The Matter of Art

Materials, Practices, Cultural Logics, C.1250-1750
Herausgeber: Breward, Christopher; Smith, Pamela H; Dunlop, Anne; Sherman, Bill; Anderson, Christy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Wood or stone, wax or silk - materials shaped the meaning of early modern art. Transformed and crafted from the matter of nature, art objects were the physical embodiment of both the inherent qualities of materials and the forces of culture that used and produced them. The making and marketing of art depended upon the manipulation of both exotic and everyday materials; and interest in materials and objects reached a peak in the years between 1250 and 1750, spurred on by expanding networks of global trade, nation-building, and scientific exploration. Drawing on new research and models from anthropology, material culture, and the history of art and science, the essays in The Matter of Art explore topics as diverse as Inka stonework, gold in panel painting, Chinese inkstones, and European wax sculpture. Going beyond technical analyses, each chapter interprets materials in the light of artistic practices and the cultural contexts that shaped objects. The study of materials cuts across the usual geographical and disciplinary boundaries in this important period in the history of art, science, and culture, linking the close study of painting, sculpture and architecture with a much wider category of everyday and exotic objects. At stake is not only a new understanding of early modernity, but also the implications of our contemporary 'material turn.' Students of art and architecture will find essays by leading scholars in European, Asian and Pre-Columbian art. The book will appeal to general readers with an interest in craft and the history of objects as well as to historians interested in a global history of the early modern period and its patterns of trade.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lund University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 170mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 998g
• ISBN-13: 9780719090608
• ISBN-10: 0719090601
• Artikelnr.: 41641624

Autorenporträt

Christy Anderson is Associate Professor of the History of Art at the University of Toronto Anne Dunlop is Associate Professor of Art History at Tulane University in New Orleans Pamela H. Smith is Seth Low Professor of History, Columbia University in the City of New York

Inhaltsangabe

Part I:Matter 1. The matter of the medium: some tools for an art
theoretical interpretation of materials
Ann
Sophie Lehmann 2. The matter of ideas in the working of metals in early modern Europe
Pamela H. Smith 3. On the origins of European painting materials, real and imagined
Anne Dunlop 4. Gold coins and gold leaf in early Italian paintings
Irma Passeri Part II: Practices 5. The 'Genealogy of Jean le Blanc': accounting for the materiality of the medieval Eucharist
Aden Kumler 6. Lead white's mysteries
Spike Bucklow 7. Material distinctions: plaster, terracotta and wax in the Renaissance artist's workshop
Eckart Marchand 8. Rocks and reverence: Inka and Spanish perceptions of stonework in the early modern Andes
Carolyn Dean Part III: Cultural logics 9. Precious stones, material beings: performative materiality in fifteenth
century northern art
Brigitte Buettner 10. Carving life: the meaning of wood in early modern European sculpture
Christina Neilson 11. Arti povere, 1300
1650
Michael Cole 12. Polish stone, Venetian glass, and red Hungarian marble: the materials of a Renaissance chapel in Jagiellonian Poland
Katie Jakobiec 13. Reveal or conceal: chopines and the display of material wealth in early modern Valencia and Venice
Elizabeth Semmelhack 14. Entanglements of body, text and stone: the crafting and connoisseurship of inkstones in eighteenth
century China
Dorothy Ko Index