Material Culture and Cultural Materialisms - Curtis Perry

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: 9782503510743

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