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Interactive and sculptural printmaking in the Renaissance / Suzanne Karr Schmidt.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Karr Schmidt, Suzanne, author.
Series:
Brill's studies in intellectual history ; 270.
Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; 21.
Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 0920-8607 ; Volume 270
Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History ; volume 21
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Prints, Renaissance--Themes, motives.
Prints, Renaissance.
Prints, European--17th century--Themes, motives.
Prints, European.
Interactive prints--Europe.
Interactive prints.
Art and society--Europe--History--16th century.
Art and society.
Art and society--Europe--History--17th century.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (439 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Place of Publication:
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018.
Summary:
Suzanne Karr Schmidt's Interactive and Sculptural Printmaking in the Renaissance tells the story of a hands-on genre of prints: how innovative paper engineering redefined the relationship of early modern viewers to art, humanism, and science. Interactive and sculptural prints pervaded the European reading market of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Single sheets and book illustrations featured movable flaps and dials, and functioned as kits to build three-dimensional scientific instruments. These hybrid constructions—part text, part image, and part sculpture—engaged readers; so did the polemical, satirical, and, occasionally, erotic content. By manipulating dials and flaps, or building and using the instruments, viewers learned to think through images as well as words, interacting visually with desires, social critique, and knowledge itself.
Contents:
Front Matter
Introduction
Handling Religion
Folding Triptychs
Dials and the Printed Host
Anatomies both Normal and Deformed
Bodily Shame
Indecent Exposure to the Anatomically Incorrect
Georg Hartmann as Interactive Printmaker
Instrument Printmaking before Hartmann
Hartmann as Collaborator
Conspicuous Consumption and Private Presses
Lotteries, Gaming, and the Public Reaction
Liftable Skirts and Deadly Secrets
A User’s Guide to Art?
Bibliography
Indexes.
Notes:
Based on the author's thesis (Yale University, 2006) under the title: Art. A user's guide : Interactive and sculptural printmaking in the Renaissance.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
90-04-35413-1
Publisher Number:
10.1163/9789004354135 DOI

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