Prints in Translation, 1450-1750 Image, Materiality, Space |
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| Editor:
| Karr Schmidt, Suzanne
Wouk, Edward H. |
| Series title: | Visual Culture in Early Modernity Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4724-8012-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2016 |
| Publisher: | Routledge
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $224.00 |
Book Description:
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Uniting scholars from different art-historical fields, this interdisciplinary collection elucidates the agency of prints on more traditionally valued objects, and vice-versa. Contributors explore how paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, scientific instruments, and armor exerted their own influence on prints, while prints provided artists with paper veneers, templates, and perpetual sources of adaptable images. The volume is concerned with translation and the fluid re-purposing of...
More DescriptionUniting scholars from different art-historical fields, this interdisciplinary collection elucidates the agency of prints on more traditionally valued objects, and vice-versa. Contributors explore how paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, scientific instruments, and armor exerted their own influence on prints, while prints provided artists with paper veneers, templates, and perpetual sources of adaptable images. The volume is concerned with translation and the fluid re-purposing of original designs made possible by the availability of prints.