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This book offers for the first time an overview of the unique collection of photography and new media held by the Museum f�r Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MKG). From the beginnings of photography to contemporary pieces, the collection includes more than 75,000 works. The MKG, an arts and crafts museum, already began collecting photography towards the end of the nineteenth century and played a pioneering role as the first museum in Germany to open its doors to the medium. As early as the turn of the century, photography was already being acquired as a medium in its own right, and the first exhibitions devoted to it were held starting in 1911. ReVision explores this extensive and multifaceted c...
Eksempler fra museets samlinger af europæisk kunsthåndværk fra antikken til nutiden. Desuden østasiatisk og islamisk kunsthåndværk, tekstiler, grafik og fotografi. Oversigt over særudstillinger og arrangementer. Links til andre museer i Hamburg. Tysk og engelsk version.
KADOC Artes 8The art of illumination, usually associated with the Middle Ages, experienced a spectacular revival in nineteenth-century Western Europe. This completely different context gave the illuminations another import. The output of the lay and religious workshops reveals a great artistic, stylistic, technical, and thematic diversity. The works illuminated go far beyond the world of exceptional and precious manuscripts and include many occasional documents and devotional images.Richly illustrated with unpublished masterworks, The Revival of Medieval Illumination is an overview of the form by fifteen authors who do not limit their approach to the traditional questions of art history. Rather, they explore the historical, sociocultural, ideological and religious components of the revival, which changed according to time and country, in order to understand the evolution and success of the art of illumination in the long nineteenth century.