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 ...
Textiles Entwerfen in Serie
(2022-07-19)
Seamlessness as a design principle: Using the example of the former Swiss textile factory "Hanro," Leonie Häsler describes how fashion was made and clothing produced in the industry. In doing so, she examines the relationships ...
Der Stoff der Räume
(2020-12-18)
Textiles were central material and medium of the European interior in early modern Western and Central Europe. Anika Reineke opens up new perspectives on the aesthetics of the Rococo period, with a particular focus on ...
Atlas der Abwesenheit
(2023-07)
More than 40,000 objects from Cameroon are now kept in public museums in the Federal Republic of Germany - the largest stock worldwide. For the first time, this invisible presence of Cameroon in German museums is traced, ...
Prediger der Demokratie
(2023-06)
After the end of National Socialism, the young West German political science saw itself as the vanguard of German democratization. In West Berlin in particular, political scientists such as Ernst Fraenkel, Ossip Flechtheim ...
Anthropologie der Emotionen
(2023-07)
Emotions, feelings, affective dynamics: The anthropology of emotions has established itself as an interdisciplinary and transnational field of research. 27 authors from social and cultural anthropology, philosophy, psychology, ...
Traces of Gods and Men
(1997-07)
The book provides a vivid introduction to a world of gods and ancestors, their histories and deeds, anchored in the temples built by the inhabitants of a village which is situated on the outskirts of a large tourist centre ...
Schönheit ― Der Körper als Kunstprodukt
(2018-12-10)
For many centuries, new tricks have been devised to perfect the human body itself and in its artistic representation. The volume brings together texts that testify to this striving for beauty, from its beginnings to the ...
A Dictionary of Mupun
(1991)
Mupun is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Plateau State in central Nigeria, in an area within the Lankan District. It is considered a dialect of Mwaghavul.
A Grammar of Mupun
(1993)
Mupun is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Plateau State in central Nigeria, in an area within the Lankan District. It is considered a dialect of Mwaghavul.
Georg Kolbe — The Artist and National Socialism
(2023-12-01)
Georg Kolbe (1877–1947), one of the most important sculptors of the first half of the 20th century in Germany, was an important representative of classical modernism. However, his activities during National Socialism have ...
Christian missions in Africa
(1989)
Alongside colonial administrations and agricultural influences, Christian missions were the most important external factors that have determined development in large parts of sub-Saharan Africa since the 19th century. ...
Georg Kolbe im Nationalsozialismus
(2023-12-01)
Georg Kolbe (1877–1947), one of the most important sculptors of the first half of the 20th century in Germany, was an important representative of classical modernism. However, his activities during National Socialism have ...