Knowledge-Making and the Material Imaginary in the Early Modern Workshop

• In Event: Practice and Object-Based Research on Early Modern Material Culture II

Abstract

How best might we characterize the kind of knowledge produced in an artisanal workshop in the early modern period? This paper considers possible terminology and concepts for the processes, principles, and taxonomies that emerged out of an artisan's engagement with the world of materials through skilled practice, experience, and the work of mind/body.

Author

• Pamela H. Smith, Columbia University