Interactive and sculptural printmaking in the Renaissance / / Suzanne Karr Schmidt.

• Superior document: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume 270
• VerfasserIn: Schmidt, Suzanne Kathleen Karr,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018.; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; 270.; Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; 21.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (439 pages) :; illustrations (some color)
• Notes: Based on the author's thesis (Yale University, 2006) under the title: Art. A user's guide : Interactive and sculptural printmaking in the Renaissance.

Suzanne Karr Schmidt's Interactive and Sculptural Printmaking in the Renaissance tells the story of a hands-on genre of prints: how innovative paper engineering redefined the relationship of early modern viewers to art, humanism, and science. Interactive and sculptural prints pervaded the European reading market of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Single sheets and book illustrations featured movable flaps and dials, and functioned as kits to build three-dimensional scientific instruments. These hybrid constructions—part text, part image, and part sculpture—engaged readers; so did the polemical, satirical, and, occasionally, erotic content. By manipulating dials and flaps, or building and using the instruments, viewers learned to think through images as well as words, interacting visually with desires, social critique, and knowledge itself.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Introduction -- Handling Religion -- Folding Triptychs -- Dials and the Printed Host -- Anatomies both Normal and Deformed -- Bodily Shame -- Indecent Exposure to the Anatomically Incorrect -- Georg Hartmann as Interactive Printmaker -- Instrument Printmaking before Hartmann -- Hartmann as Collaborator -- Conspicuous Consumption and Private Presses -- Lotteries, Gaming, and the Public Reaction -- Liftable Skirts and Deadly Secrets -- A User’s Guide to Art? -- Bibliography -- Indexes.