The Artist as Reader

The Artist as Reader PDF Author: Heiko Damm
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004242236
Category : History
Languages : de
Pages : 562

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Book Description
Based on the history of knowledge, the contributions to this volume elucidate various aspects of how, in the early modern period, artists’ education, knowledge, reading and libraries were related to the ways in which they presented themselves

The Artist as Reader

The Artist as Reader PDF Author: Heiko Damm
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004242236
Category : History
Languages : de
Pages : 562

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Book Description
Based on the history of knowledge, the contributions to this volume elucidate various aspects of how, in the early modern period, artists’ education, knowledge, reading and libraries were related to the ways in which they presented themselves

The Artist as Reader: On Education and Non-Education of Early Modern Artists

The Artist as Reader: On Education and Non-Education of Early Modern Artists PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004242244
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 561

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Book Description
Based on the history of knowledge, the contributions to this volume elucidate various aspects of how, in the early modern period, artists’ education, knowledge, reading and libraries were related to the ways in which they presented themselves

Early Modern Print Media and the Art of Observation

Early Modern Print Media and the Art of Observation PDF Author: Stephanie A. Leitch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009444514
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 764

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Early modern printmakers trained observers to scan the heavens above as well as faces in their midst. Peter Apian printed the Cosmographicus Liber (1524) to teach lay astronomers their place in the cosmos, while also printing practical manuals that translated principles of spherical astronomy into useful data for weather watchers, farmers, and astrologers. Physiognomy, a genre related to cosmography, taught observers how to scrutinize profiles in order to sum up peoples' characters. Neither Albrecht Dürer nor Leonardo escaped the tenacious grasp of such widely circulating manuals called practica. Few have heard of these genres today, but the kinship of their pictorial programs suggests that printers shaped these texts for readers who privileged knowledge retrieval. Cultivated by images to become visual learners, these readers were then taught to hone their skills as observers. This book unpacks these and other visual strategies that aimed to develop both the literate eye of the reader and the sovereignty of images in the early modern world.

Early Modern Color Worlds

Early Modern Color Worlds PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004316604
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315

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Book Description
Many challenges hinder the historical study of early modern color. These essays offer a way forward through the category of ‘color worlds’—constituted by practices, concepts and objects—and examine the emergence of the languages and objects used to communicate between them.

Gateways to the Book

Gateways to the Book PDF Author: Gitta Bertram
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004464522
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 635

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Book Description
An investigation of the complex image-text relationships between frontispieces and illustrated title pages with the following texts in European books published between 1500 and 1800.

Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo’s Trattato dell’Arte della Pittura: Color, Perspective and Anatomy

Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo’s Trattato dell’Arte della Pittura: Color, Perspective and Anatomy PDF Author: Barbara Tramelli
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004330267
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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Book Description
Tramelli considers three main areas of Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo’s studies: color, perspective and anatomy, investigating the types of theoretical and practical knowledge on these subjects conveyed in the Trattato dell’Arte della Pittura and how the context of Milan at the end of the sixteenth century shaped the material gathered in Lomazzo’s books.

The Taste of Art

The Taste of Art PDF Author: Silvia Bottinelli
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1682260259
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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The Taste of Art offers a sample of scholarly essays that examine the role of food in Western contemporary art practices. The contributors are scholars from a range of disciplines, including art history, philosophy, film studies, and history. As a whole, the volume illustrates how artists engage with food as matter and process in order to explore alternative aesthetic strategies and indicate countercultural shifts in society. The collection opens by exploring the theoretical intersections of art and food, food art’s historical root in Futurism, and the ways in which food carries gendered meaning in popular film. Subsequent sections analyze the ways in which artists challenge mainstream ideas through food in a variety of scenarios. Beginning from a focus on the body and subjectivity, the authors zoom out to look at the domestic sphere, and finally the public sphere. Here are essays that study a range of artists including, among others, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Daniel Spoerri, Dieter Roth, Joseph Beuys, Al Ruppersberg, Alison Knowles, Martha Rosler, Robin Weltsch, Vicki Hodgetts, Paul McCarthy, Luciano Fabro, Carries Mae Weems, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Janine Antoni, Elżbieta Jabłońska, Liza Lou, Tom Marioni, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Michael Rakowitz, and Natalie Jeremijenko.

Translating Early Modern Science

Translating Early Modern Science PDF Author: Sietske Fransen
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900434926X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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Book Description
Translating Early Modern Science explores the essential role translators played in a time when the scientific community used Latin and vernacular European languages side-by-side. This interdisciplinary volume illustrates how translators were mediators, agents, and interpreters of scientific knowledge.

New Apelleses and New Apollos

New Apelleses and New Apollos PDF Author: Diletta Gamberini
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110743663
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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This book breaks new ground by illuminating the key role of verse-writing as a cultural strategy on the part of Italian Renaissance artists. It does so by undertaking a wide-ranging study of poems by painters, sculptors, architects, and goldsmiths who were active in Florence under Cosimo I and Francesco I de’ Medici – a milieu in which many practitioners of the visual arts appropriated the literary medium to address issues related to their primary professions. New Apelleses, and New Apollos intervenes in the burgeoning scholarly discourse on the intellectual life of artists in early modern Italy, revealing how poetry often provides fresh insights into art-theoretical debates, patronage questions, workshop cultures, issues of professional identity, and networks of personal relations.

Jerónimo Antonio Gil and the Idea of the Spanish Enlightenment

Jerónimo Antonio Gil and the Idea of the Spanish Enlightenment PDF Author: Kelly Donahue-Wallace
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826357350
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Examining the career of a largely unstudied eighteenth-century engraver, this book establishes Jerónimo Antonio Gil, a man immersed within the complicated culture and politics of the Spanish empire, as a major figure in the history of both Spanish and Mexican art. Donahue-Wallace examines Gil as an artist, tracing his education, entry into professional life, appointment to the Mexico City mint, and foundation of the Royal Academy of the Three Noble Arts of San Carlos. She analyzes the archival and visual materials he left behind and, most importantly, she considers the ideas, philosophies, and principles of his era, those who espoused them, and how Gil responded to them. Although frustrated by resistance from the faculty and colleagues he brought to his academy, Gil would leave a lasting influence on the Mexican art scene as local artists continued to benefit from his legacy at the Mexican academy.