“As modern materials are found more often within museums and heritage institutions

ISBN 978-1-60606-041-4

—Edward James Olmos

the Poetics is too little read because it comes down to us in a form that is often difficult to follow

59 color and 1 b/w illustrations

Artists' Things: Rediscovering Lost Property from Eighteenth-Century France exhibition catalog “As modern materials are foundKatie Scott and Hannah Williams Histories of artists personal possessions shed new light on the lives of their owners. Artists are makers of things. Yet it is a measure of the disembodied manner in which we generally think about artists that we rarely consider the everyday items they own. This innovative book looks at objects that once belonged to artists, revealing not only the fabric of the eighteenth century art world in France but also