Art & alchemy / edited by Jacob Wamberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wamberg, Jacob.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alchemy in art.

Physical Description:

297 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Art and alchemy

Place of Publication:

Copenhagen : Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2006.

Contents:

Preface / - - Introduction / Jan Backlund ; Jacob Wamberg - - Matter/ 1. The philosophical nature of early western alchemy: the formative period c.1150-1350 / Askel Hanning - - 2. A stone and yet not a stone: alchemical themes in north Italian quattrocento landscape imagery / Jacob Wamberg - - 3. The material ethereal: photography and the alchemical ancestor/ Laurie Dahlberg - - Gender / 4. Fluctuating identities: gender reversals in alchemical imagery / M.E. Warlick - - 5. Artists, alchemists and mannerists in courtly Prague / Sally Metzler - - 6. Guilt or gold: alchemy and prostitution in Nineteenth-century Paris / Elizabeth K. Menon - - 7. The Paracelsian magus in German art: Joseph Beuys and Rebecca Horn / Urszula Szulakowska - - Collections / - - 8. Alchemy in the ampiththeatre: some considerations of the alchemical content of the engravings of Heinrich Khunrath's Amphitheare of Eternal Wisdom (1609) / Peter Forshaw - - 9. Alchemy and its images in the Eddleman and Fisher Collections at the Chemical Heritage Foundation / Lloyd DeWitt ; Lawrence M. Principe - - 10. Convention and change in Seventeenth-century depictions of alchemists / Jane Russel Corbett - - Notes on contributors / - - Index /

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

8763502674

OCLC:

69733887

Publisher Number:

99937352257