Technik als Kunst

Automaten in der griechisch-römischen Antike und deren Rezeption in der frühen Neuzeit als Ideal der Kunst oder Modell für Philosophie und Wirtschaft

In the Greek-Roman antiquity art and technology were summarized under the same term, in modern times they have been divorced. The old automata stand on the border between the two - according to the classification, insofar as their aesthetic values go parallel with apparently palpable uselessness as a rule, according to the time, insofar as they have finally sunk from


  • Author: Pascal Weitmann
  • ISBN: 978 3 8030 1061 2
  • Size: 21 x 30 cm. Hardcover
  • Edition: 1st edition, original edition

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  • The history of the Greco-Roman automata gains far-reaching interest against the background of their embedding in intellectual history, in antiquity as well as – even more so – in modern times. Thus, a comprehensive new approach was necessary, one that takes a look at them from the archaic period to the middle of the 18th century AD. Whereas antiquity had left the automaton largely to imitative, suggestive, or representational purposes in the realm of the visual arts, in modern times a move away from it increasingly prevailed, toward mechanization in economic contexts. The book therefore concludes with an appendix that addresses the old question of why no industrial revolution took place in antiquity.

  • Author Pascal Weitmann
    ISBN 978 3 8030 1061 2
    Size 21 x 30 cm. Hardcover
    Number of pages 204 pages
    Illustrations 55 blackboards with 160 illustrations
    Languages German
    Edition 1st edition, original edition
    Release May 2013
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