Objects and Organisms: Vivification - Reification - Transformation

Published by De Gruyter 2023

Objects and Organisms

Vivification - Reification - Transformation

Edited by: Ella Beaucamp , Romana Kaske and Thomas Moser

Volume 5 in the series Object Studies in Art History

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111199702

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About this book

The interrelations between objects and organisms take many forms, from the microbes known to inhabit medieval manuscripts to the biomorphic forms observable in Art Nouveau lamps, and from the androids cast in American superhero comics to the coral found on Chinese porcelain recovered from shipwrecks. The contributions to this volume investigate various interactions between inanimate and animate matter in art, literature, technology, and other areas of human perception and expression. The book highlights how certain characteristics allow objects to be understood as living organisms, and vice versa. Via a range of dynamics involving vivification and reification, objects and organisms emerge as unstable, transforming within evolving situations.

Innovative, interdisciplinary object-scientific contribution to critical ecology
From the early modern period into the 21st century

Author information

Ella Beaucamp, 2016 Master in Art History and Byzantine Art History, LMU Munich; subsequently part of research group "Pre-modern Objects. An Archaeology of Experience"; dissertation on marble decoration of Venetian palace façades of the Romanesque period, funded by Gerda Henkel Foundation and the German Study Centre Venice; lives and works in Turin

Romana Kaske, PhD LMU Munich on objects of war in German-language poetry of the Middle Ages; subsequently Academic Fellow, University of Toronto and LMU Munich; she has conducted research on trust and pamphlets in the early modern period; lives and works in Toronto and Munich

Thomas Moser, studied art history, philosophy and architecture in Munich, Paris and Vienna; 2021 doctorate at LMU Munich; fellowships and guest residencies at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2022), Warburg Institute London (2021), Course Research Group "Imaginaries of Power", University of Hamburg (2019/2020), German Forum for Art History Paris (2018); since 2020, university assistant at the Research Department of Art History, TU Vienna

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Man, Deer, and Everything In Between. Transformations of a Mesolithic Organic Object Ella Beaucamp, Romana Kaske and Thomas Moser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Framing and Containing
Organismus als Objekt. Wissenschaftliche Sammlungen und ethische Fragen an die Kunstgeschichte Ernst Seidl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Objekte und Organismen im naturkundlichen Museumsraum. Zur Verdichtung und Entfaltung von Wissen Annerose Keßler and Isabelle Schwarz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Objekte und Organismen im Recht Stefan Scheuerer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
Strategies of Vivification
“[…] his art hides his own art.” The Porcelain Flowers of the Manufacture de Vincennes Joana Mylek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
The Secret Life of Lamps. Alphonse Mucha’s ‘Nature’ and the École de Nancy’s Electric Élan Vital Thomas Moser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
Strategies of Reification
Planet Buch oder: Gehören Mikroben zum Objekt? Überlegungen zu Definition und Metaphorik von lebenden und toten Objekten Regina Jucknies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
The Incarnation of the Pearl. Gemstones and the Body in Early Modern Natural Philosophy and Treasury Art Verena Suchy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Beyond Polarization
Living Matter. Berlinde de Bruyckeres anthropomorphe Wachsskulpturen zwischen Verlebendigung und Leblosigkeit Hanna Baro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Lebendigkeit durch Klang. Die Freiberger Tulpenkanzel und die Kanzeln um 1500 Joanna Olchawa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Sea Sculpture and/as ‘Vibrant Matter’. The Material Lives of Porcelain Objects Lost and Found at Sea John White Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
Other Agents
Blurring Boundaries. Gender, Eroticism and Desire between Man and Machine in Contemporary Superhero Comics Joanna Nowotny Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
How much ‘Human’ is there in Technology? A Concrete Technical-Anthropological Investigation Kevin Liggieri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Picture Credits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235

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Languages: English, German
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: scholars in Art History, Object and Cultural Studies, Philosophy
Pages
- Main content: 236
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 59
Keywords: Object Studies; art; art theory; Literary Studies; Early Modern period; 18th century; 19th century; 21st century; animate matter; inanimate matter; museum; collection; reification; vivification; anthropocentrism; animism

eBook

Published: March 20, 2023
ISBN: 9783111199702

Hardcover

Published: March 20, 2023
ISBN: 9783110694154