Birgit Recki - Böcker

The fourteenth volume of the Vorträge aus dem Warburg Haus brings together lectures, whose spectrum of contents extends from the "pillar of angels" of the Strasbourg Cathedral to the aesthetic potential of "mille artifex" in the early modern period and views of the island of Taiwan on leather wall hangings of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, up to Donald Trump’s use of images. With texts by Jacqueline E. Jung, Jörg Jochen Berns, Elisabeth Bronfen, Shai-Shu Tzeng, and Uwe Fleckner.

The fifteenth volume of lectures from the Warburg House brings together contributions whose spectrum of content ranges from the dispute over the dome of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome in the mid-18th century to Aby Warburg's scientific and popular educational commitment to the Hamburg Planetarium and the aesthetic treatment of machine and technology. With contributions by Pascal Dubourg Glatigny, Emmanuel Alloa, Alexander Honold, Birgit Recki, and Gertrud Koch.

The 16th volume of lectures from the Warburg House, Hamburg, brings together contributions covering a spectrum ranging from the different modes of perception of late antique and medieval mosaics in the light of modern reproduction techniques to Las Hilanderas of Diego Velázquez, the afterlife of Théodore Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa and René Magritte's „images peintes“ to new reflections on femininity, the gaze and the „afterlife“ of the Shoah in the work of Boris Lurie. With contributions by Barbara Schellewald, Victor I. Stoichita, Gregor Wedekind, Wolfram Picher, and Katharina Sykora.