The Work of Art: The Installations of Kelli Rae Adams

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of Illustrations 7
4. Acknowledgments 13
5. Introduction: Embodying Value 15
6. Power and Authority in the Mint
7. 1. Weighing Things Up in Maarten de Vos’s Tribunal of the Brabant Mint 1594 45
8. 2. Scaling the World: Allegory of Coinage and Monetary Governance in the Dutch Republic 79
9. Currency and the Anxieties of Global Trade
10. 3. Market Stall in Batavia: Money, Value, and Uncertainty in the Age of Global Trade 105
11. 4. Beyond the Mint: Picturing Gold on the Rijksmuseum’s Box of the Dutch West India Company 131
12. Coins and Persons
13. 5. The Heft of Truth: Inwardness and Debased Coinage in Shakespeare’s Plays 153
14. 6. Identity, Agency, Motion: Taylor’s Twelvepence and the Poetry of Commodity 179
15. Coins in and out of Circulation
16. 7. Margarethe Butzbach and the Florin Extorted by Blows. Coins Securing Social Bonds in Fifteenth-Century Germany 201
17. 8. Centring the Coin in Jacob Backer’s Woman with a Coin 227
18. Credit and Risk
19. 9. Accounting Faith and Seeing ‘Ghost Money’ in Masaccio’s Tribute Money 251
20. 10. Monetary Transactions and Pictorial Gambles in Georges de La Tour 273
21. Afterword
22. The Work of Art: The Installations of Kelli Rae Adams 297
23. Index 309