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In: The Matter of Mimesis
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The Matter of Mimesis

Studies of Mimesis and Materials in Nature, Art, and Science

Series:  Studies in Art & Materiality, Volume: 7
Cover The Matter of Mimesis
E-Book ISBN:
9789004515413
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Print Publication Date:
01 Mar 2023
  • Subjects
    • Art History
      • Art History
      • Art Theory
    • History
      • Art History
Front Matter
Preliminary Material
Copyright page
Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Part I Substitution
Introduction
Chapter 1 Counterfeiting Materials, Imitating Nature
Chapter 2 Looking into Renaissance Wood Intarsia
Chapter 3 Firing Porphyry in the Italian Renaissance Kiln
Part II Added-Value
Introduction
Chapter 4 More (or Less) Than Meets the Eye? Torcs of the European Iron Age
Chapter 5 Nomadic Silver: Refinement, Transaction, Transformation
Chapter 6 Restoring, Patinating, Copying, Faking Material Authenticity
Part III Materialising the Impossible
Introduction
Chapter 7 Fictitiousness in Non-Polychrome Renaissance Sculpture
Chapter 8 The Fleshiness of Bronze
Chapter 9 Anatomical Preparations and Mimetic Expertise
Chapter 10 The Fleshiness of Wax
Part IV Preservation
Introduction
Chapter 11 Scales, Skins, and Carapaces in Antwerp Collections
Chapter 12 ‘Some Slight Eruptive Disease’: Victorian Verisimilitude in Photography and Plastercasting
Chapter 13 Time and Its Teeth: On Art, Survival and Material
Part V Making Material Knowledge
Introduction
Chapter 14 Fake Specimens in the Renaissance
Chapter 15 Fertile Stones
Chapter 16 Embodied Making
Part VI Mimesis Beyond ‘Matter’?
Introduction
Chapter 17 Material as Subtext in Ephemeral Art
Chapter 18 “Mock Observations” of Galaxies
Looking Back, Crafting Futures
Chapter 19 Afterword
Back Matter
Index

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