The Body of the Artisan
Subtitle: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: October 15, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780226764238
Subjects: Arts & crafts design; European history: c 500 to c 1500; History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600; c 1000 CE to c 1500; Science; Science/Mathematics; History; History - Renaissance; Science / History; History - Medieval; 16th century; 17th century; Art and science; Europe
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.