Ad vivum? : visual materials and the vocabulary of life-likeness in Europe before 1800
The term ad vivum and its cognates al vivo, au vif, nach dem Leben and naer het leven have been applied since the thirteenth century to depictions designated as from, to or after (the) life. This book explores the issues raised by this vocabulary and related terminology with reference to visual mate...
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| 格式: | 图书 |
| 语言: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston
: Brill
, [2019]
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| 丛编: | Intersections
volume 61 |
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| 在线阅读: | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| 相关项目: | Erscheint auch als:
Ad vivum? Rezensiert in: [Rezension von: Thomas Balfe, Joanna Woodall, Claus Zittel (eds.), Ad vivum?, visual materials and the vocabulary of life-likeness in Europe before 1800] |
| 作者笔记: | edited by Thomas Balfe, Joanna Woodall, Claus Zittel |
| 总结: | The term ad vivum and its cognates al vivo, au vif, nach dem Leben and naer het leven have been applied since the thirteenth century to depictions designated as from, to or after (the) life. This book explores the issues raised by this vocabulary and related terminology with reference to visual materials produced and used in Europe before 1800, including portraiture, botanical, zoological, medical and topographical images, images of novel and newly discovered phenomena, and likenesses created through direct contact with the object being depicted. The designation ad vivum was not restricted to depictions made directly after the living model, and was often used to advertise the claim of an image to be a faithful likeness or a bearer of reliable information. Viewed as an assertion of accuracy or truth, ad vivum raises a number of fundamental questions in the area of early modern epistemology - questions about the value and prestige of visual and/or physical contiguity between image and original, about the kinds of information which were thought important and dependably transmissible in material form, and about the roles of the artist in that transmission. The recent interest of historians of early modern art in how value and meaning are produced and reproduced by visual materials which do not conform to the definition of art as unique invention, and of historians of science and of art in the visualisation of knowledge, has placed the questions surrounding ad vivum at the centre of their common concerns. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturangaben |
| 实物描述: | XVII, 359 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9789004329942 |
