The ancient cultures of East Asia, the Near and Middle East and the Mediterranean were characterised by spectacular scientific findings and advances, which are mirrored and enhanced in their mythology. Hesitantly in the late Gothic period, but more insistently during the Italian Renaissance, this knowledge gradually permeated Europe, although initially meeting with resistance from the Christian Church. The book accompanying the exhibition deals with the latest research on science and technology in myth and art from antiquity to the golden age of Arab-Islamic culture. Light is shed on the early precise records of astronomical events, as well as the technology of automata and kinetic sculpture. The latest findings relating e. g. to the famous Greek Antikythera mechanism, a form of analogue computer, or the sophisticated revolving ceilings and floors of the banquet halls in the Roman Emperor Nero’s palace illustrate the significance of sculpture’s automatisation in reference to the natural sciences in Islamic-Arabic culture. Magnificent works of art reflecting ancient myths, models of animated sculptures, impressive scientific apparatus and automata from the Mediterranean and Islamic-Arab cultural spheres International authors reflect on current research into the history of science in conjunction with art technology Exhibition: Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt/M., 08.03.2023 to 21.01.2024
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- 2023
- 2018
O sentimental machine
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
William Kentridge superstar: The South African William Kentridge (*1955) is highly regarded internationally for his works, which he realizes with masterly ease. They combine the humoresque with the incidental and are always characterized by an engaged, critical stance. With the exhibition O Sentimental Machine, his works enter into further dialogue with the grand narratives of civilization based on the entire sculpture collection of the Liebieghaus, which spans 5,000 years. Kentridge understands how to subvert these narratives and simultaneously point out his own entanglements. The accompanying publication carries this historical and political moment forward in the format of a quasi-fictitious guide to the collection.00Exhibition: Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (22.03.-26.08.2018).
- 2012
Jeff Koons (born 1955) is probably the most famous artist of the 1980s, and certainly one of the most notorious and controversial. In the summer of 2012, the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung and the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt are collaborating on a bold and unprecedented simultaneous overview of Koons' sculptural and painterly oeuvre. The Liebieghaus show, titled Jeff Koons: The Sculptor, creates a dialogue between Koons' sculptures (both world-renowned and recent works) and the nineteenth-century villa whose collection spans 5,000 years of sculpture, from Ancient Egypt to the present. The artist fell in love with the Liebieghaus after visiting the city on his way to the German company Arnold, which produced his oversize works in polished steel, such as the Balloon Flower sculptures of the 1990s. The Schirn's exhibit, Jeff Koons: The Painter, focuses on the artist's monumental paintings, whose motifs draw upon the most varied sources of high and popular culture, from Manet to Popeye. This volume includes color reproductions of paintings from the breadth of Koons' 30-year career
- 2010
Circumlitio
The Polychromy of Antique and Medieval Sculpture
- 2008
Masterworks at the Liebieghaus
- 185 pages
- 7 hours of reading
Das Liebieghaus in Frankfurt am Main gehört zu den bedeutenden Skulpturensammlungen Europas. Aus Anlass der Neugestaltung der Innenräume ist der gestalterisch aufwendige Übersichtsband mit Meisterwerken erschienen. Gezeigt werden Objekte der ägyptischen und ostasiatischen Kunst, der griechischen und römischen Antike, frühmittelalterliche Elfenbeinarbeiten, romanische Kruzifixe und Madonnen, gotische Altarfiguren, berühmte Renaissancestandfiguren und -reliefs sowie Barockbüsten und Werke des Klassizismus. deutschsprachige Ausgabe: ISBN 978-3-86568-364-9
- 2007
Gods in Color
- 191 pages
- 7 hours of reading
ForewordMAX HOLLEINESSAYSA HISTORY OF RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP ON THE POLYCHROMY OF ANCIENT SCULPTUREVINZENZ BRINKMANNON THE POLYCHROMY OF ANCIENT SCULPTUREVINZENZ. BRINKMANN AND ULRIKE KOCH-BRINKMANNREDISCOVERING COLORPolychrome Art from Ancient Egypt and the Near EastRENÉE DREYFUSESSAYSTHE DISCOVERY OF THE POLYCHROMY OF ANCIENT GREEK SCULPTUREWinckelmann's Research on Statues and TextsOLIVER PRIMAVESICOLOR AND LIGHTDodwell and Pomardi in GreeceJOHN CAMP.ANCIENT PAINTS AND.PAINTING TECHNIQUES Methods of InvestigationVINZENZ BRINKMANN, ULRIKE KOCH-BRINKMANN, AND HEINRICH PIENINGCATALOGUE OF THE EXHIBITIONBibliographyAcknowledgmentsMAX HOLLEINPhotography Credits.