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SUMMARY:History of Art Lecture Series: Alessandra Russo (Columbia)
LOCATION:Loria Center 351\, 190 York Street\, New Haven\, CT 06511
DESCRIPTION:Cheiropoieta: Handmaking\, Artistry\, Curatorship\, Museums\n\
 nAlessandra Russo\, Columbia University\n\nIn the context of early modern
  globalization\, a myriad of handmade artifacts became arguments for deep
 ly contradictory claims: the inhabitability and exploitability of the mos
 t recondite corners of the world\; the political qualities and historical
  depth of the societies where they were produced\; the need to eradicate 
 idolatry\, precisely based on the argument of handmakingness\; and the ma
 terial and conceptual subtlety of discrete and yet comparable forms of hu
 man artistry\, on an unprecedented scale\, as well as their commodificati
 on. Contextualizing these concurrent claims in relationship to early mode
 rn art theorization\, I argue that the handmade artifacts observed throug
 hout the world\, had a fundamental impact in a profound change that took 
 place in Europe in the early modern times: when the fact of having been c
 reated by the human hand\, by the hand of the artist\, went from being a 
 vice to becoming a fundamental virtue. This transformation\, I contend\, 
 made it possible for these artifacts to eventually enter what I call “cur
 atorship spaces” —physical spaces where different agents\, including pain
 ters\, antiquarians\, collectors\, custodians\, but also naturalists and 
 doctors\, handled\, displayed\, copied\, studied\, and took care of a gre
 at variety of art-pieces\, giving them a new accessibility. I locate in t
 his process the genesis of early modern museums.\n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/
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