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

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

Editorial Reviews
Journal of the History of Collections, vol. 9, no. 1 (1997)
...With its presentation of familiar and less familiar material in new and often surprising relationships, this book is a pleasure to read, whether for its reinterpretation of these collections, for its re-reading of Francis Bacon's Advancement of Learning as a theory of the metamorphosis from normal nature via the monsters of 'erring' nature to 'nature altered and wrought', or for its confrontation of Winckelmann and Piranesi as two variants of the beginnings of alienation between art and technique in the second half of the 18th century. Bredekamp offers a perspective for looking at the recent blurring or fading, in the age of the computer, of the boundaries between nature, art and technology and at the growing interest in the encyclopaedic Kunstkammer that goes with it...

Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

The Lure of Antiquity and the Cult of the Machine: The Kunstkammer and the Evolution of Nature, Art, and Technology,Horst Bredekamp,Markus Wiener Publishers,M. Wiener Pub.,1558760946,17th century,18th century,Art,Art & Art Instruction,Art and technology,Art museums,Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General,Europe,History

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