Seemingly ‘impossible’ art forms: Strijdom van der Merwe’s land art in the context of the South African art market

Pseudo-Kufi: Reflection of the Islamic Art in the Byzantine Art

Calligraphy was very important from the beginning in Islamic civilization because of the Rasm of the Holy Quran. The presence and application of the Kufic script, as one of the most common forms of calligraphy in the early Islamic age, with its own visual and conceptual features in the Greek churches and monasteries of the tenth and eleventh centuries (fourth and fifth centuries (AH)) raises ma...

The Expression of the Divine Order Through the Art of Sculpture in the Greek Art Religion (According to Hegel’s Lectures on Fine Art and his Phenomenology of Spirit)

The art of Greek sculpture is the most complete and appropriate visual form of expression of the divine in the Greek art religion and similar types in the earlier and later religions. In Greek sculpture, form and content are in balance and interact with each other. The Spirit and the material have no dominion over one another. The spirit (divine) recognizes as its proper home the human body, an...

Critique of Research Books (Art)/ The Art Economics of Art: A Look at Contemporary Art Economics; Markets, Strategies, and the Star-making Systems, Marzieh Eftekhari

Art.-Van Opstal (B)

417 Human auditory localization is remarkably accurate, even in complete darkness under open-loop conditions1–4 (Fig. 2; see also Methods). This performance may rival that of the barn owl, a well studied nocturnal hunter that relies heavily on its auditory system to capture prey. Yet, quite different localization mechanisms are used by each species. In barn owls, sound azimuth (horizontal direc...

The Market for Contemporary Art