Spontaneous objects : a natural history of art and its others / Rebecca Zorach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zorach Rebecca, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature (Aesthetics).

Nature in art.

Art--History.

Art.

art history.

Art--Philosophy--History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2026.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In the late medieval and early modern periods, European artists, theorists, and natural philosophers imagined Nature not simply as a force of reproduction but as an artist in its own right--a creative power capable of generating images, artifacts, and objects of beauty.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Designs of Nature

2 Nature as Maker, Image as Monster

3 Figures, Seeds, and Insect Eggs

4 Shells, Spirals, and Similitudes

5 " Those Which Have Undergone No Such Alteration"

6 "An Astonishing Visibility"

7 Signs on the Shore

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed March 3, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version : Zorach Rebecca. Spontaneous objects.

ISBN:

9780271101637

0271101636

9780271101644

0271101644

OCLC:

1563979387

Publisher Number:

CIPO000326458

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license