{"product_id":"the-matter-of-art-materials-practices-cultural-logics-c1250-1750-studies-in-design-studies-in-design-and-material-culture-9780719090608","title":"The Matter of Art Materials Practices Cultural","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on research and models from anthropology, material culture and art history, this study explores topics as diverse as Inka stonework, cork platforms for shoes and the Christian Eucharist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'…shows the reader that engagement with the   particularities of medium can lead to the richest of interpretations.'\u003cbr\u003eRenaissance Quarterly\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I:Matter\u003cbr\u003e1. The matter of the medium: some tools for an art-theoretical interpretation of materials – Ann-Sophie Lehmann\u003cbr\u003e2. The matter of ideas in the working of metals in early modern Europe – Pamela H. Smith \u003cbr\u003e3. On the origins of European painting materials, real and imagined – Anne Dunlop \u003cbr\u003e4. Gold coins and gold leaf in early Italian paintings – Irma Passeri \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Practices\u003cbr\u003e5. The ‘Genealogy of Jean le Blanc’: accounting for the materiality of the medieval Eucharist – Aden Kumler \u003cbr\u003e6. Lead white’s mysteries – Spike Bucklow \u003cbr\u003e7. Material distinctions: plaster, terracotta and wax in the Renaissance artist’s workshop – Eckart Marchand \u003cbr\u003e8. Rocks and reverence: Inka and Spanish perceptions of stonework in the early modern Andes – Carolyn Dean \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart III: Cultural logics\u003cbr\u003e9. Precious stones, material beings: performative materiality in fifteenth-century northern art – Brigitte Buettner \u003cbr\u003e10. Carving life: the meaning of wood in early modern European sculpture – Christina Neilson \u003cbr\u003e11. Arti povere, 1300–1650 – Michael Cole \u003cbr\u003e12. Polish stone, Venetian glass, and red Hungarian marble: the materials of a Renaissance chapel in Jagiellonian Poland – Katie Jakobiec \u003cbr\u003e13. Reveal or conceal: chopines and the display of material wealth in early modern Valencia and Venice – Elizabeth Semmelhack \u003cbr\u003e14. Entanglements of body, text and stone: the crafting and connoisseurship of inkstones in eighteenth-century China – Dorothy Ko\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884289601879,"sku":"9780719090608","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-matter-of-art-materials-practices-cultural-logics-c1250-1750-studies-in-design-studies-in-design-and-material-culture-9780719090608","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}