关于纸如何在文艺复兴时期彻底改变了艺术创作的未被讲述的故事，探索了它如何在三百多年来影响了更广泛的作者概念，记忆和思想传播

在中世纪晚期和文艺复兴时期，纸——不仅通过其在版画发明中的作用而且还通过其影响艺术创作的方式——改变了社会。《纸的艺术》在画家工作室的背景下讲述了这种媒介的历史，从13世纪（当时纸从非洲被进口到欧洲）到16世纪（当时欧洲纸被出口到新西班牙的殖民地）。在这项开创性的作品中，卡罗琳•福勒（Caroline Fowler）从文化角度而非技术角度探讨了该主题，并巧妙地探索了在这段时期内，纸影响作者身份的概念的方式，纸的保存和思想传播的方式。本书讲述了纸的跨文化历史，从开罗吉尼扎（Cairo Genizah）到中美洲手稿，并探讨了纸如何通过水印，殖民化和约翰•洛克（John Locke）的哲学等各种机制被 “欧洲化”的。

The untold story of how paper revolutionized art making during the Renaissance, exploring how it shaped broader concepts of authorship, memory, and the transmission of ideas over the course of three centuries

In the late medieval and Renaissance period, paper transformed society—not only through its role in the invention of print but also in the way it influenced artistic production. The Art of Paper tells the history of this medium in the context of the artist’s workshop from the thirteenth century, when it was imported to Europe from Africa, to the sixteenth century, when European paper was exported to the colonies of New Spain. In this pathbreaking work, Caroline Fowler approaches the topic culturally rather than technically, deftly exploring the way paper shaped concepts of authorship, preservation, and the transmission of ideas during this period. This book both tells a transcultural history of paper from the Cairo Genizah to the Mesoamerican manuscript and examines how paper became “Europeanized” through the various mechanisms of the watermark, colonization, and the philosophy of John Locke. Ultimately, Fowler demonstrates how paper—as refuse and rags transformed into white surface—informed the works for which it was used, as well as artists’ thinking more broadly, across the early modern world.