Many elements of our contemporary culture demonstrate a negation of the dividing line between nature and culture as between picture and body. In many spheres, and even so also in the sciences, pictures are not only used as a tool of knowledge, but become parts of the object which is to be detected.
In these forms of transformation concepts are coming up again, which were especially treated in the epoch of the historical mannerism, around 1600. The lecture will ask if our time can be seen as a special form of neomannerism.
This lecture was held at the 2016 Holberg Symposium: "Art in Life / Life in Art" in honour of Holberg Laureate Stephen Greenblatt.
Biography: Dr. Horst Bredekamp is Professor in Art History and the History of Images at Humboldt University, Berlin. Since 2003, Bredekamp has been a Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin. Select works: Darwins Korallen (2005) and Der Bildakt (2015).