The Lure of Antiquity and the Cult of the Machine

by Horst Bredekamp, Anthony T Grafton, Allison Brown

Overview

The 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. Bredekamp advances a radical view that the baroque Kunstkammer is also the nucleus of modern cyberspace.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781558760943
Publisher:	Wiener, Markus Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date:	01/23/2016
Series:	Cultural and Museum Studies Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	154
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.36(d)

Editorial Reviews

Bredekamp (art history, Humboldt U.) explains the sources of pictures of the Baroque era and offers insights on the relationships between art, science, and scholarship in early modern Europe, in this analysis of the Kunstkammer, displays of art and oddities amassed by wealthy Europeans during the 16th to the 18th centuries. He combines analysis of images with interpretation of texts in a new account of the development of aesthetics and natural history of the period. Includes b&w photos. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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