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Bildakt at the Warburg Institute by Sabine Marienberg and Jürgen Trabant is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Bildakt at the Warburg Institute about?
When I became Director of the Warburg Institute in Autumn 2010 I enjoyed the privilege of being invited to the weekly meeting of the Bildakt group in Berlin. I was struck by the importance of the ideas which were being discussed and by the easy interchange of ideas and practical advice between art historians and philosophers, between internationally eminent scholars and post-doctoral fellows. It seemed to me that the Bildakt group offered a model of collaborative research. Together members of the group were exploring a complex of ideas around the relationships between bodies, art objects, language and thought at the same time as conducting philologically detailed research projects of their own. I was entranced both by their way of approaching the human responses to art and its relation to embodiment and language and by their style of working. It seemed to me that Anglophone cultural and art historians needed to experience their approach at first hand and that the Warburg Institute in London, which was already so closely connected to many of their research ideas and aspirations, was the right place to present this encounter. I was delighted when Horst Bredekamp, Jürgen Trabant and o
Who reads Bildakt at the Warburg Institute?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Sabine Marienberg and Jürgen Trabant
- Publisher
- De Gruyter, Inc.
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783110364637
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Humanities