Sarah F. Maclaren

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Full Name	Sarah F. Maclaren
Occupation	Anthropologist
Date Of Birth	Jun 4, 1964(1964-06-04)
Age	60
Birthplace	London
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Gemini

Sarah F. Maclaren Biography

Sarah F. Maclaren is one of the most popular and richest Anthropologist who was born on June 4, 1964 in London, England, United Kingdom. Sarah F. Maclaren (born on June 4, 1964 in London, UK) is an Anglo-Italian cultural historian, sociologist and an anthropologist. Maclaren is also an authority in Cultural Studies, History of ideas, Aesthetics, Rhetoric and is an academic and cultural organizer.

John Felice Rome Center Loyola University of Chicago International conference in Rome The changing face of the Mediterranean Women who are migrant and their creative abilities and constraints Program (Panels as well as Participants)

Sarah Maclaren also dealt with aesthetics features of contemporary Japanese architecture during the research she carried out in Kyoto. In particular she focused on Arata Isozaki, renowned for being one of the world’s leading architects and architectural thinker. In the final part of the volume La magnificenza e il suo doppio. Il pensiero estetico di Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Magnificence and its Double. The Aesthetic Thought of Giovanni Battista Piranesi 2005), Maclaren shows how Piranesi was often a source of inspiration for Isozaki’s designs drawing on the most controversial and avantgarde features of the Italian artist (Maclaren 2005: 145-151). In the work Arata Isozaki e la fine dell’utopia (Arata Isozaki and the End of Utopia 2007), Maclaren addresses the revolutionary, iconoclastic, provocative and anti-modernist traits which have characterized Isozaki’s buildings and theories. This approach earned him a highly original profile on the global scene, allowing him to be one of the few architects who brought together both the Far Eastern and Western traditions of aesthetic and architectural designing. Furthermore, Maclaren (2005) argues that contemporary Japanese architecture has drawn on some features of magnificence theorized by Piranesi. The infrastructural facilities, the artificial islands, the global cities demonstrate how Japan is committed towards building public works beneficial on the entire population. On the other hand, the chika, – the Japanese underground cities – remind us of the uncanny and controversial version of magnificence connected to the Piranesian scenes of the Prisons and the Roman cloacae (Maclaren 2005: 151).

Sarah Maclaren’s work focused on magnificence (History of ideas). In the volume Magnificenza e mondo classico (Magnificence and the Classical World 2003), the author sketches the history of the notion deeply rooted in Western culture since classical antiquity. Known in ancient Greek as “megaloprépeia” and in Latin as “magnificentia”, the noun conveys the meaning of doing something great which is fitting or seemly to the circumstance. Although it was often confused with similar concepts such as magnanimity and sublime, magnificence, Maclaren argues, has always had to with the greatness of actions, courage, excellence, honour, generosity, and splendour of lifestyles of noble purposes. The author outlines how, from Plato, Herodotus, Xenophon, Aristotle through Cicero, Demetrius and Vitruvius, magnificence was always an interdisciplinary cultural idea connected to Philosophy, Economics, Sociology, Anthropology, Art Criticism, Rhetoric, Architecture and Art. Such an attitude towards greatness, however, may not necessarily lead towards noble actions. Alcibiades is one of the most notorious examples of how human excellence can turn towards evil deeds, if it is unable to resist political and social ambition, corruption, and greed (Maclaren 2003: 11-24). Given the double role of magnificence – positive and negative – the Italian philosopher Mario Perniola in his volume Strategie del bello. Quarant’anni di estetica italiana (1968–2008) (Strategies of Beauty. Forty years of Italian Aesthetics (1968–2008) (2009) placed magnificence in the category of the tragic which belongs to one of the six trends of contemporary Italian Aesthetics. Maclaren also maintains that magnificence should not be confused with luxury which enjoyed an entirely different intellectual history in western civilization. In the book La magnificenza e il suo doppio. Il pensiero estetico di Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Magnificence and its Double. The Aesthetic thought of Giovanni Battista Piranesi 2005), the author offers a philosophic and aesthetic interpretation of the renowned Italian artist. The first part of the volume addresses the history of the idea of magnificence from the Middle Ages – of which Thomas Aquinas left one of the most insightful theories – through the numerous interpretations it underwent during Italian Humanism and the Renaissance. Then Maclaren shows how Giovanni Battista Piranesi took up this concept at a time when others ideas, such as luxury and the sublime – closer to the cultural context of the Enlightenment and the bourgeoisie – were gaining more attention (Maclaren 2005: 30-45). Piranesi’s interpretation had a prominent role within the Greco-Roman debate in which he defended the geniality and originality of Roman architecture, as opposed to the Greek one. In his erudite treatise Della Magnificenza ed Architettura de’ Romani (Concerning Roman Magnificence and Architecture 1761), Piranesi draws on the classical theories of the notion and gives it renewed vigor turning it into a democratic virtue shared by entire ancient Roman population. Maclaren also argues that Piranesi offered a controversial theorization of magnificence which is underground, invisible, uncanny and overwhelming. It is the magnificence of the cloacae – the Roman sewage system – and the Carceri (The Prisons) (Maclaren 2005: 38-45). Thus the author maintains that there is an affinity between the architectural designs of Baroque palaces and the Prisons. The concept acquires a double meaning: a politically correct one – which draws on the classical tradition –, and a politically incorrect one, connected to the uncanny and controversial aspects of the cloacae. Magnificence therefore becomes the key to understanding Piranesi’s entire work be it artistic of theoretical (Mario Perniola 2009: 95). From this perspective Piranesi addresses the two inclinations of magnificence (good and evil) already identified by Plato. It is interesting however, to see that Piranesi’s alternative interpretation had an extensive influence on the European and American imagination. There is an endless list of poets, artists and others that go from the early Romantics such as William Beckford, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey, through a succession of French and American authors from Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire, Marguerite Yourcenar, Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville. The disturbing influences of the Prisons also caught the imagination of Aldous Huxley, Fritz Lang, Yo-Yo Ma and, last but not least, the “outsider artist” Achilles Rizzoli.

