The lure of the object
By: edited by Stephen Melville.
Contributors: Melville, Stephen W.; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
Series: Clark studies in the visual arts
Publisher: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; Distributed by Yale University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Williamstown, Mass; New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780931102615; 9780300103373
Subjects: Masterpiece, Artistic -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Based on the proceedings of the Clark Conference "The Lure of the Object," held Apr. 30-May 1, 2004 at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The lure of Leonardo / John Brewer; title: Dan Graham Inc. and the fetish of self-property / Emily Apter; title: Quiccheberg and the copious object : Wenzel Jamnitzer's silver writing box / Mark A. Meadow; title: Naturalezas mexicanas : objects as cultural signifiers in Mexican art, c. 1760-1875 / Edward J. Sullivan; title: Material as language in contemporary art / Christian Scheidemann; title: Art in the age of visual culture : France in the 1930s? / Martha Ward; title: Photography's expanded field / George Baker; title: Some object histories and the materiality of the sculptural object / Malcolm Baker; title: Encountering the object / Karen Lang; title: The object as subject / Ewa Lajer-Burcharth; title: The surrealist situation of the photographed object / Margaret Iversen; title: Eros and the readymade / Helen Molesworth; title: Responding to allure / Martha Buskirk; title: The lure of the object / Marcia Pointon.