The Lure of Antiquity and the Cult of the Machine

Bredekamp, Horst

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Author
Bredekamp, Horst
Publish Date
11/01/1995
Book Type
Paperback
Publisher Name
MARKUSW
Subtitle
The Kunstkammer and the Evolution of Nature, Art and Technology
Number of Pages
168
Edition
New Edition
ISBN-10
1558760946
ISBN-13
9781558760943
citemno
259061
SKU
9781558760943

Description

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.