Research Catalog

Title

Marking time : objects, people, and their lives, 1500-1800 / edited by Edward Town & Angela McShane.

Publication

New Haven : Yale Center for British Art, [2020]

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Additional Authors

• Adamson, Glenn.
• McShane, Angela, 1959-
• Town, Edward,
• Yale Center for British Art.

Description

518 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps; 27 cm

Summary

"How do we measure the days of our lives? Marking Time considers that profound question in the context of early modern Britain. The period from 1500 to 1800 was one of extraordinary social transformations, many having to do with the way time itself was understood, measured, and recorded.

Uniform Title

Marking time (Yale Center for British Art)

Alternative Title

Objects, people, and their lives, 1500-1800

Subject

• Time and art > Exhibitions
• Time and art
• Time perception > Exhibitions
• Time perception

Note

• "This publication accompanies the exhibition Marking Time: Objects, People, and Their Lives, 1500-1800, organized by the Yale Center for British Art, on view October 29, 2020-February 28, 2021".

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Running Like Clockwork? Objects and "Early Modern" Time / Glenn Adamson -- Past Times: Temporalities in Early Modern England / Keith Wrightson -- Anglo-American Artisanal Time: Cumulative, Partially Invisible, Nonlinear, and Episodic / Edward S. Cooke, Jr. -- Marking Transatlantic Time: Britain and the Caribbean / Justin M. Brown -- Time, Measurement, and Authority/ Angela McShane -- Narrative Time and the View from the Nineteenth Century / Gavriella Levy Haskell -- Stopping Time: The Material Culture of Death and Commemoration / Nathan Flis -- Catalogue / all essays by Edward Town -- Epilogue: John H. Bryan Jr.: A Collector's Magical Kingdom / Jenny Saunt.

Call Number

BF468

ISBN

• 9780300254105
• 0300254105

LCCN

2020003822

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries