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Die ersten Zeugnisse christlicher mittelalterlicher Monumentalkunst in Hildesheim waren Teil eine... more Die ersten Zeugnisse christlicher mittelalterlicher Monumentalkunst in Hildesheim waren Teil eines kolonialen Projektes. Ihre Entstehung war eingebettet in die teils gewaltvolle Auseinandersetzung mit anderen Formen religiöser Verehrung in den gerade bekehrten Ländern. Das vorliegende Buch „Die Hildesheimer Avantgarde“ zeigt auf, wie Monumente, Materialien und Techniken durch territoriale, politische und religiöse Kriege ermöglicht wurden. Monumentale Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, so zeigt der Verfasser, wurde zu einem der Mechanismen, welche die koloniale Expansion Europas vorantrieben.

This book presents the first full length study in English of monumental bronzes in the Middle Age... more This book presents the first full length study in English of monumental bronzes in the Middle Ages. Taking as its point of departure the common medieval reception of bronze sculpture as living or animated, the study closely analyzes the practice of lost wax casting (cire perdue) in western Europe and explores the cultural responses to large scale bronzes in the Middle Ages. Starting with mining, smelting, and the production of alloys, and ending with automata, water clocks and fountains, the book uncovers networks of meaning around which bronze sculptures were produced and consumed. The book is a path-breaking contribution to the study of metalwork in the Middle Ages and to the re-evaluation of medieval art more broadly, presenting an understudied body of work to reconsider what the materials and techniques embodied in public monuments meant to the medieval spectator.

Votive objects or ex-votos are a broad category of material artifacts produced with the intention... more Votive objects or ex-votos are a broad category of material artifacts produced with the intention of being offered as acts of faith. Common across historical periods, religions, and cultures, they are presented as tokens of gratitude for prayers answered, as well as the physical manifestation of hopes and anxieties. Agents of Faith explores votive offerings in the context of material culture, art history, and religious studies to better understand their history and present-day importance. By looking at what humans have chosen to offer in their votive transactions, this volume uncovers their most intimate moments in life and questions the nature, role, and function of one of the most fundamental aspects of the relationship between people and things—the imbuing of objects with sentiment. Encompassing exquisite works of art as well as votives of humble origin and material, with objects dating from 2000 B.C. to the twenty-first century, the beautiful illustrations and wide-ranging text expose the global reach of votive practices and the profoundly personal nature behind their creation.

West 86th A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture, 2022

Derived from Latin ex voto suscepto “in pursuance of a vow,” an ex voto embodies the hopes, dream... more Derived from Latin ex voto suscepto “in pursuance of a vow,” an ex voto embodies the hopes, dreams, and anxieties of the person who deposits it. Almost anything, regardless of size, weight, form, or original function, can become a votive object. Ultimately, the category refers to a subset of the material world in which a thing is not necessarily made to be a votive, but instead becomes charged with votive meaning once dedicated to a deity or deities. This volume, one of the first collections devoted exclusively to the subject, builds on the assumption that a shared conceptual framework underpins votive objects, and that by merit of their consecration they have become a category representing a special stage in the life of a material.

The contributors to this comparative study examine ex votos across a range of locations and time periods, including the classical Mediterranean world, medieval Europe, the period of the Catholic Reform, and on to Mexico, Shinto and Buddhist Japan, and Muslim Iran. Voluminous and diverse, Ex Voto will appeal in a wide range of fields, including history, religion, and anthropology.

Exhibition catalogue, Catharsis, Galerie Templon, Paris (France), 2019 Texts by Ittai Weinryb, Al... more Exhibition catalogue, Catharsis, Galerie Templon, Paris (France), 2019
Texts by Ittai Weinryb, Alain Quemin, Prune Nourry and Angelina Jolie (English and French)

Editions Galerie Templon, 2019
ISBN 978-2-917515-36-5
Hardcover, 23,5 x 30 cm
64 pages

Papers by Ittai Weinryb

published in NA STOPĚ DESIGNU: K ARCHEOLOGICKÉ METODĚ

This short essay introduces the Bard Graduate Center working group on historical approaches to ac... more This short essay introduces the Bard Graduate Center working group on historical approaches to active matter. The so-called ontological and agentive turns in the humanities have encouraged rethinking the framework of dealing with agency and ontology in historical perspective. The essays in the section offer various ways to deal with historical objects and materials as they manifested themselves in different historical instances and explore the implications of such moments in history for studying the past.

Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place, 2018

Votive objects or ex-votos are a broad category of material artifacts produced with the intention... more Votive objects or ex-votos are a broad category of material artifacts produced with the intention of being offered as acts of faith. Common across historical periods, religions, and cultures, they are presented as tokens of gratitude for prayers answered, as well as the physical manifestation of hopes and anxieties. Agents of Faith explores votive offerings in the context of material culture, art history, and religious studies to better understand their history and present-day importance. By looking at what humans have chosen to offer in their votive transactions, this volume uncovers their most intimate moments in life and questions the nature, role, and function of one of the most fundamental aspects of the relationship between people and things—the imbuing of objects with sentiment. Encompassing exquisite works of art as well as votives of humble origin and material, with objects dating from 2000 B.C. to the twenty‐first century, the beautiful illustrations and wide-ranging text expose the global reach of votive practices and the profoundly personal nature behind their creation.

Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place, 2018

Votive objects or ex-votos are a broad category of material artifacts produced with the intention... more Votive objects or ex-votos are a broad category of material artifacts produced with the intention of being offered as acts of faith. Common across historical periods, religions, and cultures, they are presented as tokens of gratitude for prayers answered, as well as the physical manifestation of hopes and anxieties. Agents of Faith explores votive offerings in the context of material culture, art history, and religious studies to better understand their history and present-day importance. By looking at what humans have chosen to offer in their votive transactions, this volume uncovers their most intimate moments in life and questions the nature, role, and function of one of the most fundamental aspects of the relationship between people and things—the imbuing of objects with sentiment. Encompassing exquisite works of art as well as votives of humble origin and material, with objects dating from 2000 B.C. to the twenty‐first century, the beautiful illustrations and wide-ranging text expose the global reach of votive practices and the profoundly personal nature behind their creation.

Techniques et Culture , 2018

Technique, corps et matiere A partir de l'exposition « Agents of faith. Votives objets in time an... more Technique, corps et matiere A partir de l'exposition « Agents of faith. Votives objets in time and space ». New York 2018 Unejambs danon en bois delicatement sculptee a ere offene en 1951 a l'eglise de Notre Dame de Rimedio a Orisanto en Sardaigne (fig. I). Une photographie de l'anirnal eta it auachee a lobjet, tandis qu'a l'arriere de la jambe etaient graves les mots: Alia Madonna del Rimedia pagrazia n(evuta «< A Notre Dame de Rimedio pour la grace recue »). Le proprit'taire de l'anon a offert

cultural histories of the material world Cultural Histories of the Material World is a series cen... more cultural histories of the material world Cultural Histories of the Material World is a series centered on the exploration of the material turn in the study of culture. Volumes in the series examine the ways human beings have shaped and interpreted the material world from a broad range of scholarly perspectives and show how attention to materiality can contribute to a more precise historical understanding of specific times, places, ways, and means.

West 86th A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture, 2022

Editions Galerie Templon, 2019
ISBN 978-2-917515-36-5
Hardcover, 23,5 x 30 cm
64 pages

published in NA STOPĚ DESIGNU: K ARCHEOLOGICKÉ METODĚ

Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place, 2018

Votive objects or ex-votos are a broad category of material artifacts produced with the intention... more Votive objects or ex-votos are a broad category of material artifacts produced with the intention of being offered as acts of faith. Common across historical periods, religions, and cultures, they are presented as tokens of gratitude for prayers answered, as well as the physical manifestation of hopes and anxieties. Agents of Faith explores votive offerings in the context of material culture, art history, and religious studies to better understand their history and present-day importance. By looking at what humans have chosen to offer in their votive transactions, this volume uncovers their most intimate moments in life and questions the nature, role, and function of one of the most fundamental aspects of the relationship between people and things—the imbuing of objects with sentiment. Encompassing exquisite works of art as well as votives of humble origin and material, with objects dating from 2000 B.C. to the twenty‐first century, the beautiful illustrations and wide-ranging text expose the global reach of votive practices and the profoundly personal nature behind their creation.

Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place, 2018

Votive objects or ex-votos are a broad category of material artifacts produced with the intention... more Votive objects or ex-votos are a broad category of material artifacts produced with the intention of being offered as acts of faith. Common across historical periods, religions, and cultures, they are presented as tokens of gratitude for prayers answered, as well as the physical manifestation of hopes and anxieties. Agents of Faith explores votive offerings in the context of material culture, art history, and religious studies to better understand their history and present-day importance. By looking at what humans have chosen to offer in their votive transactions, this volume uncovers their most intimate moments in life and questions the nature, role, and function of one of the most fundamental aspects of the relationship between people and things—the imbuing of objects with sentiment. Encompassing exquisite works of art as well as votives of humble origin and material, with objects dating from 2000 B.C. to the twenty‐first century, the beautiful illustrations and wide-ranging text expose the global reach of votive practices and the profoundly personal nature behind their creation.

