The Lure of Antiquity and the Cult of the Machine
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (905 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1558760946 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 154 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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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.. The Kunstkammer was a display of art and oddities amassed by wealthy Europeans during the 16th to 18th centuries
"A handful of black-and-white photographs illustrate this thoughtful treatise" according to Midwest Book Review. The history of art encompasses all aspects of human creativity throughout the annals of recorded human history. Horst Bredekamp (Professor of Art History at Humbolt University, Berlin) presents The Lure of Antiquity and the Cult of the Machine: The Kunstkammer and the Evolution of Nature, Art, and Technology, a close examination of the baroque Kunstkammer - a display of art and unusual discoveries assembled by wealthy Europeans in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. These prot
Grafton, Princeton University, is the author of Defenders of the Text, Forgers and Critics, and numerous other books. Grafton: Anthony T. About Anthony T. . About Horst Bredekamp: Horst Bredekamp, Humboldt University, Berlin, is the author of six books and numerous articles, many of them translated into several languages
The objects in question, ancient sculptures and automata, are invested by him with a pivotal significance, lying between the products of nature and those of a man as a `second God'. In other words, to return to Bredekamp's thesis, the question remains of what visual impressions contemporary viewers could have absorbed in this continuous, progressive chain of 1730 which could have prepared them for the totally different historical viewpoint of 1780. An example is the frontispiece of the Tabulae Rudolphinae (1617), the publication of Johannes Kepler's mathematical tables: here is shown a circular temple with ten columns, which by their gradations from natural state to cultivation, from rough blocks of stone via bricks to polished marble, represent the development of science f