The agency of things in Medieval and early modern art : materials, power and manipulation

The agency of things in Medieval and early modern art : materials, power and manipulation - 1 online resource (xviii, 201 pages) : illustrations - Routledge research in art history . - Routledge research in art history. .

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Art history empowering medieval and early modern things / The power of nature and the agency of art : the unicorn cup of Jan Vermeyen / Late medieval enclosed gardens of the Low Countries : mixed media, remnant art, Récyclage and gender in the Low Countries (sixteenth century onwards) / Knighted by the Apostle himself : political fabrication and chivalric artefact in Compostela, 1332 / Agency and miraculous images / Agency, beauty, and the late medieval sculptural encounter / Dispersal, exchange and the culture of things in fifteenth-century Italy / Michelangelo, Tommaso de' Cavalieri and the agency of the gift-drawing / Distributing Dürer in the Netherlands : gifts, prints, and the mediation of fame in the early sixteenth century / The early modern Bible between material book and immaterial word / Diagnostic performance and diagrammatic manipulation in the physician's folding almanacs / Surgical saws and cutting-edge agency / The boots of Saint Hedwig : thoughts on the limits of the agency of things / Grażyna Jurkowlaniec, Ika Matyjaszkiewicz and Zuzanna Sarnecka -- Andrew Morrall -- Barbara Baert, Hannah Iterbeke, Lieve Watteuw -- Rosa M. Rodríguez Porto -- Robert Maniura -- Peter Dent -- Leah R. Clark -- Alexander Lee -- Jaya Remond -- Wim François -- Karen Eileen Overbey, Jennifer Borland -- Jack Hartnell -- Jacqueline E. Jung.

"This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in anthropology and archaeology, it is an innovative approach for art historical investigations. Each contributor takes as a point of departure active things: objects that were collected, exchanged, held in hand, carried on a body, assembled, cared for or pawned. Through a series of case studies set in various geographic locations, this volume examines a rich variety of systems throughout Europe and beyond."--Publisher description

9781351681490 1315166941 1351681494


Material culture--Social aspects--History.
Material culture--History.--Europe
Art and society.
Art, Medieval.
Art and anthropology.
Civilization, Medieval.
Art criticism.


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N72.S6 / A34 2018eb

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