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Ad Vivum?: Visual Materials and the Vocabulary of Life-Likeness in Europe Before 1800
Contributor(s): Balfe (Editor), Woodall (Editor), Zittel (Editor)

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 ISBN: 9004329943     ISBN-13: 9789004329942
Publisher: Brill
OUR PRICE: $195.70  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Art | History - General
- Art | European
- History | Europe - Renaissance
Series: Intersections
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" L (1.85 lbs) 380 pages
Features: Illustrated
 
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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, Jos Beltr n, 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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