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Franco Stella: The Berlin Castle - Humboldt Forum

Tracing Franco Stella's process in the hotly debated reconstruction of the Berlin Palace

In 2008, renowned Italian architect Franco Stella (born 1943) was tasked with the reimagining of the Berlin…

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Bild/Geschichte: Festschrift Fur Horst Bredekamp

Der Titel BILD/GESCHICHTE lasst eine Vielzahl von Verbindungen assoziieren - von der Geschichtlichkeit der Bilder bis zur Rolle der Bilder als ‘Akteure’ in der Geschichte. Die beiden Begriffe bezeichnen die…

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Die Fenster der Monade: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’ Theater der Natur und Kunst

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Das Buch steht im Zusammenhang des Versuches, die zentrale Rolle der Bilder fur die Ausbildung der modernen Philosophie am Beispiel bedeutender Gestalten des siebzehnten Jahrhunderts zu rekonstruieren. Das Projekt begann…

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Thomas Hobbes - Der Leviathan: Das Urbild des modernen Staates und seine Gegenbilder. 1651-2001

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Von Natur aus ist der Mensch so frei wie woelfisch. Um sich selbst zu bandigen, muss er folglich einen kunstlichen Riesen schaffen, den Staat, der als ubergeordnete Instanz den permanenten…

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Galileis denkende Hand: Form und Forschung um 1600

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Galileis denkende Hand stellt eine grundlegende UEberarbeitung des im Jahr 2007 erschienenen Werkes Galilei, der Kunstler dar. Bereinigt um eine fehlerhafte Zuschreibung, entfaltet es auf stark erweiterter Grundlage das kunstlerische…

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Darwin’s Corals: A New Model of Evolution and the Tradition of Natural History

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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 early on in Darwin’s…

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Image Acts: A Systematic Approach to Visual Agency

Horst Bredekamp

Heavily represented sections of contemporary philosophy subscribe to the notion of embodiment . The book subdivides this sphere into three parts: imitation, substitution, and the pure effect of the form…

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Ursprung des Bildakts

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Der Ursprung des Bildakts bindet die in den letzten drei Jahrzehnten erzielten Forschungsergebnisse der Vor- und Fruhgeschichte kunsthistorisch ein und ist als anthropologische Grundlegung einer Wirkmacht der Form konzipiert. Fossilien-Inklusionen…

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Alexander Schippel: Staatsoper Unter den Linden. Die Sanierung / The Restoration

Berlin?s most beautiful cultural construction: the restoration of the Staatsoper, documented in photographs by Alexander Schippel-you’ll never see the building like this again

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Transformatio Et Continuatio: 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," according to William Heckscher. This book is devoted to substantiate this…

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Galileo’s Thinking Hand: Mannerism, Anti-Mannerism and the Virtue of Drawing in the Foundation of Early Modern Science

Horst Bredekamp

Galileo’s Thinking Hand represents a fundamental revision of the earlier work Galileo, the Artist published in 2007. New insights reveal Galileo’s working methods as he explored the moon, sun, moons…

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Image Acts: A Systematic Approach to Visual Agency

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Heavily represented sections of contemporary philosophy subscribe to the notion of embodiment . The book subdivides this sphere into three parts: imitation, substitution, and the pure effect of the form…

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Leviathan: Body politic as visual strategy in the work of Thomas Hobbes

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Horst Bredekamp’s subject is the astute deployment and perennial resonance of the startling image of the body politic that dominates the frontispiece to Leviathan: a treatise on the psychology of…

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Mathesis & Graphe: Leonhard Euler Und Die Entfaltung Der Wissensysteme

Die Forschung zu und uber Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) verweist oft darauf, dass das Entstehen und Etablieren neuer Zeichenpraktiken zum dominierenden Legitimationsmuster der ubersichtlichen Mathematik in der Zeit der Aufklarung wird…

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Leibniz’ Lager

What would it have looked like, Leibniz’s Warehouse? What kinds of objects would the polymath have stored in a chamber of curiosities of his own?

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A Galileo Forgery: Unmasking the New York Sidereus Nuncius

Describes how the discovery of forgery was made - a watershed moment in the continuing struggle between forgers and those who seek to apprehend them.

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The Technical Image

Horst Bredekamp

Using beautifully reproduced visuals, this book not only reveals how scientific images play a constructive role in shaping the findings and insights they illustrate, but also - however mechanical or…

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

Horst Bredekamp

The Kunstkammer was a display of art and oddities amassed by wealthy Europeans during the 16th to 18th centuries. This text explores the relations between art, science and scholarship in…

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Das Originale der Kopie

Although Antiquity itself has been intensively researched, together with its reception, to date this has largely happened in a compartmentalized fashion. This series presents for the first time an interdisciplinary…

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On the Good Ship Lollipop: Frank O. Gehry’s Fondation Louis Vuitton

Horst Bredekamp,James S. Ackerman,Irving Lavin

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 architecture is both glittering and multifaceted…

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Instrumente Des Sehens

Mit dem Thema Instrumente des Sehens wird die Frage gestellt, inwieweit Wahrnehmung zugleich auch Bearbeitung ermoeglicht und Wahrnehmungstheorien demzufolge auch Handlungsregeln implizieren. Bilder als Element einer Technik zu begreifen, bedeutet…

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Imagination Des Himmels

Bilder des Himmels und des Weltalls, von den ersten Sternwarten bis zu aktuellen Aufnahmen vom Mars, markieren jenen spannungsvollen Grenzverlauf zwischen kunstlerischer und wissenschaftlicher Imagination, der gerade in dem Versuch…

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Mathematische Forme(l)N

Wenn sich Kalkule entwickeln, Grenzwerte errechnet werden, ein Koordinatenkreuz gezeichnet wird, in dem die Stetigkeit, Differenzierbarkeit und die Integration von Funktionen in Erscheinung treten, so werden Vorstellungen abstrahiert - es…

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Morphologien

Die (sichtbare) Welt ist gepragt von einer unermesslichen Vielfalt von Formen, Mustern und Strukturen. Deren Betrachtung und Bewertung hat zu Methoden der Beschreibung, Darstellung, Analyse und Klassifikation gefuhrt, welche fur…

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

Horst Bredekamp (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany)

The Kunstkammer was a display of art and oddities amassed by wealthy Europeans during the 16th to 18th centuries. This text explores the relations between art, science and scholarship in…

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Imi Knoebel: Reims

Brand-new glass works from the great minimalist

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On Everyone’s Lips: The Oral Cavity in Art and Culture

Andreas Beitin,Hartmut Boehme,Horst Bredekamp,Kolja Thurner,Roland Garve

Stimulating art from a stimulating physical zone

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The Vertigo of Reality: How Beholders Re-Invent Art

Horst Bredekamp,Michael Diers,Sabine Flach,Birgit Hein,Slavko Kacunko

In autumn 2014 in Berlin, the Akademie der Kunste’s ‘Vertigo of Reality’ exhibition showcased artistic strategies and practices reflecting on and engaging with a viewer’s perception and involvement where a…

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Aby Warburg 150: 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 researchers in the field who…

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