The Significance of Small Things gathers essays written by a range of scholarsto pay tributeto a special intellect –Diana Fane, Curator Emerita, Department of the Americas, at the Brooklyn Museum, New York.
The book acknowledges the importance of pursuing an object-based approach in art history, and celebrates the ability of objects to connect cultures, places, times and ideas. In accordance with Fane’s conviction that details deserve close inspection each author identifies, examines and interprets parts of an object that shed light on the whole work as well as on larger historical questions; some of these observations include an inscription on a box, the mysterious smile of a head on a vessel, a note in a photograph of an object, the hollowed trunk of an old tree, and a small man in the corner of a fresco, just to name a few observations highlighting the spirit of the unique person honored here.
Gathering at the Ahuehuete Tree: A Conversation Piece
págs. 14-22
págs. 23-31
Small Things on a Lifeboat: The Mesoamerican Study of European Culture
págs. 32-39
San Hipólito y las armas mexicanas: Sacralizing Epic History in a Viceregal Painting
págs. 40-47
Things that Belong: Objects and Their Declarations
págs. 48-54
Diana Fane: Curator of The Paracas Textile at the Brooklyn Museum
págs. 55-61
Cushions, Chairs, and Icpallis: The Performance of Sitting in Early Modern New Spain
págs. 62-69
Diego Valadé's Fons meritorum: Picturing the Treasury of Merits in the Sixteenth Century
págs. 70-77
The Legacy of the Bennett Expedition: A Spondsylus-Shaped Vessel from Lambayeque One
págs. 78-85
"No te hagas guaje": the Surprising Persistence of Gourds and Gourd-Form Vessels in Ancient Mesoamerica
págs. 86-93
págs. 94-102
págs. 103-111
A Compedium of Travels: Alexander von Humboldt's. Collection of Early Latin American Photographs
págs. 112-119
Conjuring Modernity: José María Eguren's Photographic Miniatures
págs. 120-127
págs. 128-135
págs. 136-142
"A Simple Twist of Fate": The Anatomy of a Bolivian Textile
págs. 143-149
The Curator's Eyes: Sebastiano Biavati, Custodian of a Heterogeneous Artistic World
págs. 150-158
págs. 159-164
The Dolphin and the Hare: Scaling an Abbasid Bird-Shaped Vessel
págs. 165-173
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