The Body of the Artisan
Subtitle: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: June 25, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780226763996
Subjects: Science: General Issues; The Arts: General Issues; Science; Art; History - Renaissance; Science / History; General; 16th century; 17th century; Art and science; History
First sentence: In seeking out an artisanal worldview, we can look to the objects artisans fashioned, to the texts they wrote, and, as we saw in the case of Messerschmidt, to literate intermediaries who put their actions into a form both comprehensible and accessible to a wider audience.