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A thorough rethinking of a field deserves to take a shape that is in itself new. Interacting with Print delivers on this premise, reworking the history of print through a unique effort in authorial collaboration. The book itself is not a typical monograph-rather, it is a "multigraph," the collective work of twenty-two scholars who together have assembled an alphabetically arranged tour of key concepts for the study of print culture, from Anthologies and Binding to Publicity and Taste. Each entry builds on its term in order to resituate print and book history within a broader media ecology throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The central theme is interactivity, in three senses: people interacting with print; print interacting with the non-print media that it has long been thought, erroneously, to have displaced; and people interacting with each other through print. The resulting book will introduce new energy to the field of print studies and lead to considerable new avenues of investigation.

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A captivating historical look at the cultural and artistic significance of shells in early modern EuropeAmong nature's most artful creations, shells have long inspired the curiosity and passion of artisans, artists, collectors, and thinkers. Conchophilia delves into the intimate relationship between shells and people, offering an unprecedented account of the early modern era when the influx of exotic shells to Europe fueled their study and representation as never before. From elaborate nautilus cups and shell-encrusted grottoes to delicate miniatures, this richly illustrated book reveals how the love of shells intersected not only with the rise of natural history and global trade but also with philosophical inquiry, issues of race and gender, and the ascent of art-historical connoisseurship.Shells circulated at the nexus of commerce and intellectual pursuit, suggesting new ways of thinking about relationships between Europe and the rest of the world. The authors focus on northern Europe, where the interest and trade in shells had its greatest impact on the visual arts. They consider how shells were perceived as exotic objects, the role of shells in courtly collections, their place in still-life tableaus, and the connections between their forms and those of the human body. They examine how artists gilded, carved, etched, and inked shells to evoke the permeable boundary between art and nature. These interactions with shells shaped the ways that early modern individuals perceived their relation to the natural world, and their endeavors of art and knowledge.Spanning painting and print to architecture and the decorative arts, Conchophilia uncovers the fascinating ways that shells were circulated, depicted, collected, and valued, during a time of remarkable global change.

Shells. --- Collectors and collecting --- History --- Abraham Bloemaert. --- Adage. --- Adriaen Coorte. --- Aestheticism. --- Ambonese. --- Art history. --- Automaton. --- Balthasar van der Ast. --- Baruch Spinoza. --- Bernard Palissy. --- Chinese ceramics. --- Cittarium pica. --- Clara Peeters. --- Classical mythology. --- Cockle (bivalve). --- Collecting. --- Colonialism. --- Conchology. --- Cornelis. --- Crustacean. --- Depiction. --- Desiderius Erasmus. --- Dora Maar. --- Dutch Golden Age. --- Early modern Europe. --- Early modern period. --- Emblem book. --- Emblem. --- Engraving. --- Ephemerality. --- Erudition. --- Exoskeleton. --- Exoticism. --- George Vertue. --- Good Housekeeping. --- Govert Flinck. --- Greek mythology. --- Grotto. --- Handbook. --- Hendrik Goltzius. --- Hieronymus Bosch. --- Horseshoe crab. --- Illustration. --- Illustrator. --- Interior design. --- Jacob Cats. --- Jacques Callot. --- Jan Luyken. --- Jan Steen. --- Joachim Wtewael. --- John Lightfoot (biologist). --- John Tradescant the Younger. --- Kara Walker. --- Karel van Mander. --- Lacquer. --- Landgrave. --- Leonardo da Vinci. --- Levinus Vincent. --- Literature. --- Lucas van Leyden. --- Malacology. --- Martin Kemp (art historian). --- Michel de Montaigne. --- Mourning. --- New Thought. --- Petrarch. --- Petronella Oortman. --- Pierre Belon. --- Pieter de Hooch. --- Pinnidae. --- Pliny the Elder. --- Porcelain. --- Precious coral. --- Printmaking. --- Publication. --- Reginald Scot. --- Renaissance art. --- Rijksmuseum. --- Ruler. --- Shell money. --- Spanish Netherlands. --- Spontaneous generation. --- Statue. --- Still life. --- Suetonius. --- Superiority (short story). --- The Decoration of Houses. --- The Discoverie of Witchcraft. --- The Travels of Marco Polo. --- Treatise. --- Turbo marmoratus. --- Ulisse Aldrovandi. --- Vinegar. --- Visual culture. --- Wampum. --- Wenzel Jamnitzer. --- Whelk. --- Work of art. --- Writing. --- Young Man with a Skull.

