The Material Renaissance by Michelle O'malley
Despite the recent interests of economic and art historians in the workings of the market, we still know remarkably little about the everyday context for the exchange of objects and the meaning of demand in the lives of individuals in the Renaissance. Nor do we have much sense of the relationship between the creation and purchase of works of art and the production, buying and selling of other types of objects in Italy during this period. The material Renaissance addresses these issues of economic and social life. It develops the analysis of demand, supply and exchange first proposed by Richard Goldthwaite in his ground-breaking Wealth and the demand for art in Renaissance Italy, and expands our understanding of the particularities of exchange in this consumer-led period. Considering food, clothing and every-day furnishings, as well as books, goldsmiths' work, altarpieces and other luxury goods, the book draws on contemporary archival material to explore pricing, to investigate production from the point of view of demand, and to look at networks of exchange that relied not only on money but also on credit, payment in kind and gift giving. The material Renaissance establishes the dynamic social character of exchange. It demonstrates that the cost of goods, including the price of the most basic items, was largely contingent upon on the relationship between buyer and seller, shows that communities actively sought new goods and novel means of production long before Colbert encouraged such industrial enterprise in France and reveals the wide ownership of objects, even among the economically disadvantaged.-
The culture of fashion
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The culture of craft
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The autobiography of a nation
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The Study of Dress History
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Arts and Crafts objects
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Quotations on Design and Material Culture
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Italian graphic design
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The Birth of Modern London
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Victorian Furniture
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The Edwardian House
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The British Country House in the Eighteenth Century
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Graphic Design - Reproduction & Representation
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Chinoiserie
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Turning revolt into style
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Material Relations
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Windows for the World
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European Fashion
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Out of the Ivory Tower
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Enid Marx’s material modern
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Stiliagi and Soviet masculinities, 1945–2010
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Critical histories of the Arts and Crafts movement
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Confessions of monuments
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Celebrating the city
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Becoming couture
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'The industrialized designer'
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Art versus Industry?
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Making Sense of the Bayeux Tapestry
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Anna of Denmark
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Critical Design in Japan
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Ideal Homes, 1918-39
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Building Reputations
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Comradely Objects
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Political and Sartorial Styles
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Crafting Identities
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Hot Metal
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Crafting Design in Italy
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Surface Tensions
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Representations of British Motoring
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Bringing Modernity Home
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Precarious objects
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Threads of globalization
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At home with the poor
Michelle O’Malley is Director of Research in the School of Humanities at the University of Sussex. Evelyn Welch is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780719081255 |
| ISBN 10 | 0719081254 |
| Title | The Material Renaissance |
| Author | Michelle O'malley |
| Series | Studies In Design And Material Culture |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Year published | 2010-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 328 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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