Olson RJM Roberta J.M. / Elisa Mazzaferro / PL Patricia L. Reilly / Paul Glasziou / Rupert Shepherd

Broschiertes Buch

Biog of Object

Beschreibung

The famous call, made nineteen years ago by Appadurai and Kopytoff, that students of material culture should study the 'social life' of things has, until now, had a limited effect upon students of the Italian Renaissance. The essays in this book - part of the recent burgeoning interest in Italian Renaissance material culture - rise to Appadurai and Kopytoff's challenge, examining the 'lives' led by objects in late medieval and Renaissance Italy: their creations, lives and subsequent after-lives. Situating objects and their biographies in their cultural, social and economic contexts, the contributors discuss the 'social lives' of a range of objects in late-medieval and Renaissance Italy: maiolica, sculpture, artists' autobiographies, plate for the table, cassoni, glassware, prostitutes' jewellery, miraculous painted images, choir-screens, chapels, and antiquities. An introductory essay discusses the forms of evidence at the disposal of students of material culture and their relationship to the objects whose lives they seem to illuminate.

Autor

Roberta J.M. Olson is Professor Emeritus of Art History at Wheaton College in Massachusetts. She has worked as Curator of Drawings at the New-York Historical Society for seven years. Patricia L. Reilly is Assistant Professor of Art History at Swarthmore College. She is currently finishing a book on Raphael, Giorgio Vasari and the development of what she terms the 'Florentine Visual Vernacular'. Rupert Shepherd is based in the Department of Western Art at the Ashmolean Museum. His previous employment included two years as a research fellow at the University of Sussex, working on the collaborative project The Material Renaissance: Costs and Consumption in Italy c.1300-1650.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 237g
• ISBN-13: 9781405139557
• ISBN-10: 1405139552
• Artikelnr.: 22047981

Rezensionen

"All in all, this is a useful, at times thought-provoking, and never less than informative collection of essays." (Sixteenth Century Journal, Winter 2008)"A lot is packed into this slim volume; big claims are made forsmall objects, which can only be a good thing, and with any luck itwill generate further debate about the methods by which we analyse'pre-modern' things."
-Catherine Richardson, University of Birmingham