General Information

Author/Creator

Wood, Christopher S.

Language

English.

Published

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Physical Description

xi, 386 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Contents/Summary

Summary

"Wood shows that over the course of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, emerging replication technologies - such as woodcut, copper engraving, and movable type - altered the relationship between artifacts and time. Mechanization highlighted the dependence of all transmission processes on the artifice, materials, and individual authorship necessary to create an object, calling into question the replica's ability to represent a history that was not its own. Meanwhile, print catalyzed the new discipline of archaeological scholarship, which began to draw sharp distinctions between true and false claims about the past. Ultimately, as forged copies lost their value as historical evidence, they found a new identity as the deliberately fictional construct we have come to understand as the work of art."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Subject

Art > Germany > Historiography.

Archaeology > Germany > History.

Historiography > Germany > History.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Christopher S. Wood.

Content

1. Credulity -- 2. Reference by Artifact -- 3. Germany and "Renaissance" -- 4. Forgery -- 5. Replica -- 6. Fiction -- 7. Re-enactment.

ISBN

9780226905976

0226905977

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	709.43/09024 WOO		Reference	-

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