Touching Objects: Intimate Experiences of Italian Fifteenth-century Art - Rilegato

Randolph, Adrian W. B.

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ISBN 10: 0300204787 ISBN 13: 9780300204780

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2014

Riassunto

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.

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Informazioni sull'autore

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

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0300204787
• ISBN 13: 9780300204780
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 327
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile