The Artist as Reader: On Education and Non-Education of Early Modern Artists
Title | The Artist as Reader: On Education and Non-Education of Early Modern Artists PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 561 |
Release | 2012-12-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004242244 |
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
Title | Early Modern Print Media and the Art of Observation PDF eBook |
Author | Stephanie A. Leitch |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 764 |
Release | 2024-04-04 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1009444514 |
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
Title | Early Modern Color Worlds PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 315 |
Release | 2016-09-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004316604 |
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
Title | Gateways to the Book PDF eBook |
Author | Gitta Bertram |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 635 |
Release | 2021-08-24 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9004464522 |
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
Title | Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo’s Trattato dell’Arte della Pittura: Color, Perspective and Anatomy PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Tramelli |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 265 |
Release | 2016-11-07 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9004330267 |
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
Title | The Taste of Art PDF eBook |
Author | Silvia Bottinelli |
Publisher | University of Arkansas Press |
Total Pages | 417 |
Release | 2017-06-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1682260259 |
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
Title | Translating Early Modern Science PDF eBook |
Author | Sietske Fransen |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 362 |
Release | 2017-09-25 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 900434926X |
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.