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Acknowledgments

Caroline Fowler

The Art of Paper: From the Holy Land to the Americas

~I began this project when I was an NEH Postdoctoral Fellow at the Getty Research Institute, and I thank both the Getty and the National Endowment for the Humanities Foundation for their early support. I completed the manuscript at Yale University as the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, and I thank the Mellon Foundation and Tim Barringer. An...

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Caroline Fowler

PublisherYale University Press

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-19956

Acknowledgments

I began this project when I was an NEH Postdoctoral Fellow at the Getty Research Institute, and I thank both the Getty and the National Endowment for the Humanities Foundation for their early support. I completed the manuscript at Yale University as the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, and I thank the Mellon Foundation and Tim Barringer. An RSA–Samuel H. Kress Mid-Career Research and Publication Fellowship helped to support the completion of the manuscript. This book was built upon the generosity and expertise of many conservators, curators, and paper specialists who shared their knowledge and collections with me, including Stephanie Buck, Jay Clarke, Barbara Dossi, Margaret Holben Ellis, Theresa Fairbanks-Harris, Oleknka Horbatsch, Franz Kirchweger, Penley Knipe, John Marciari, Christof Metzger, Roy Perkinson, Astrid Reuter, Stephanie Schrader, and Martin Sonnabend. Alexander Nagel and Scott Nethersole read early drafts of “Forgetting Paper’s Origins” and offered generous comments. Ittai Weinryb inspired the chapter “Tracking Paper Routes across the Early Modern World.” And Katherine Boller was a vital early supporter of the project.

I thank Megan Williams for organizing the stimulating conference “The Politics of Paper in the Early Modern World.” Susan Dackerman generously invited me to a stimulating workshop on the extinction of print, where I presented an early version of this project. A lively panel on paper in the artist’s workshop at the Renaissance Society of America’s annual conference offered important feedback and discussion, and I thank the participants, Shira Brisman, Donald Farnsworth, Mauro Mussolin, and Camilla Pietrabissa. I also thank Alexander Marr for inviting me to present in the “Genius before Romanticism” workshop and for hosting stimulating discussion. Ulrich Pfisterer, Gauvin Alexander Bailey, and the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte offered an exceptional summer for research and writing. At the Clark Art Institute, Mike Agee and Teresa O’Toole were important in helping to provide technical photography of works on paper. And I thank my colleagues at the Clark: Lauren Cannady, Deb Fehr, Marc Gotlieb, Kathryn Griffith, Olivier Meslay, and Samantha Page, who supported the completion of this project as I began a new job and embarked on motherhood.

Thank you to my parents and my sister for making impossible worlds seem possible. My best reader remains my husband, Nat Silver. And I finished this manuscript as you came into the world, Theo, and “your bald cry/Took its place among the elements.” This book is for you.

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BOOKThe Art of Paper: From the Holy Land to the Americas

Caroline Fowler

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00195

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-19954

In the late medieval and Renaissance period, paper transformed society—not only through its role in the invention of print but also in the way it influenced artistic production. The Art of Paper tells the history of this medium in the context of the artist’s workshop from the thirteenth century, when it was imported to Europe from Africa, to the sixteenth century, when European paper was exported to the colonies of New Spain. In this pathbreaking work, Caroline Fowler approaches the topic culturally rather than technically, deftly exploring the way paper shaped concepts of authorship, preservation, and the transmission of ideas during this period. This book both tells a transcultural history of paper from the Cairo Genizah to the Mesoamerican manuscript and examines how paper became “Europeanized” through the various mechanisms of the watermark, colonization, and the philosophy of John Locke. Ultimately, Fowler demonstrates how paper—as refuse and rags transformed into white surface—informed the works for which it was used, as well as artists’ thinking more broadly, across the early modern world.

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Caroline Fowler

PublisherYale University Press

Print publication date November 2019 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780300246025

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