Reflecting on the technological age, poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote of the intense emotions with which people can endow manufactured objects. We seem to "charge" the world of things as we would a battery. Now German art historian Christoph Asendorf explores this transformation of human sense perception in the industrial age and contributes to a new understanding of European culture and modernity. Drawing from literature, painting, architecture, film, philosophy, anthropology, and popular culture, Asendorf offers rich analyses of works by Manet, Baudelaire, Monet, Zola, Benjamin, Heidegger, and Duchamp. These close readings are combined with a montage of key cultural images and events ranging from Paxton's Crystal Palace to the introduction of electricity. The result is a striking account of the emergence of consumer culture within the developing commodity economy of modern Europe. Certain to challenge the mono-disciplinary perspectives of many specialists, this book will interest historians of art, culture, literature, science, and technology.

Batteries of Life: On the History of Things and Their Perception in Modernity (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism)

Arts & Photography

Asendorf, Christoph

History & Criticism

University of California Press

Asien und die Avantgarden: Entwürfe einer pluralen Moderne 1910–2020 (Undisziplinierte Bücher, 11) (German Edition)

Reference

de Gruyter

This is ISBN listed in my book (3-7757-1250-X), but mine is PAPERBACK. In German, very slight shelf wear, no marks.

Edvard Munch. Thema und Variation

Bisanz-Prakken, Marian

Schröder, Albrecht

Wien, Albertina

Hatje Cantz Verlag

London-based artist Lothar Götz (born 1963) takes the geometric delineations of empty building interiors as the starting point for his intensely colorful abstract murals. He begins with drawings, which may then incarnate as murals later on; these murals then convert architectural space into bright, vertiginous geometries.

Lothar Götz: Works 2011

Weigel, Viola

Hatje Cantz

Fernand Leger 1911-1924: The Rhythm of Modern Life

Kosinski, Dorothy M.

Léger, Fernand

Biographies & Memoirs

Prestel Pub

Batterien der Lebenskraft: Zur Geschichte der Dinge und ihrer Wahrnehmung im 19. Jahrhundert (Werkbund-Archiv) (German Edition)

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Anabas-Verlag

Batterien der Lebenskraft.

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