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The Art of Paper - From the Holy Land to the Americas (Hardcover)
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The Art of Paper - From the Holy Land to the Americas (Hardcover)
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The untold story of how paper revolutionized art making during the
Renaissance, exploring how it shaped broader concepts of
authorship, memory, and the transmission of ideas over the course
of three centuries In the late medieval and Renaissance period,
paper transformed society-not only through its role in the
invention of print but also in the way it influenced artistic
production. The Art of Paper tells the history of this medium in
the context of the artist's workshop from the thirteenth century,
when it was imported to Europe from Africa, to the sixteenth
century, when European paper was exported to the colonies of New
Spain. In this pathbreaking work, Caroline Fowler approaches the
topic culturally rather than technically, deftly exploring the way
paper shaped concepts of authorship, preservation, and the
transmission of ideas during this period. This book both tells a
transcultural history of paper from the Cairo Genizah to the
Mesoamerican manuscript and examines how paper became
"Europeanized" through the various mechanisms of the watermark,
colonization, and the philosophy of John Locke. Ultimately, Fowler
demonstrates how paper-as refuse and rags transformed into white
surface-informed the works for which it was used, as well as
artists' thinking more broadly, across the early modern world.
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