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"A meditation on how environmental change and the passage of time transform the meaning of site-specific artIn the decades after World War II, artists and designers of the land art movement used the natural landscape to create monumental site-specific artworks. Second Site offers a powerful meditation on how environmental change and the passage of time alter and transform the meanings-and sometimes appearances-of works created to inhabit a specific place.James Nisbet offers fresh approaches to well-known artworks by Ant Farm, Rebecca Belmore, Nancy Holt, Richard Serra, and Robert Smithson. He also examines the work of less recognized artists such as Agnes Denes, Bonnie Devine, and herman de vries. Nisbet tracks the vicissitudes wrought by climate change and urban development on site-specific artworks, taking readers from the plains of Amarillo, Texas, to a field of volcanic rock in Mexico City, to abandoned quarries in Finland.Providing vital perspectives on what it means to endure in an ecologically volatile world, Second Site provokes us to rethink long-held beliefs about the permanency of site-based art, and carries implications for how we understand artistic creation and the conservation of cultural heritage"-- "In the decades following World War II, artists and designers developed the land art movement, consisting of outdoor artworks that can exist only in a specific place. Major works within this genre include Walter De Maria's Lightning Field (1977) located on an isolated high-desert plain in New Mexico; Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty (1970) in the Great Salt Lake, the concrete cylinders of Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels (1976), located in the Great Basin Desert in Utah; and other projects that nestle into environments ranging from open fields to concrete cityscapes. These works are typically depicted as they were when originally constructed. Yet their environmental contexts have transformed due to weather, agriculture, climate change, land-use policy, and more. In Second Site, James Nisbet presents the first sustained argument on how to account for the passage of time and environmental change in site-specific artworks, ranging from Richard Serra's Shift (1970)-whose initial small-farm-setting is now a growing exurb of Toronto-to Ant Farm's Cadillac Ranch (1974) and Nancy Holt's Dark Star Park (1984). Nisbet argues for an ecological reading of the artworks' environments, and coins the term "second site" to argue that manmade artworks and non-living things have their own durations but co-exist in the continuous experience of an environment. Any single photograph or experience of a site can provide only one view of an ever-changing existence. Nisbet advocates for new methods of evaluation, conservation, and depiction in order to "read" the content of these sites of time. In doing so, he uses site-specific artworks to help understand what it means for humans and their cultural production to live in an ecologically volatile world"--

Earthworks (Art) --- Earthworks (Art) --- Time and art. --- Conservation and restoration. --- Alan Sonfist. --- Annette Michelson. --- Ant Farm (group). --- Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac. --- Art criticism. --- Art history. --- Astrology. --- At Dawn. --- Atlantic slave trade. --- Bonnie Devine. --- Bruce Springsteen. --- Bruno Latour. --- Buckminster Fuller. --- Cadillac Ranch. --- Calculation. --- Camp Ipperwash. --- Chip Lord. --- Classical tradition. --- Colonialism. --- Consciousness. --- Conservation area (United Kingdom). --- Construction. --- Contemporary art. --- Creative work. --- Curator. --- Documenta. --- Documentary film. --- Donna Haraway. --- Drought. --- Earth Day. --- Ecological succession. --- Ecology. --- Ecosystem. --- Edgar Heap of Birds. --- Environmental history. --- Environmental protection. --- Environmentalism. --- Ephemerality. --- Explanatory model. --- Fine-art photography. --- Fluxus. --- French Colonial. --- Genocide of indigenous peoples. --- Gravel road. --- Great Basin Desert. --- Greek mythology. --- Helen Escobedo. --- Ian McHarg. --- Indigenous peoples. --- Ipperwash Crisis. --- Joan Jonas. --- Jon. --- Land art. --- Landscape. --- Legislation. --- Local history. --- Marcel Duchamp. --- Mathias Goeritz. --- Mel Bochner. --- Michael Heizer. --- Military exercise. --- Modernity. --- Nancy Holt. --- New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. --- North America. --- Oak Ridges Moraine. --- Obsolescence. --- Old-growth forest. --- Originality. --- Overpainting. --- Peace symbols. --- Photography. --- Poetry. --- Police action. --- Popular culture. --- Publication. --- Real estate development. --- Rebecca Belmore. --- Richard Serra. --- Robert Smithson. --- Roland Barthes. --- Romanticism. --- Sculpture. --- Secondary succession. --- Sense of Place. --- Site planning. --- Social history. --- Sovereignty. --- Spiral Jetty. --- The Image of the City. --- The Lightning Field. --- The Other Hand. --- Tilted Arc. --- Umberto Eco. --- Urbanization. --- Virginia Dwan. --- Walkway. --- Walter De Maria. --- Work of art. --- Writing.