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Markus Wiener Publishers The Lure of Antiquity and the Cult of the Machine: The Kunstkammer and the Evolution of Nature, Art and Technology

Name: The Lure of Antiquity and the Cult of the Machine: The Kunstkammer and the Evolution of Nature, Art and Technology
Brand: Markus Wiener Publishers
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The ""Kunstkammer"" was a display of art and oddities amassed by wealthy Europeans during the 16th to 18th centuries. This text explores the relations between art, science and scholarship in early modern Europe, advancing the view that the baroque Kunstkammer is the nucleus of modern cyberspace. Review "It is a book without a superfluous sentence. One wishes to ask the author for a sequel." --Die Zeit"Bredekamp's achievement goes well beyond bringing peculiar collections of obstruse constructions and ambitious alchemy to the attention of art historians. By explaining the sources of pictures of the baroque era, he also succeeds in making plausible a world of ideas in which the museum was not yet a locus of highbrow diversion, but a means of gaining insight into the essence of the world. A superb essay." --Frankfurter Allgemeine ZeitungThe Kunstkammer was a programmatic display of art and oddities amassed by wealthy Europeans during the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. These nascent museums reflected the ambitions of such thinkers as Descartes, Locke, and Kepler to unite the forces of nature with art and technology. The bizarre inventory of the Kunstkammer--ranging from minerals to exotic plants and animals, statues, and machines--was intended to illustrate the mechanistic order of the universe. Such collections confirmed a belief in the continual evolution of man's god-like power of creativity. Bredekamp advances a radical view that the baroque Kunstkammer is also the nucleus of modern cyberspace. "Horst Bredekamp's elegant, erudite book sheds a flood of new light on the relations between art, science, and scholarship in early modern Europe. Deftly using a vast range of visual and textual sources, Bredekamp establishes the forgotten connections between enthusiasm for the antique and the discovery of nature, classical erudition and technical innovation."--Anthony T. Grafton About the Author Horst Bredekamp, author, is the author of ten books and numerous articles, many of them translated into several languages.Allison Brown has translated German scholarly books and essays since 1988. Her main fields of interest include history, art, and the social and political sciences, especially women's and cultural studies. She has an MA in translation science and is certified by the state of Berlin to translate official documents into English.Anthony T. Grafton, is the author of Defenders of the Text, Forgers and Critics, and numerous other books.

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Brand: Markus Wiener Publishers
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1558760938
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Themes & Concepts
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 31 December 1995
Listed Since: 04 January 2007

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