The Lure of Antiquity and the Cult of the Machine

The Lure of Antiquity and the Cult of the Machine

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9781558760943
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
Imprint: Markus Wiener Publishers
Pub date:
DEWEY: 708.94
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 140
Weight: 258g
Height: 228mm
Width: 163mm
Spine width: 12mm