MAIA – Munich | Artefacts, Images, Architecture. Excessive Objects and the Emergence of Style in the Age of Neoclassicism, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2023 | Restoring Antiquity in a Globalizing World: Piranesi's Late Work and the Genesis of the Empire Style, Munich: DKV, 2019. Recent Publications include: Piranesi's Candelabra and the Revival of the Past. Her main research interests are art and architectural history and theory of the eighteenth century and early nineteenth century, classical reception, the anthropology of art, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Gottfried Semper and Aby Warburg. In 2018 van Eck was Panofsky-Professor at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte. In the talk Caroline van Eck will look at the hunt, courtly behaviour, and Gottfried Semper's foundations for a first, global history of artefacts that brought together the disciplines working together in MAIA, to discuss human camouflage in the arts.Ĭaroline van Eck is Professor of the History of Art at the Cambridge University and currently Visiting Professor at I Tatti, Harvard University, Florence. The integrated access opened up by MAIA into the Munich collections in Egyptology, Archaeology, Art History and Ethnology offers the ideal laboratory to investigate some of these questions. The shared domain of animal and human camouflage and mimicry raises many psychological, cultural, behavioural and evolutionary questions about such animal and human behaviour, but it also offers new ways of thinking about the relations between human and other animals, the evolutionary origins of cognition, image-making, and empathy, and new departures for a dialogue between the humanities and life sciences.
It is not restricted to artefacts it also occurs in social behaviour, when people disguise their social status, desires or motives behind appearances they judge to be more acceptable or effective. Humans also practice it, in hunting, war and fashion, social behaviour, and the arts. Camouflage is not the exclusive domain of animals.
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