Am 16. Januar 2025 um 18 Uhr wird Prof. Dr. Ittai Weinryb (Bard Graduate Center, New York City) im HdU bei seinem Vortrag „Toward Mercantile Aesthetics: Rethinking Distance, Difference, and Design" zu produktionsästhetischen Bedingungen der mittelalterlichen Goldschmiedekunst sprechen.
The lecture is set to explore the rise of mercantilism in proto-capitalist Europe as a way for us to reconsider medieval and early modern aesthetic thinking. Examples from the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean, and the Black Sea, will help uncover how newly discovered fetishistic notions regarding image and thing, helped generate new aesthetic categories based on perception not grounded in philosophical or theological scholasticism.