Conference The Magnificence of Rome and Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian Cultural Institute in Sydney https://web.archive.org/web/20110727184243/http://www.iicbelgrado.esteri.it/IIC_Sydney/webform/SchedaEvento.aspx?id=163&citta=Sydney

Sarah F. Maclaren Net Worth

Sarah F. Maclaren is one of the richest Anthropologist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sarah F. Maclaren 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Sarah Maclaren was born in London, United Kingdom, and later moved from the United Kingdom to Rome, Italy, where she now lives and works. She was a student at in the Liceo ginnasio Statale Augusto (Classical High School) in Rome, where she studied Humanities as well as Latin and the ancient Greek. After that, she graduated of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1988. Then she went to Rome’s University of Rome “Tor Vergata” where she received their Ph.D. in Philosophy. From 1999 on, Sarah Maclaren has been working at the Loyola University of Chicago Rome Center in Chicago, where she is a professor of Sociology and focuses on the topics “Italy Today” and “Italian Fashion and Design”. She is also the associate editors of Agalma. Rivista of Cultural Studies and di esteticais an academic journal focused on Cultural Studies and Aesthetics, established in 2000 by Italian philosopher Mario Perniola in 2000. She has published numerous articles and books about the history of ideas and studies in culture. In 2004, she visited Kyoto, Japan, to do studies into the aesthetic philosophy of architect Arata Isozaki. Sarah Maclaren lectured in many countries, including in the USA, Canada, Australia, Japan, Brazil, Italy and Europe. She is a member of IAPL (The International Association for Philosophies and Literary Studies) established with the direction of Hugh J. Silverman.

Sarah Maclaren also addressed studio craft. In her book Che is it that sono gli Studio Crafts? (What are Studio Crafts? 2007) The author’s focus is on the most important aspects of this art form and explains what distinguishes it from design and art and why craftspeople in the studio insist on their technical skill as well as their education, and how their works are viewed as well as appreciated, collected and consumed. Maclaren also examines the Italian context where this particular type of aesthetic and artistic culture is not thought of. The article Studio Craft. Una produzione tra arte e artigianato (Studio Craft. A collaboration between craft and art 2007) The author provides a historical overview and provides a thorough review of the making of onta, the Japanese Onta ceramic. In around 1930, this kind of pottery was made by the community of Sarayama which is situated within Southern Japan – for its individual requirements. Maclaren demonstrates how this kind of traditional pottery could have gone extinct completelyif a thorough method of evaluating it had not been implemented, allowing it to attain not only fame but also to be exhibited and collected in museums. Sarah Maclaren also analyzes the crucial role played by Yanagi Soetsu, who, drawing inspiration from his inspiration from the British art and craft movement dedicated himself to creating an area of culture that could protect traditional crafts that were on the brink of disappearing due to rapid industrialization and modernization in Japan. Yanagi was the founder of his own Japanese Mingei Movement and disseminated his ideas through the development of books, journals exhibitions, museums, and prizes for best craftsmen and craftspeople. On one of his trips around Japan that Yanagi encountered Onta pottery and was enthralled since it was in line with his ideals for aesthetics.

John Felice Rome Center Loyola University of Chicago International conference in Rome The Changing Face of the Mediterranean: Migrant Women’s Creativity and Constraints http://www.luc.edu/romecenter/internationalconference.shtml

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