Prof. Michael Diers
Michael Diers, art historian and critic, is Professor for Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg and Extraordinary Professor for Art History at the Humboldt University of Berlin. His research focuses on Renaissance Art, modernism and contemporary art, photography and new media, art und media theory, political iconography and history of science. He is co-editor of the Collected Writings of Aby Warburg and was the longstanding editor of the paperback series “kunststück“ and „Fundus“. In addition, he works as a freelance writer for the German newspapers „Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” and „Süddeutsche Zeitung”.
Select publications
Monographs
Vor aller Augen. Studien zu Kunst, Bild und Politik [In Plain View. Studies About Art, Illustration and Politics], Paderborn 2016.
Film, Fotografie, Video. Beiträge zu einer kritischen Theorie des Bildes [Film, Photography, Video. Contributions to a Critical Theory of the Illustration], Hamburg 2006.
Schlagbilder. Zur politischen Ikonographie der Gegenwart [‘Schlagbilder’. About Political Iconography of the Present Time], Frankfurt a.M. 1997.
Warburg aus Briefen [Warburg from Letters], Weinheim 1991.
As an editor
(with Bärbel Hedinger) Max Liebermann: Die Kunstsammlung. Von Rembrandt bis Manet” [Max Liebermann: The Art Collection. From Rembrandt to Manet ], München 2013.
(with Lars Blunck and Hans Ulrich Obrist) Das Interview. Formen und Funktionen des Künstlergesprächs seit Vasari [The Interview. Forms and functions of the discussions with artists since Vasari], Hamburg 2013.
(with Monika Wagner) Topos Atelier. Werkstatt und Wissensform [Topos atelier. Workshop and form of knowledge], Berlin 2009.
(with Hans Haacke) Hans Haacke, ‚Der Bevölkerung’ [Hans Haacke: ‘for the population’], Köln 2000.