Von mehr als einer Welt
Subtitle: die Künste der Aufklärung
By: für die Kunstbibliothek-Staatliche Museen zu Berlin herausgegeben von Moritz Wullen in Zusammenarbeit mit Michael Lailach und Jörg Völlnagel
Contributors: Kunstbibliothek (Berlin, Germany)
Publisher: Kunstbibliothek-Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; Michael Imhof Verlag
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berlin; Petersberg
Language: ger
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9783865687999
Subjects: European Arts; Exhibitions; Modern Arts; Enlightenment
Description: The European Enlightenment is famed as an epoch of literature and philosophy, an epoch of writing. Its significance for the fine arts, however, has often been overlooked, which is unfair, for in art the Enlightenment found a force that is able to change our world by creating new ones. The exhibition 'On the Plurality of Worlds' revolves around this revolutionary idea, inspired by the speculations of Enlightenment thinkers that our cosmos is merely one of many universes. The exhibition derives its name from the title of a book that fuelled the imaginations of Enlightenment thinkers more than any other: Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle's Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds, published in 1686. The Kulturforum is an ideal place to present this art historical panorama, where so many vital collections converge on each other.0Exhibition: Kulturforum, Berlin, Germany (10.5.-5.8.2012).
Notes: Catalog of the exhibition at the Kunstbibliothek, May 10 through 5 August 2012.

Includes bibliographical references.