Upcoming Release: The Making of Technique in the Arts
December 8 2023
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Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The publisher Brepols is due to release this very interesting sounding book before the end of the year. The Making of Technique in the Arts Theories and Practice from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century is a collection of essays edited by Sven Dupré and Marieke Hendriksen, focusing on the emergence of the term 'technique'.
Here is the contents of the book, which may be of interest:
2. The Body and Daily Life as Metaphor and Analogy in Technical Language in the Works of Leonardo da Vinci, Vannoccio Biringuccio and Benvenuto Cellini - Andrea Bernardoni
3. Neudörffer's Notebook: Recipes and the Rendering of Calligraphic Technique between Manuscript and Print in Sixteenth-Century Germany - Hannah Murphy
4. Between arte and ingenio. Approaches to Technique in Early Modern Spanish painting - José Ramón Marcaida
5. ‘An old and calm woman, blind and mute’: Finding Words to Describe Technique in Dutch Seventeenth-Century Art Literature - Marije Osnabrugge
6. ‘Have a great care of the shadows’. Perspectives on Carefulness in Historical Recipes for the Restoration of Oil Paintings. - Maartje Stols-Witlox
7. Architecture and Technical Virtuosity in Eighteenth Century France - Valérie Nègre
8. The Debate about Technique in the Kunstwissenschaft around 1900 - Maria Teresa Costa
9. Somatic Language in Artistic Work Practices. An Ethnographic Perspective on Bodies, Materials, Practical Knowledge and Technique in Contemporary Art - Christiane Schürkmann
