Im/Materiality in Renaissance Arts
A special issue of Arts (ISSN 2076-0752).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 August 2023) | Viewed by 14229
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Renaissance art, architecture, and visual culture; temporality and the material object; transmedial images in motion; implications of sensory input beyond the visual; the phenomenology of ritual
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Between the fourteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Renaissance Florentines wrote extensively, committing their personal and business exchanges to ink on paper, even while thinking about wealth not in terms of metallic coins but rather in terms of abstracted moneys of account. In and well beyond Florence, Renaissance artists worked with gold and silver, wax and wood, sound and space to create both tangible and intangible cultural heritage. This Special Issue of Arts seeks to revisit the "material turn" in the humanities and to recouple Renaissance materiality to the immaterial. Thus we ask about the spatial, technical, ritual, and institutional framings of any material work of art and about the past voices, phantom performers, and music that enlivened plays, dances, processions, liturgies, and other events. We seek to incite more performative, active imaginings of various objects in their artworlds—books, musical instruments, tools, pigments, dye woods, lead type, copper plates, among much more—and the artists who once manipulated them, breathed on them, and performed before them.
We invite articles of 4000–10,000 words in length for this Special Issue. There is no limit on the number of images, which can be reproduced in color, but authors are responsible for obtaining permissions. For this special issue, articles that pass peer review and are published will not be subject to the 1200 CHF Article Processing Charge.
In order to coordinate with related papers submitted for presentation at the 2023 Renaissance Society of America annual conference in San Juan, please email both co-editors with a title, 300-word abstract, and brief cv BEFORE 1 MAY 2023.
Prof. Dr. Lisa Pon
Prof. Dr. Kate Van Orden
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- materiality
- intangible cultural heritage
- art
- performance
- renaissance
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