TY - BOOK
T1 - Ingenuity in the Making
T2 - Matter and Technique in Early Modern Europe
A2 - Oosterhoff, Richard J.
A2 - Marcaida, José Ramón
A2 - Marr, Alexander
PY - 2021/11/9
Y1 - 2021/11/9
N2 - Ingenuity in the Making explores the myriad ways in which ingenuity shaped the experience and conceptualization of materials and their manipulation in early modern Europe. Contributions range widely across the arts and sciences, examining objects and texts, professions and performances, concepts and practices. The book considers subjects such as spirited matter, the conceits of nature, and crafty devices, investigating the ways in which ingenuity acted in and upon the material world through skill and technique. Contributors ask how ingenuity informed the “maker’s knowledge” tradition, where the perilous borderline between the genius of invention and disingenuous fraud was drawn, charting the ambitions of material ingenuity in a rapidly globalizing world.
AB - Ingenuity in the Making explores the myriad ways in which ingenuity shaped the experience and conceptualization of materials and their manipulation in early modern Europe. Contributions range widely across the arts and sciences, examining objects and texts, professions and performances, concepts and practices. The book considers subjects such as spirited matter, the conceits of nature, and crafty devices, investigating the ways in which ingenuity acted in and upon the material world through skill and technique. Contributors ask how ingenuity informed the “maker’s knowledge” tradition, where the perilous borderline between the genius of invention and disingenuous fraud was drawn, charting the ambitions of material ingenuity in a rapidly globalizing world.
UR - https://upittpress.org/books/9780822946885/
U2 - 10.2307/j.ctv22jnv81
DO - 10.2307/j.ctv22jnv81
M3 - Anthology
SN - 9780822946885
BT - Ingenuity in the Making
PB - University of Pittsburgh Press
ER -