The Lure of Antiquity and the Cult of the Machine

by Horst Bredekamp

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.

Genres: Art History, History, Academia, Art, History Of Science

154 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1995

About the author

Horst Bredekamp ist ein deutscher Kunsthistoriker und Bildwissenschaftler.