Material Culture and Cultural Materialisms - Perry Curtis
In the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 5)
KORTE INHOUD
The phrase 'cultural materialism', coined by Raymond Williams in 1977, names an approach to cultural analysis that interrogates the socio-economic conditions within which artefacts are produced as well as their participation in other ideological and material fields of culture. This approach, which has led to the emergence of cultural studies as a discipline, has also contributed to a sea-change within medieval and Renaissance scholarship. Disciplines that have traditionally studied cultural artefacts like literature and painting have increasingly emphasized the kinds of questions Williams articulated, focusing on the material production and ideological operation of objects once thought of in idealized or purely aesthetic terms. By the same token, historians - whose work, of necessity, has always tended to deal with the material traces of culture - have increasingly been willing to consider the social and ideological importance of art. The increasing popularity of this cultural studies approach to the past has...
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2001Uitgever: Brepols Publishers246 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 2503510744ISBN-13: 9782503510743Koop dit boek tweedehands
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The essays in this collection challenge cultural materialists in different disciplines to articulate specific relationships between modern theoretical positions and the ideas and conventions that shaped the production of medieval and Renaissance cultures in Europe. The phrase 'cultural materialism', coined by Raymond Williams in 1977, names an approach to cultural analysis that interrogates the socio-economic conditions within which artefacts are produced as well as their participation in other ideological ...
