{"product_id":"ad-vivum-thomas-balfe-9789004329942","title":"AD Vivum?: Visual Materials and the Vocabulary of Life-Likeness in Europe Before 1800","description":"The term \u003ci\u003ead vivum\u003c\/i\u003e and its cognates \u003ci\u003eal vivo\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eau vif\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003enach dem Leben\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003enaer het leven\u003c\/i\u003e have been applied since the thirteenth century to depictions designated as from, to or after (the) life. This book explores the issues raised by this vocabulary and related terminology with reference to visual materials produced and used in Europe before 1800, including portraiture, botanical, zoological, medical and topographical images, images of novel and newly discovered phenomena, and likenesses created through direct contact with the object being depicted. The designation \u003ci\u003ead vivum\u003c\/i\u003e was not restricted to depictions made directly after the living model, and was often used to advertise the claim of an image to be a faithful likeness or a bearer of reliable information. Viewed as an assertion of accuracy or truth, \u003ci\u003ead vivum\u003c\/i\u003e raises a number of fundamental questions in the area of early modern epistemology - questions about the value and prestige of visual and\/or physical contiguity between image and original, about the kinds of information which were thought important and dependably transmissible in material form, and about the roles of the artist in that transmission. The recent interest of historians of early modern art in how value and meaning are produced and reproduced by visual materials which do not conform to the definition of art as unique invention, and of historians of science and of art in the visualisation of knowledge, has placed the questions surrounding \u003ci\u003ead vivum\u003c\/i\u003e at the centre of their common concerns.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Contributors: Thomas Balfe, José Beltrán, Carla Benzan, Eleanor Chan, Robert Felfe, Mechthild Fend, Sachiko Kusukawa, Pieter Martens, Richard Mulholland, Noa Turel, Joanna Woodall, and Daan Van Heesch.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas Balfe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9004329943\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789004329942\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/27\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 362\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 0.90d","brand":"Thomas Balfe","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48066403860735,"sku":"9789004329942","price":216.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c2876c73-c672-4db0-b88f-2cdc3bb59cd0.jpg?v=1768678305","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ad-vivum-thomas-balfe-9789004329942","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}