Drawing and the senses : an early modern history /

Drawing and the senses : an early modern history /

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Author / Creator:	Fowler, Caroline O., author.
Imprint:	Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2016]
Description:	178 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Harvey Miller Studies in Baroque Art Harvey Miller studies in Baroque art.
Subject:	Drawing, European -- 17th century. Drawing, Baroque. Drawing, Baroque. Drawing, European.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11037911

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ISBN:	9781909400399 1909400394
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-175) and index.
Summary:	A study of drawing and philosophy in artistic practice, important not only for art history but also for literature studies, intellectual history, religious history, history of the book,and history of science. 00Leon Battista Alberti wrote in 'De pictura' (1435) that painting is divine because, ?as they say of friendship, a painting lets the absent be present.? Absence and Presence in Early-Modern Drawing Pedagogy examines this relationship between absent and present objects and subjects in early-modern artistic pedagogy. This book studies the intersections among artistic treatises, natural philosophy and theology from 1400-1700, arguing that drawing pedagogy sought to teach the painting of histories that stimulated in the viewer the sensation of being present before the historical moment, the person, the still life. The manifestation of presence remained not only in the sensation of sight but also in all the sensory perceptions of touch, taste, smell and the sixth sense of sensing, the experience of existence. This book demonstrates the pedagogical means by which artists sought to teach the simulation of presence (and the sensorial perception of absence).

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Summary:	Jusepe Ribera (1591-1652), Guercino (1591-1666), Stefano della Bella (1610-1664), Abraham Bloemaert (1566-1651), and Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) all created printed drawing lessons dedicated to the practice and theory of drawing. These artists composed wordless compositions on a page of eyes, ears, hands, mouths and noses, configurations that were ostensibly meant to teach the practice of drawing. Yet as this book argues, these were not only pedagogical treatises on practice but also theoretical works on draftsmanship made by the most influential European draftsmen. This book is the first theoretical consideration of these major works. Reading these treatises in the context of an early modern intellectual history of the senses, this book examines how artists visually theorized the process of producing knowledge through making lines on a page. Beginning with the pedagogical treatises of Albrecht Durer and progressing through the pedagogical writings, drawings, and printed drawing books of early-modern draftsmen, this book traces a history of the senses and drawing, demonstrating how shifting concepts of the body, divinity and god changed the processes by which artists conceived of drawing the world, themselves and others.
Physical Description:	178 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-175) and index.
ISBN:	9781909400399 1909400394