated with the material turn that occurred in the 1980s and 1990s in all disciplines related to human artefacts. It is a paradigm that puts things, not makers or users, at the centre of enquiry and that studies what things do, not their meaning. Its key notions are material and materiality, agency, practice, connectivity, th…
Anthropomorphism as Hermeneutic Mode
Preface: Beyond Egyptomania »nachleben«, Mnemohistory and the Agency of Things Egyptian
Conceptions de l’ornement en quête de discours scientifique
Les trois livres étudiés ici offrent un nouvel éclairage sur l’histoire complexe de l’ornement en Occident. L’étude de Clare Guest sur la compréhension de l’ornement à la Renaissance est une tentative ambitieuse et très savante de retracer la préhistoire des concepts avant l’émergence de l’esthétique kantienne. Guest remonte aux débuts de la pensée occidentale sur l’ornement, dans l’Ancien Testament, dans les pensées grecques platonicienne, arist…
A global rethinking of the attribution of agency to images
Previous articleNext article FreeBook SymposiumA global rethinking of the attribution of agency to images Fausto, Carlos, 2020. Art effects: Image, agency, and ritual in Amazonia. Translated by David Rodgers. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.Caroline van EckCaroline van EckUniversity of Cambridge Search for more articles by this author Full TextPDF Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLin…
A Cultural History of Objects
Notes on the Prehistory of Camouflage and Mimicry as Cultural Techniques
The relations between human and animal camouflage have rarely been investigated. Current scholarship, focusing on the evolutionary and military aspects of camouflage, has overshadowed earlier thinking about camouflage and mimicry as shared animal and human features. Reconstructing some of the main elements of those early views, this article argues that, in humans, camouflage should be considered as a cultural technique. Three stages in the “prehi…
Histoire de l'art et anthropologie: Rendez-Vous Ratés Et Échanges Frontaliers
Relations entre l’histoire de l’art et l’anthropologie : une suite de rendez-vous ratés ?Même si elle s’ancre dans les premières études ethnographiques des rituels religieux et de la culture visuelle, à l’instar des Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde, représentées par des figures dessinées de la main de Bernard Picart avec des explications historiques et des dissertations curieuses de Bernard Picart et Jean Frédéric B…
Art History And Anthropology: Missed Rendez-vous and Border Traffic
The relations between art history and anthropology: a series of missed rendez-vous?Despite its roots in early modern ethnographies of religious ritual and visual culture, such as Bernard Picart and Jean Frédéric Bernard’s The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of all the Peoples of the World (1723), the history of the relations between art history and anthropology is still largely unwritten. The volume edited by Peter Probst and Joseph Imorde, Art …
From Nineveh to Pergamon and back: Animal hybrids in German historiography of the nineteenth century
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