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Ad vivum? - Visual Materials and the Vocabulary of Life-Likeness in Europe before 1800 (Hardcover)
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Ad vivum? - Visual Materials and the Vocabulary of Life-Likeness in Europe before 1800 (Hardcover)
Series: Intersections, 61
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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. Contributors: Thomas
Balfe, Jose Beltran, Carla Benzan, Eleanor Chan, Robert Felfe,
Mechthild Fend, Sachiko Kusukawa, Pieter Martens, Richard
Mulholland, Noa Turel, Joanna Woodall, and Daan Van Heesch.
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