Just published: Das verirrte Kunstwerk. Bedeutung, Funktion und Manipulation von »Bilderfahrzeugen« in der Diaspora
Volume 20 of the Warburg-Haus Studies
edited by Uwe Fleckner and Elena Tolstichin
November 2019, Copyright 2020 ISBN 978-3-11-054463-3 (hardcover), ISBN 978-3-11-054568-5 (eBook), € [D] 69,95
From time immemorial, works of art have been moved in space and time to locations that are significantly different from the places they are thought to originate from. But how do such translocations come about? What are the consequences for the appearance, semantics, and function of the artefacts? And how are they categorized or manipulated by contemporaries and researchers?
These questions are addressed by the publication’s contributions which, in particular, analyze the ideological and power-political dimensions of such migrations. The case studies cover stolen god statues in antiquity through to borrowed motifs in the early modern age, misunderstood works of supposedly »primitive art through to »rescued« architecture fragments at the present time.
