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Wild Apollo’s Arrows. An illustrated introduction I
I Classic / Anti-Classic Decades before the French Revolution, a culture of intoxicating affects burst into the heyday of the Enlightenment, increasingly boosted by national-mythical and folkloristic enthusiasm. The cultural philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder compared its impact to the epidemic projectiles that marked the beginning of Homer’s battle epic Iliad. Terms such as the ‘Age […]
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Wild Apollo’s Arrows. An illustrated introduction II
III Blind Visionaries –True Homers Paintings Gallery The dismantling of noble Homer had already begun in the 1730s, in the cultural-anthropological milieu of the Scottish Enlightenment, which was characterised by approaches based on early cognitive science and evolutionary theory. The atavistic portrait bust, which on a self-portrait of the Edinburgh barber and graphical chronicler John […]
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Wild Apollo’s Arrows. An illustrated introduction III
V Companionship of the Afterlife. Departure to the Past Exhibit Gallery The mesmerist influence on the Romantic generation was highlighted ideal-typically by several heads of a book of portraits that Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, a main proponent of the Brotherhood of St Luke, created between 1816 and 1824 in Rome. Their gazes to the afterlife […]
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Plädoyer fürs Abzeichnen. Der grafische Katalog “Ausstellen des Ausstellens”
Die große Sonderausstellung „Ausstellen des Ausstellens“ in der Kunsthalle Baden-Baden widmet sich der Geschichte der Kunstpräsentation bis heute. Ihren Ausgangspunkt nimmt sie bei den Vorläufern der modernen Museen, den Kunst- oder Wunderkammern der Barockzeit. Sie endet bei aktuellen kuratorischen Situationen, die auch im Stadtraum zu erleben sind. Die Konzeption knüpft an die institutionskritischen Vorstöße der […]