by Horst Bredekamp (Author), Anthony T. Grafton (Introduction by), Allison Brown (Translator)
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.
Number of Pages: 154
Dimensions: 0.36 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: January 23, 2016