Item Number: 131769 Title: The Matter of Art : Materials, practices, cultural logics, c.1250–1750 Author: Anderson, Christy ; Anne Dunlop ; Pamela H. Smith (eds) Price: Not Available ISBN: 9780719090608 Description: Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014. 24cm., hardcover, 339pp. illus. Contents: 1. The matter of the medium: some tools for an art-theoretical interpretation of materials - Ann-Sophie Lehmann. 2. The matter of ideas in the working of metals in early modern Europe - Pamela H. Smith . 3. On the origins of European painting materials, real and imagined - Anne Dunlop . 4. Gold coins and gold leaf in early Italian paintings VIrma Passeri . 5. The 'Genealogy of Jean le Blanc': accounting for the materiality of the medieval Eucharist - Aden Kumler . 6. Lead white's mysteries - Spike Bucklow . 7. Material distinctions: plaster, terracotta, and wax in the Renaissance artist's workshop - Eckart Marchand . 8. Rocks and reverence: Inka and Spanish perceptions of stonework in the early modern Andes - Carolyn Dean . 9. Precious stones, material beings: performative materiality in fifteenth-century northern art - Brigitte Buettner . 10. Carving life: the meaning of wood in early modern European sculpture - Christina Neilson . 11. Arti povere, 1300-1650 - Michael Cole . 12. Polish stone, Venetian glass, and red Hungarian marble: the materials of a Renaissance chapel in Jagiellonian Poland - Katie Jakobiec . 13. Reveal or conceal: chopines and the display of material wealth in early modern Valencia and Venice - Elizabeth Semmelhack . 14. Entanglements of body, text, and stone: the crafting and connoisseurship of inkstones in eighteenth-century China - Dorothy Ko.
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