Techniques et Culture , 2018

Cultural Histories of the Material World, ed. Peter N. Miller

Angkorian Founders and Bronze Casting Skills: First Technical Investigation of the West Mebon Visnu

Bulletin de l'Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient

Covering, protecting, and adorning the body count among the most fundamental of human concerns, a... more Covering, protecting, and adorning the body count among the most fundamental of human concerns, at once conveying aspects of an individual's persona while also situating a person within a given social context. Wearable adornment encompasses materials fashioned by human hands (like fabric, metalwork, or even animal bones) and modifications to the body itself (such as tattoos, cosmetics, or hairstyles), which beautify the body while simultaneously conveying social, political, and protective functions and meanings. The wearable is thus the most representational and at the same time most intimate product of material culture. This conference seeks to expand our current understanding of the wearable in the Middle Ages. Current scholarship on the topic in Byzantine, western medieval, Eurasian art, as well as Islamic traditions tends to encompass clothing and jewelry, and is frequently medium-specific, with minimal regard to the interrelatedness of different aspects of appearance. On the one hand, work on medieval textiles has tended to approach questions of identity, consumption, and appearance by comparing textual sources and visual depictions with surviving textiles. The study of medieval jewelry, on the other hand, largely focuses on the classification and attribution of precious metal pieces from excavations and museum collections, as scholars make sense of pieces long removed from the bodies they once adorned. Tattoos, prosthetics, cosmetics and headgear are almost entirely absent in our understandings of medieval dress practices. This separation was not always so, however, and indeed nineteenth-century art historians such as Gottfried Semper integrated all aspects of bodily adornment in their considerations of the nature of ornamentation and surface decoration.

Video: Symposium—Rethinking the Wearable in the Middle Ages

This conference seeks to expand our current understanding of the wearable in the Middle Ages. Current scholarship on the topic in Byzantine, western medieval, Eurasian art, as well as Islamic traditions tends to encompass clothing and jewelry, and is frequently medium-specific, with minimal regard to the interrelatedness of different aspects of appearance. On the one hand, work on medieval textiles has tended to approach questions of identity, consumption, and appearance by comparing textual sources and visual depictions with surviving textiles. The study of medieval jewelry, on the other hand, largely focuses on the classification and attribution of precious metal pieces from excavations and museum collections, as scholars make sense of pieces long removed from the bodies they once adorned. Tattoos, prosthetics, cosmetics and headgear are almost entirely absent in our understandings of medieval dress practices. This separation was not always so, however, and indeed nineteenth-century art historians such as Gottfried Semper integrated all aspects of bodily adornment in their considerations of the nature of ornamentation and surface decoration.

See a type of South Asian votive, known as a tsa tsa, being made from clay near temple sites in t... more See a type of South Asian votive, known as a tsa tsa, being made from clay near temple sites in the video, Tibetan Buddhist Tsa Tsa and Tibetan Bon-po Tsa Tsa, created for the exhibition. Photography and video courtesy of Chandra Reed, University of Delaware. Video editing by Demetrius Borge.

From the exhibition:
Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place
September 14, 2018 – January 6, 2019

The Mongol Zoominar Presents: New Directions in Mongol Art and Material Culture with: Ittai Weinr... more The Mongol Zoominar Presents:
New Directions in Mongol Art and Material Culture
with:
Ittai Weinryb (Bard Graduate Center): “Sign and Design:
Corporate Branding in the Long Thirteenth Century”

Yong Cho (University of California, Riverside): “Artisan, Workshop, and
Taxonomy of Art in the Yuan Court”

Organizer and Chair: Wonhee Cho

Friday, January 20th 2023, 15:30 IST/14:30 CET

https://huji.zoom.us/j/87992111867?pwd=UEZRTWYvSG0rRXIxNXh0MGdPeklrdz09

ONE: The most central form of our daily life at Wiko was a rectangle. Beige in color, and measuri... more ONE: The most central form of our daily life at Wiko was a rectangle. Beige in color, and measuring about 45 × 30 cm, it was stacked one on top of the other in the beginning of the food dispensary line at the dining room. The rectangular form, that we held on average almost 150 times during our Wiko year, was the form on which our hopes and dreams for conversation and exchange were amassed every lunch. Food was only secondary to our rectangles. This led to a daily exercise of organizing our beige companions on the dining