The art of the poor : the aesthetic material culture of the lower classes in Europe, 1300-1600

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020 and ©2020

Subject:

Arts and the poor - Europe - History - To 1500
Arts and the poor - Europe - History - 16th century
Material culture - Europe - History - To 1500
Material culture - Europe - History - 16th century

Contributor:

Duits, Rembrandt, editor

ISBN:

9781788316750 and 1788316754

Description:

xvi, 292 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Did the poor have art? / Rembrandt Duits -- Material culture without objects: artisan artistic commissions in early renaissance Italy / Samuel Cohn -- Poverty in the paintings of Jacopo Bassano: the crisis poor and the structural poor / Tom Nichols -- The 'slipshot' nature of Carpaccio's St. Tryphon Tames the Basilisk: a painting for a poor confraternity / Thomas Schweigert -- Communal patronage of church decoration in rural Venetian Crete / Angeliki Lymberopoulou -- Next to chur we are still poor: art and the relationality of poverty in the Rhaetian Alps / Joanne W. Anderson -- Miracles in the margins: the miraculous image of Santa Maria delle Carceri in Prato / Shannon Gilmore-Kuziow -- The art of popular piety: pilgrim souvenirs from the Museum of London collection / Meriel Jeater -- Artisans and dress in Denmark 1550-1650: a preliminary exploration / Anne-Kristine Sindvald Larsen -- The art of artisan fashions: Moroni's tailor and the changing culture of clothing in sixteenth-century Italy / Paula Hohti Erichsen -- Identifying popular musical practice: instruments and performance in the iconography and archaeology of the medieval and renaissance period in Europe / Roger Blench -- An art for everyman: the aspirations of the medieval potter / Jacqui Pearce -- Italian tin-glazed ceramics: silverware for poor people? / Clarisse Evrard Ordinary objects for priceless lighting: copper-alloy candlesticks in medieval and early modern England / Anne-Clothilde Dumargne -- Burning issues: political iconography on Dutch firebacks / Lucinda Timmermans -- Visual pedagogy: the use of woodcuts in early modern Lutheran and Catholic cathechisms / Ruth Atherton -- Shakespeare's picture of 'We Three': an image for illiterates? / M.A. Katritzky

Summary:

"The history of art in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance has generally been written as a story of elites: bankers, noblemen, kings, cardinals, and popes and their artistic interests and commissions. Recent decades have seen attempts to recast the story in terms of material culture, but the focus seems to remain on the upper strata of society. In his inclusive analysis of art from 1300 to 1600, Rembrandt Duits rectifies this. Bringing together thought-provoking ideas from art historians, historians, anthropologists and museum curators, The Art of the Poor examines the role of art in lower social classes of Europe and explores how this influences our understanding of medieval and early modern society. Introducing new themes and raising innovative research questions through a series of thematically grouped short case studies, this book gives impetus to a new field on the cusp of art history, social history, urban archaeology, and historical anthropology. In doing so, this important study helps us re-assess the very concept of 'art' and its function in society"-- Provided by publisher

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

NX180.S6 A737 2020

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