Suzanne Karr Schmidt's 'Interactive and Sculptural Printmaking in the Renaissance' tells the story of a hands-on genre of prints: how innovative paper engineering redefined the relationship of early modern viewers to art, humanism, and science. Interactive and sculptural prints pervaded the European reading market of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Single sheets and book illustrations featured movable flaps and dials, and functioned as kits to build three-dimensional scientific instruments. These hybrid constructions—part text, part image, and part sculpture—engaged readers; so did the polemical, satirical, and, occasionally, erotic content. By manipulating dials and flaps, or building and using the instruments, viewers learned to think through images as well as words, interacting visually with desires, social critique, and knowledge itself.
Author(s): Suzanne Karr Schmidt
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 270. Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 21
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 534
City: Leiden
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part 1. Revelatory Playthings: The Religious Origins of the Interactive Print
Chapter 1. Handling Religion
Chapter 2. Folding Triptychs
Chapter 3. Dials and the Printed Host
Part 2. Anatomy of the Reformation: Nosce Antichristum
Chapter 4. Anatomies both Normal and Deformed
Chapter 5. Bodily Shame
Chapter 6. Indecent Exposure to the Anatomically Incorrect
Part 3. Instrumentle auff Papir: Georg Hartmann of Nuremberg and the Printed Scientific Instrument Trade
Chapter 7. Georg Hartmann as Interactive Printmaker
Chapter 8. Instrument Printmaking before Hartmann
Chapter 9. Hartmann as Collaborator
Part 4. Consumption and Exploitation: The International Expansion of the Interactive Book
Chapter 10. Conspicuous Consumption and Private Presses
Chapter 11. Lotteries, Gaming, and the Public Reaction
Chapter 12. Liftable Skirts and Deadly Secrets
Afterword. A User’s Guide to Art?
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Modern Scholars
Index of Subjects
Catalogue A: European Single-Sheet Interactive Prints 1450-1700
Catalogue B: Interactive Books, 1474 - ca. 1750
Appendices:
Catalogue A: Interactive and Sculptural Single-Sheet Prints 1466–1700
Catalogue B: Interactive Books 1474 — ca. 1750
