The art of paper : from the Holy Land to the Americas / Caroline Fowler.
2019
TS1092 .F69 2019 (Mapit)
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Title
The art of paper : from the Holy Land to the Americas / Caroline Fowler.
Author
Fowler, Caroline O., author.
ISBN
9780300246025 (hardcover)
0300246021 (hardcover)
0300246021 (hardcover)
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
Language
English
Description
ix, 174 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, map ; 24 cm
Call Number
TS1092 .F69 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
676.09
Summary
"The untold story of how paper revolutionized art making during the Renaissance, exploring how it shaped broader concepts of authorship, memory, and the transmission of ideas over the course of three centuries. In the late medieval and Renaissance period, paper transformed society-not only through its role in the invention of print but also in the way it influenced artistic production. The Art of Paper tells the history of this medium in the context of the artist's workshop from the thirteenth century, when it was imported to Europe from Africa, to the sixteenth century, when European paper was exported to the colonies of New Spain. In this pathbreaking work, Caroline Fowler approaches the topic culturally rather than technically, deftly exploring the way paper shaped concepts of authorship, preservation, and the transmission of ideas during this period. This book both tells a transcultural history of paper from the Cairo Genizah to the Mesoamerican manuscript and examines how paper became "Europeanized" through the various mechanisms of the watermark, colonization, and the philosophy of John Locke. Ultimately, Fowler demonstrates how paper-as refuse and rags transformed into white surface-informed the works for which it was used, as well as artists' thinking more broadly, across the early modern world"--Publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: a new kind of route
Tracking paper routes across the early modern world
Forgetting paper's origins
The model of loss in late-medieval drawing
Albrecht Dürer and the geography of paper
Paper: modernizing the ancient's wax tablet
Conclusion: Rembrandt and a new paper world.
Tracking paper routes across the early modern world
Forgetting paper's origins
The model of loss in late-medieval drawing
Albrecht Dürer and the geography of paper
Paper: modernizing the ancient's wax tablet
Conclusion: Rembrandt and a new paper world.