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Reciprocal design in Italian Renaissance wood intarsia : patterns, parasites, and human/more-than-human making
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Ajmar, Marta (2024) Reciprocal design in Italian Renaissance wood intarsia : patterns, parasites, and human/more-than-human making. Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, 87 (1). pp. 25-47. doi:10.1515/zkg-2024-1004 ISSN 2569-1619.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/zkg-2024-1004
Abstract
This article explores how Italian Renaissance intarsia emerged from making practices sensitive to wood as animate material, and from a design correspondence with its environment. It argues that intarsia reconciled different modes: design-drawing, design in wood, and design with wood. These interconnected practices allow us to reconfigure intarsia as a technology created holistically from the correspondence of different human and more-than-human forces, including parasites – such as woodworm and fungi – and elemental factors – such as heat, water and air – all mobilised in active processes of pattern-making. It shows how this “Wood Age” craft is also an ecologically-rooted response to growing concerns about timber availability and forest sustainability. Finally, it proposes for intarsia the concept of reciprocal design, where patterns emerge from continuous correspondence and co-making between human and more-than-human agents.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History of Art | ||||||
SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte | ||||||
Publisher: | De Gruyter | ||||||
ISSN: | 2569-1619 | ||||||
Official Date: | 25 March 2024 | ||||||
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Volume: | 87 | ||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 25-47 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1515/zkg-2024-1004 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 24 April 2024 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 24 April 2024 |
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