The lure of the object /
Melville, Stephen W.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
Williamstown, Mass. : Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute ; London : Yale University Press [distributor],
c2005.
Based on the proceedings of a conference held Apr. 30-May 1, 2004 at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass.
Includes bibliographical references.
The lure of Leonardo / John Brewer -- Dan Graham Inc. and the fetish of self-property / Emily Apter -- Quiccheberg and the copious object : Wenzel Jamnitzer's silver writing box / Mark A. Meadow -- Naturalezas mexicanas : objects as cultural signifiers in Mexican art, c. 1760-1875 / Edward J. Sullivan -- Material as language in contemporary art / Christian Scheidemann -- Art in the age of visual culture : France in the 1930s? / Martha Ward -- Photography's expanded field / George Baker -- Some object histories and the materiality of the sculptural object / Malcolm Baker -- Encountering the object / Karen Lang -- The object as subject / Ewa Lajer-Burcharth -- The surrealist situation of the photographed object / Margaret Iversen -- Eros and the readymade / Helen Molesworth -- Responding to allure / Martha Buskirk -- The lure of the object / Marcia Pointon.
Masterpiece, Artistic