Interactive and Sculptural Printmaking in the Renaissance (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 270) - Hardcover

Karr Schmidt, Suzanne

 
9789004340138: Interactive and Sculptural Printmaking in the Renaissance (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 270)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9004340130 ISBN 13: 9789004340138
Publisher: Brill, 2017

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Suzanne Karr Schmidt, Ph.D. (2006), Yale University, is the Newberry Library's George Amos Poole III Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts. Her publications include Altered and Adorned: Using Renaissance Prints in Daily Life (Yale University Press/Art Institute of Chicago, 2011).

From the Back Cover

Suzanne Karr Schmidt's Interactive and Sculptural Printmaking in the Renaissance tells the story of a hands-on genre of prints: how innovative paperengineering redefined the relationship of early modern viewers to art,humanism, and science.
Interactive and sculptural prints pervaded the European readingmarket of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Single sheets andbook illustrations featured movable flaps and dials, and functioned askits to build three-dimensional scientific instruments. These hybridconstructions--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, interactingvisually with desires, social critique, and knowledge itself.

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Publisher
Brill
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9004340130
ISBN 13 
9789004340138
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
468