Publications
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image/con/text
(2020-10-05)
In photo books, but also in film, multimedia, and comics, current journalistic and artistic narrative forms open up new perspectives for the field of photojournalism and documentary photography that expand the view beyond ...
Lehr- und Schausammlungen im Wandel
(2021-08-19)
How can public and university collections be preserved and exhibited in the future? Currently, the presentation of such collections is often determined by changes in the institutions. The history of disciplines and ...
Historienmalerei
(1996)
[English version below] <br>Mit 43 Quellentexten von Leon Battista Alberti bis ins späte 19. Jahrhundert gibt der Band "Historienmalerei" einen umfassenden Überblick über die Theoriegeschichte dieser Gattung, welcher die ...
Kultur unterwegs: Relevanz einer Instanz
(2021-12-15)
Why is it that culture nowadays is hardly considered powerful whereas Jacob Burckhardt in his days declared it as a matter of course? 13 experts from a wide range of disciplines seek answers to the question of the relevance ...
Medien der Offenbarung
(2008)
Complementary to revelation in the Word, Christianity depends on visual media that provide insight into the realm of the otherwise invisible. One such medium for the Christian Middle Ages is the vision, which, however, ...
In der Mitte Berlins
(2010)
In 2010, the discipline of art history at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin celebrated its 200th anniversary. This publication offers the first summary history of the discipline in Berlin from 1810 to the present. At the ...
Mittanische und mittelassyrische Keramik
(1995)
Our knowledge of the Late Bronze Age utilitarian pottery of northern Mesopotamia has so far been based on a rather eclectic source material that did not offer anything approaching typological completeness and defied a more ...
Lebende Bilder
(1999)
Living pictures, tableaux vivants, are scenic arrangements of people who remain silent and motionless for a short time, thus forming an image for the viewer. The special practice of re-enacting works of art took its beginning ...
Sehen im Vergleich
(2020-02)
Vera Beyer compares transformations of gazes and gaze dispositives in Persian and Western European book illumination from the 13th to the 16th century. How are covetous gazes legitimized? What are the conditions of the ...
Humboldt Lab Tanzania
(2018)
Numerous objects are kept in the storages of the Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin that were plundered from what was then known as German East Africa during the German colonial period of 1886-1918, for instance, during the ...