The Agency of Things in Medieval and Early Modern Art

Name: The Agency of Things in Medieval and Early Modern Art
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Materials, Power and Manipulation

By: Grazyna Jurkowlaniec (Editor), Ika Matyjaszkiewicz (Editor), Zuzanna Sarnecka (Editor)

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Hardcover | 4 October 2017

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202 Pages

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24.6 x 17.4 x 1.91

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This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in anthropology and archaeology, it is an innovative approach for art historical investigations. Each contributor takes as a point of departure active things: objects that were collected, exchanged, held in hand, carried on a body, assembled, cared for or pawned. Through a series of case studies set in various geographic locations, this volume examines a rich variety of systems throughout Europe and beyond.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315401867, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

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"Developing, and sometimes challenging, the theory proposed by Alfred Gell in his seminal study Art and Agency (1998), this book explores the ability of 'things' to communicate and perform actions across a wide range of geographical and historical situations. Artefacts of many different types in a variety of media are explored in this fascinating series of essays, which brilliantly straddle microcosm and macrocosm. This is a lively, readable and important book."

- Deborah Howard, University of Cambridge

"Bringing together conversations in art history, anthropology, and archaeology, this book is an important contribution to the field that puts the agency of things into direct dialogue with traditional art historical concerns regarding artistic creation, patronage, reception, and materiality. This collection demonstrates that what is at stake in the intersection of matter and agency are the bounds of art history's purview and its role is in mediating the ever promiscuous relations between things and those who interject or direct these relations."

- Roland Betancourt, University of California, Irvine

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