‘Global Emblems’ and ‘Transmission and Intermediality: the impact of the emblematic culture on the early Americas’

This white paper briefly outlines two co-dependent research initiatives: ‘Global Emblems’ and ‘Transmission and Intermediality: the impact of the emblematic culture in Ibero-America’. Both projects are in their initial stage of development, at Brown University. ▪ ‘Global Emblems’ is set to map, d...

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Main Author: Pedro Germano Leal
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad de Extremadura 2020-12-01
Series:Norba. Arte
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Online Access:https://publicaciones.unex.es/index.php/NRA/article/view/543
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description This white paper briefly outlines two co-dependent research initiatives: ‘Global Emblems’ and ‘Transmission and Intermediality: the impact of the emblematic culture in Ibero-America’. Both projects are in their initial stage of development, at Brown University. ▪ ‘Global Emblems’ is set to map, document and study the presence of emblems in material culture, around the world, and cross-link these occurrences with pre-existing digital collections of emblem books. The database will be fed by an international network of specialists, which is already active, with members in over ten countries and the support of the Society for Emblem Studies. The platform will allow searches by concepts (using Iconclass classification system) and a number of locations will allow users to ‘visit’ them through Virtual Reality (360 annotated photos). The database will be systematically studied through ‘thematic clusters’. Although at first glance the focus on emblems may seem narrow, emblems have a broad geographical and historical spread, which can be traced, and that provides the necessary data for the kind of analytical and interpretative study required in the second research initiative, which illustrates the importance of emblems within the wider frame of Latin American cultural history. ▪ ‘Transmission and Intermediality: the impact of the emblematic culture on the Early Americas’ will analyse the data from ‘Global Emblems’ in order to understand the role of emblems in the colonial process in the Americas. More specifically, this project will look at the ‘pictorial dispute’ in the New World, by examining the ‘pictorial turn’ from the ‘catecismos jeroglíficos’ to the displayed emblems in the 17th-century (many of them resulting from the remediation of European prints), and the ideological, political and sociological implications around the presence of these emblems in buildings and early-modern festivals.
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spelling doaj.art-f518ed52aacb4f8eb266662ccee66b9d2022-12-21T20:07:07ZspaUniversidad de ExtremaduraNorba. Arte0213-22142660-714X2020-12-014010.17398/2660-714X.40.113‘Global Emblems’ and ‘Transmission and Intermediality: the impact of the emblematic culture on the early Americas’Pedro Germano Leal0Brown UniversityThis white paper briefly outlines two co-dependent research initiatives: ‘Global Emblems’ and ‘Transmission and Intermediality: the impact of the emblematic culture in Ibero-America’. Both projects are in their initial stage of development, at Brown University. ▪ ‘Global Emblems’ is set to map, document and study the presence of emblems in material culture, around the world, and cross-link these occurrences with pre-existing digital collections of emblem books. The database will be fed by an international network of specialists, which is already active, with members in over ten countries and the support of the Society for Emblem Studies. The platform will allow searches by concepts (using Iconclass classification system) and a number of locations will allow users to ‘visit’ them through Virtual Reality (360 annotated photos). The database will be systematically studied through ‘thematic clusters’. Although at first glance the focus on emblems may seem narrow, emblems have a broad geographical and historical spread, which can be traced, and that provides the necessary data for the kind of analytical and interpretative study required in the second research initiative, which illustrates the importance of emblems within the wider frame of Latin American cultural history. ▪ ‘Transmission and Intermediality: the impact of the emblematic culture on the Early Americas’ will analyse the data from ‘Global Emblems’ in order to understand the role of emblems in the colonial process in the Americas. More specifically, this project will look at the ‘pictorial dispute’ in the New World, by examining the ‘pictorial turn’ from the ‘catecismos jeroglíficos’ to the displayed emblems in the 17th-century (many of them resulting from the remediation of European prints), and the ideological, political and sociological implications around the presence of these emblems in buildings and early-modern festivals.https://publicaciones.unex.es/index.php/NRA/article/view/543EmblemDisplayed EmblemIbero-AmericajeroglificoInterme-dialityCultural History
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‘Global Emblems’ and ‘Transmission and Intermediality: the impact of the emblematic culture on the early Americas’
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Cultural History
title ‘Global Emblems’ and ‘Transmission and Intermediality: the impact of the emblematic culture on the early Americas’
title_full ‘Global Emblems’ and ‘Transmission and Intermediality: the impact of the emblematic culture on the early Americas’
title_fullStr ‘Global Emblems’ and ‘Transmission and Intermediality: the impact of the emblematic culture on the early Americas’
title_full_unstemmed ‘Global Emblems’ and ‘Transmission and Intermediality: the impact of the emblematic culture on the early Americas’
title_short ‘Global Emblems’ and ‘Transmission and Intermediality: the impact of the emblematic culture on the early Americas’
title_sort global emblems and transmission and intermediality the impact of the emblematic culture on the early americas
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Displayed Emblem
Ibero-America
jeroglifico
Interme-diality
Cultural History
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