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Iran
Lying between deserts, mountain chains and seas, Iran developed a fascinating cultural landscape. 360 objects from the time of the first advanced civilisations during the 3rd millennium BC until the end of the Safavid Empire in the early 18th century illustrate the outstanding significance of Iran as the initiator and centre of intercultural exchange. Exquisite artworks from the Sarikhani Collection in London and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin invite visitors to embark on a journey in time through the cultural heritage of Iran. The highlights include the great pre-Islamic empires of the Achaemenids and the Sassanids, the establishment of a Persian-Islamic culture, the masterly artistic achievements of the 9th to the 13th centuries and the Golden Age of the Safavids. They are brought together as in a multifaceted kaleidoscope in the copious illustrations and provide insight into the art of the courts and the urban elites.
Neues Museum
This lavish publication presents the Neues Museum, badly damaged during the Second World War and recently restored and reopened, in all its glory. Numerous full-page photographs magnificently showcase both the museum's architecture and its collection One of the great museums of the 19th century, the Neues Museum in Berlin, built between 1843 to 1855 to a design by Friedrich August Stuler, was celebrated both for its important collections and its innovative integration of exhibition concept and magnificent interior designs. Badly damaged during the Second World War, the building has been sympathetically restored by the British architect David Chipperfield and his team, whose work skilfully co...
Byzantium and Islam
This magnificent volume explores the epochal transformations and unexpected continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the 7th to the 9th century. At the beginning of the 7th century, the Empire's southern provinces, the vibrant, diverse areas of North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean, were at the crossroads of exchanges reaching from Spain to China. These regions experienced historic upheavals when their Christian and Jewish communities encountered the emerging Islamic world, and by the 9th century, an unprecedented cross- fertilization of cultures had taken place. This extraordinary age is brought vividly to life in insightful contributions by leading international scholars, accompanied...
Die Sprache der Dinge. Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf die materielle Kultur
Dinge sprechen nicht. Wir können sie aber zum Sprechen bringen. Die Autorinnen und Autoren dieses Buches richten in ihren Beiträgen den Blick über die reine Materialität der Dinge hinweg und fragen nach Bedeutungszuweisungen und Interaktionen. Ihr Interesse gilt dem Wandel der Dingkultur, dem Umgang mit den Dingen und ihren vielfachen Abbildfunktionen in historischen und aktuellen Gesellschaften. Die Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler unterschiedlicher Fachdisziplinen – wie der europäischen und außereuropäischen Ethnologie, der Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften, der Geschichts- und Sozialwissenschaften sowie der Archäologie – dokumentieren auf diese Weise ein neues wissenschaftliches Interesse an materieller Kultur. Interdisziplinäres Forschen zwischen ethnografischen Zugängen, historischen Perspektiven, Stadtforschung und Medientheorien steht dabei ebenso im Mittelpunkt wie die Vielfalt der Dinge selbst: Von traditionellen Artefakten in neuen Kontexten reicht der Bogen bis zur Verschmelzung von Daten und Dingen in der Informationsgesellschaft.
The Sarikhani Collection
"This choice collection of the Islamic art of Iran ... tells the story of Persian art over a period of more than a thousand years, from Umayyad times until the onset of the modern period (661-1750)" -- p. 13.
Gnosis
Translated by R. McL. WilsonA full-scale study based on the documents of the Coptic Gnostic library found at Nag Hammadi providing a comprehensive survey of the nature, the teachings, the history and the influence of this religion.
Human Remains from the Former German Colony of East Africa
More than 1100 Human Remains from the former German colony in East Africa exist in the anthropological collection of the Museum of Prehistory and Early History in Berlin. Mainly without any information about who these individuals were, how they died and in which manner they got dislocated, a collaboration of researchers of the University of Rwanda, the National Museums of Rwanda and the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz approached these questions. The research begins with the broader context of colonialism and its local impact to single cases of Human Remains appropriation. Using historical sources, anthropological examinations and comtemporary accounts the origin of the Human Remains were not only recontextualized but interviews conducted in the affected communities also revealed why these human remains should be returned and the variying ways of treatment they should receive thereafter.
Picasso and His Time
This book offers a wide ranging collection of work by Picasso; including paintings, drawings and sculptures, all produced in high quality, large-format illustrations.
Working Through Colonial Collections
Reckoning with colonial legacies in Western museum collections What are the possibilities and limits of engaging with colonialism in ethnological museums? This book addresses this question from within the Africa department of the Ethnological Museum in Berlin. It captures the Museum at a moment of substantial transformation, as it prepared the move of its exhibition to the Humboldt Forum, a newly built and contested cultural centre on Berlin’s Museum Island. The book discusses almost a decade of debate in which German colonialism was negotiated, and further recognised, through conflicts over colonial museum collections. Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork examining the Museum’s ...
