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Item Number: 128813
Title: Matters of Weight : Force, Gravity, and Aesthetics in the Early Modern Period
Author: Kim, David Young (ed)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9783942810234
Description: Berlin: Imorde, 2014. 24cm., hardcover, 152pp., 38 illus. Papers from a symposium held at Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, 11 June 2012. English-German texts. Summary: To speak of weight is to acknowledge artistic agency and ambition, the deliberate calibration of materials and support which involves risk, at times to the point of collapse. Weight ultimately deals with the »force« of works of art, their heaviness and thus their presence, a physical and metaphorical characteristic that informs our aesthetic comprehension of things in the world. The book examines the theory and exploitation of weight as an aesthetic category in works of art, 1350-1700. Drawing from the interdisciplinary expertise of specialists in the history of mechanics, painting, prints, sculpture and architecture, this volumes probes the deployment of weight as a compelling denominator in objects of study – be they scientific instruments, canvas paintings, marble sculptures or buildings.
Contents: D. Kim, Why Weight? The Heaviness of Art and Narrative Force ; M. Valleriani, Weight and Resistance ; F. Jonietz, Bartolomeo Ammanatis Lob des Lasttiers ; A. Dunlop, Carrying the Weight of Empire ; M. Kapustka, Pictorial Gravities - Objecthood, Authority, and Artistic Invention in Albrecht Dürers Veronicas ; R. Krischel, Bilder von Gewicht - Tintoretto und die Gesetze der Schwerkraft ; E. Lingo, Francesco Mochi's Balancing Act and the Prehistory of Bernini's Four Rivers Fountain.
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