| Biog of Object Contributor(s): Olson, Roberta J. M. (Editor), Reilly, Patricia L. (Editor), Shepherd, Rupert (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1405139552 ISBN-13: 9781405139557 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell OUR PRICE: $40.38 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2006 Annotation: The famous call, made nineteen years ago by Appadurai and Kopytoff, that students of material culture should study the 'social life' of things has, until now, had a limited effect upon students of the Italian Renaissance. The essays in this book - part of the recent burgeoning interest in Italian Renaissance material culture - rise to Appadurai and Kopytoff's challenge, examining the 'lives' led by objects in late medieval and Renaissance Italy: their creations, lives and subsequent after-lives. Situating objects and their biographies in their cultural, social and economic contexts, the contributors discuss the 'social lives' of a range of objects in late-medieval and Renaissance Italy: maiolica, sculpture, artists' autobiographies, plate for the table, "cassoni," glassware, prostitutes' jewellery, miraculous painted images, choir-screens, chapels, and antiquities. An introductory essay discusses the forms of evidence at the disposal of students of material culture and their relationship to the objects whose lives they seem to illuminate. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | European - Social Science | Customs & Traditions - History | Europe - Italy |
| Dewey: 306.460 |
| Series: Renaissance Studies Special Issues |
| Physical Information: 0.36" H x 7.18" W x 9.06" (0.53 lbs) 156 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Italy |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Material culture is not static: objects are created, used and re-used, sometimes for centuries, and their lives interact with those of the people who made and used them. The essays in this book discuss the 'social lives' of objects in late-medieval and renaissance Italy, ranging from maiolica, through sculpture and prostitutes' jewellery, to miraculous painted images.
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