Art and Alchemy.8763502674 Art & alchemy. Ed. by Jacob Wamberg. Museum Tusculanum Press Museum Tusculanum Press (Danish: Museum Tusculanums Forlag) is an academic press of the University of Copenhagen for the fields of humanities, social sciences and theology. It was founded in 1975 as a non-profit institution and publishes approximately 60 titles annually. 2006 297 pages $54.00 Paperback N7420 These richly illustrated articles cover the representation of alchemy in art from the late Middle Ages to the 20th century. The authors, who are artists, curators and art historians from the US and Europe, address such topics as alchemical gender symbolism in Renaissance, Mannerist man·ner·ism n. 1. A distinctive behavioral trait; an idiosyncrasy. 2. Exaggerated or affected style or habit, as in dress or speech. See Synonyms at affectation. 3. and modernist art; Netherlandish 17th-century portrayals of alchemists An alchemist was a person versed in the art of alchemy, an ancient branch of natural philosophy that eventually evolved into chemistry and pharmacology. Alchemy flourished in the Islamic world during the Middle Ages, and then in Europe from the 13th to the 18th centuries. ; and alchemy as the forerunner of photography. Distributed in the US by ISBS ISBS International Society of Biomechanics in Sports ISBS International Society for Biophysics and Imaging of the Skin ISBS Illinois State Button Society ISBS Iowa State Button Society ISBS Idaho State Button Society . ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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