Touching Objects: Intimate Experiences of Italian Fifteenth-Century Art

Randolph, Adrian W.B.

ISBN 10: 0300204787 / ISBN 13: 9780300204780

Edité par Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2014

A propos de cet article

Grey-green cloth/boards. Illus. dj with white lettering on dark green spine. 328 pp., full of beautiful illustrations. "This groundbreaking book spans the fields of art history, material culture, and gender studies in its examination of a range of objects from Italian Renaissance society. Addressing painted and sculpted portraits, marriage and betrothal gifts, and paxes, Adrian W. B. Randolph uses themes such as family and individual memory, windows, perspectival space, and touch to investigate how these items were experienced at the time, particularly by women. Rather than focusing on the social contexts of the objects, this original study deals with the objects themselves, asking how individuals lived with, looked at, and responded to complex things that at the time hovered between the nascent category of art and the everyday. Accompanied by beautiful and engaging accounts and illustrations of late-14th- and 15th-century Italian art, this compelling and thought-provoking argument makes the case for an alternate account of art and experience that challenges many conceptions about Renaissance art." Fine contents, but cover corners are bumped, and lower back corner of dj is torn (and repaired) as a result. Light rubbing to back of dj as well.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Touching Objects: Intimate Experiences of Italian Fifteenth-Century Art
• Éditeur: Yale University Press, New Haven, CT
• Date de parution: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0300204787
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780300204780
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • European Art

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Synopsis

This groundbreaking book spans the fields of art history, material culture, and gender studies in its examination of a range of objects from Italian Renaissance society.  Addressing painted and sculpted portraits, marriage and betrothal gifts, and paxes, Adrian W. B. Randolph uses themes such as family and individual memory, windows, perspectival space, and touch to investigate how these items were experienced at the time, particularly by women.  Rather than focusing on the social contexts of the objects, this original study deals with the objects themselves, asking how individuals lived with, looked at, and responded to complex things that at the time hovered between the nascent category of art and the everyday. Accompanied by beautiful and engaging accounts and illustrations of late-14th- and 15th-century Italian art, this compelling and thought-provoking argument makes the case for an alternate account of art and experience that challenges many conceptions about Renaissance art.

À propos de l?auteur

Adrian W. B. Randolph is Leon E. Williams Professor of Art History at Dartmouth College.