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Work, Legacy, Promise
Aby Warburg is regarded as one of the great pioneers of modern cultural studies. This book brings together texts by many of the most renowned research...
The Kunstkammer and the Evolution of Nature, Art, and Technology
Bredekamp (art history, Humboldt U.) explains the sources of pictures of the Baroque era and offers insights on the relationships between art, science...
Metamorphosen des Anti-Leviathan
Behemoth und Leviathan. Rebellion und Friedensordnung, Bürgerkrieg und souveräne Staatsperson. Die politische Theorie kommt nicht los von den beiden...
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ZKM/Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
"The collection held by the ZKM / Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe displays works of art ranging from those executed using classical painting techni...
The Oral Cavity in Art and Culture
Mund, Lippen, Zunge und Zähne – Sprache, Schmerz und Schrei – Essen, Schlingen, Speien und Spucken – Lust und Leidenschaft: Die Mundhöhle ist ...
DIE SANIERUNG / THE RESTORATION
The photographer Alexander Schippel (*1979, Berlin) has taken on one of Berlin?s historic architectural monuments: starting in 2011, he spent seven ye...
Frank O. Gehry's Fondation Louis Vuitton
The Fondation Louis Vuitton by Frank O. Gehry rises from the Bois de Boulogne as a new landmark in the Parisian skyline. Gehry’s dynamic architectur...
Mannerism, Anti-Mannerism and the Virtue of Drawing in the Foundation of Early Modern Science
Contemporary biographies of Galilei emphasize, in several places, that he was a masterful draughtsman. In fact, Galilei studied at the art academy, wh...
A Systematic Approach to Visual Agency
Heavily represented sections of contemporary philosophy subscribe to the notion of "embodiment". However promising this pragmatic turn of events may b...
Bilder besitzen die Fähigkeit, menschliche Handlungen aktiv zu beeinflussen. Dies scheint im Widerspruch zu ihrem Status als Artefakt zu stehen. Der ...
Body politic as visual strategy in the work of Thomas Hobbes
Horst Bredekamp’s subject is the astute deployment and perennial resonance of the startling image of the body politic that dominates the frontispiec...
Forms of Change and Constancy of Antiquity in the Iberian Peninsula 500-1500
"Medieval thinkers were convinced that they themselves were still citizens of the empire, which had been founded by Augustus." This book is devoted to...
Views from the Outside : a Centennial Commemoration of Erwin Panofsky (1892-1968)
A New Model of Evolution and the Tradition of Natural History
To this day Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory of the "survival of the fittest" has been visualized with the universal model of a tree of life. But ...
Rethinking Their Relationship in the Light of New Observations : the Twentieth Horst Gerson Lecture Held in Memory of Horst Gerson (1907-1978) in the Aula of the University of Groningen on the 4th of October 2019
Sometimes art is also a political gesture of historical significance. In the case of Reims Cathedral, the crown jewel of French sacred architecture, t...