The matter of art : materials, practices, cultural logics, c. 1250-1750 /

Other Authors: Dunlop, Anne, Smith, Pamela H.,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015
Series:Studies in design
Subjects:
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245 0 4 |a The matter of art :  |b materials, practices, cultural logics, c. 1250-1750 /  |c edited by Christy Anderson, Anne Dunlop and Pamela H. Smith. 
260 |a Manchester :  |b Manchester University Press,  |c 2015 
300 |a xvi, 339 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 25 cm. 
490 1 |a Studies in design 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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 ealry 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: ;laster, 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, mineral beings: performative materiality in fifteent-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 Renaisance 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 eighteent-century China / Dorothy Ko. 
650 0 |a Art and society 
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700 1 |a Smith, Pamela H., 
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