{"product_id":"the-clever-object-isbn-9781118710760","title":"The Clever Object","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Clever Object\u003c\/i\u003e presents a multidisciplinary exploration of the ways objects materialise, embody, or negotiate various forms of intelligence, revealing its use as an analytic tool of art-historical interpretation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003ePresents an original theory (“the clever object”) that draws on contributions from a variety of fields, including history of art, anthropology, philosophy of science, and design history\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures interviews with two contemporary artists\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAdvances a theoretical conversation by combining historical contributions (from medieval\/early modern) with contemporary perspectives\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRepresents the results of a project developed from an intensive research seminar in which all contributors participated and developed their work in evolving dialogue\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  \u003cp\u003e6 Notes on Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Chapter 1 The Clever Object: Three Pavilions, Three Loggias, and a Planetarium\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMatthew C. Hunter and Francesco Lucchini\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Chapter 2 Aleardino’s Glass\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFrancesco Lucchini\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e52 Chapter 3 Object, Image, Cleverness: The Lienzo de Tlaxcala\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eByron Ellsworth Hamann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e80 Chapter 4 Picture, Object, Puzzle, Prompter: Devilish Cleverness in Restoration London\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMatthew C. Hunter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102 Chapter 5 Screen Wise, Screen Play: Jacques de Lajoue and the Ruses of Rococo\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKatie Scott\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e142 Chapter 6 William Morris’s Tapestry: Metamorphosis and Prophecy in The Woodpecker\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCaroline Arscott\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e160 Chapter 7 Fischli and Weiss’s Equilibre\/Quiet Afternoon (1984-5)\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRachel Wells\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e174 Chapter 8 Clever Objects – Tell-Tale Objects\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSimon Starling in conversation with Christiane Rekade\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e186 Chapter 9 Fragments of Great Visions\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIan Kiaer in conversation with Christiane Rekade\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e198 Chapter 10 Response: Clever Fetishists\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRoman Frigg\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e204 Chapter 11 Response: Playing Dumb\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGlenn Adamson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e211 Index\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMatthew C. Hunter\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. He is author of \u003ci\u003eWicked Intelligence: Visual Art and the Science of Experiment in Restoration London\u003c\/i\u003e (2013) and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eBeyond Mimesis and Convention: Representation in Art and Science\u003c\/i\u003e (2010).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrancesco Lucchini\u003c\/b\u003e is a Psychoanalytic Training Candidate at the C. G. Jung Institut, Zurich. He is also an art historian and theorist with an interest in the relationship between objects and ideas, thinking and things.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eObjects, according to the anthropological adage, are good to think with. But just what kind of thinking is it that objects enable—or constrain? Are some objects made “cleverer” than others simply through their manufacture or embodied virtuosity? And how might attention to such inherent cleverness enable one to reconsider the aesthetic objects privileged by historians of art?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Clever Object\u003c\/i\u003e presents a multidisciplinary exploration of the ways objects materialise, embody, or negotiate various forms of intelligence. Experts from the fields of anthropology, philosophy of science, design history and artistic practice offer rich insights into objects that frustrate conventional modes of narration while seeming to guide—even entrap—the subjects who make, behold, and interpret them. Original and thought-provoking, \u003ci\u003eThe Clever Object\u003c\/i\u003e defines, explores, and expands the category of “the clever object” as an analytic tool of art-historical interpretation for the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990188310757,"sku":"NP9781118710760","price":41.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781118710760.jpg?v=1761786843","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-clever-object-isbn-9781118710760","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}