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As a historian of European material culture and design, it is refreshing to embark on a volume in which “art history” encompasses unapologetically anything from furniture and ceramics to ivory boxes and illustrated books, and where the meaning and materiality of objects are seen as a continuum rather than in opposition.
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Bruno Latour, “The Berlin Key or How to Do Words with Things,” in Matter, Materiality and Modern Culture, ed. Paul M. Graves Brown (London: Routledge, 2000), 10–21; Carl Knappett, Thinking through Material Culture: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005); Daniel Miller, Material Cultures: Why Some Things Matter (London: UCL Press, 1997).
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Bill Brown, A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003).
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Leora Auslander, “Beyond Words,” American Historical Review 110, no. 4 (2005): 1017.
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Sara Pennell, “Mundane Materiality, or, Should Small Things Still Be Forgotten? Material culture, Micro-histories and the Problem of Scale,” in History and Material Culture: A Student’s Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources, ed. Karen Harvey (London: Routledge, 2009), 173–91.
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Auslander, “Beyond Words,” 1015–45. For the concept of agency, see also Alfred Gell, Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998).
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Martin W. Lewis and Karen E. Wigen, The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), 7.
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Fernand Braudel, La Méditerranée et le Monde Méditerranéen à l’Epoque de Philippe II (Paris: Armand Colin, 1949); George Kubler, The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962); Georges Didi-Huberman, “The Surviving Image: Aby Warburg and Tylorian Anthropology,” Oxford Art Journal 25, no. 1 (2002): 59–70.
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Marta Ajmar, “The Renaissance in Material Culture. Material Mimesis as Force and Evidence of Globalization,” in The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Globalization, ed. Tamar Hodos (London: Routledge, 2016), 669–86.
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Giorgio Vasari, Le vite de’ più eccellenti pittori, scultori e architettori, vol. 5, ed. Paola Barocchi et al. (Florence: Giunti, 1966), 465.
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Marta, Ajmar, “The Renaissance in Material Culture,” 684. This approach is fully developed in my forthcoming book, Material Mimesis: Local and Global Connections in the Arts of the Italian Renaissance.
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Ajmar, M. (2018). Looking INTO the Transcultural Object. In: Grasskamp, A., Juneja, M. (eds) EurAsian Matters. Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75641-7_11
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