Jaya Remond
Visiting Scholar (Jul 2018-Dec 2018)
PhD
Previously at the Institute 2016–17
Jaya Remond received her PhD in 2014 from the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. Her doctoral dissertation, entitled The Kunstbüchlein: Creating and Transmitting Artistic Know-how in Renaissance Germany, deals with printed artists’ manuals of the sixteenth century, such as Sebald Beham’s Kunst und Ler Büchlin and Erhard Schön’s Unnderweissung der proportzion unnd stellung der possen. Concentrating on the function and strategy of these training books, her study examines the authors’ goals, the specificity of their pedagogical mission, and the ways in which artistic knowledge (including basic geometry, the mastery of perspective and human proportions) is selected, framed, and presented. These small how-to books do not merely fix and transmit knowledge: they also seek to organize and codify it. Rather than offering a realistic program, however, Kunstbüchlein authors create and develop an ideal syllabus of artistic education.
Jaya’s research interests focus on Northern European art 1400–1700, artistic theory and practice in the early modern period, print culture, and the migration of artists and objects. Her work has been supported by research grants from the Graduate School of Art and Science at Harvard University where she was a presidential scholar, from the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, the Kress Foundation, and the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte. She is currently funded by a Research Scholarship from the Gerda Henkel Stiftung.
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Selected Publications
Remond, Jaya (2020). “Artful Instruction: Pictorializing and Printing Artistic Knowledge in Early Modern Germany.” Word & Image 36 (2): 101–134. https://doi.org/10.1080/02666286.2019.1631732.
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Remond, Jaya (2019). “‘Draw Everything That Exists in the World’: ’t Light Der Teken en Schilderkonst and the Shaping of Art Education in Early Modern Northern Europe.” In Lessons in Art: Art, Education, and Modes of Instruction since 1500, ed. E…
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Remond, Jaya (2018). “Distributing Dürer in the Netherlands: Gifts, Prints and the Mediation of Fame in the Early Sixteenth Century.” In The Agency of Things in Medieval and Early Modern Art: Materials, Power and Manipulation, ed. G. Jurkowlaniec, I…
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Remond, Jaya (2018). “Plantas e imágenes en el Norte de Europe durante la Edad Moderna.” In Maria Sybilla Merian y Alida Withoos: mujeres, arte y ciencia en la Edad Moderna, ed. M. M. Cabré Pairet and M. Cruz de Carlos Varona, 57–68. Santander:…
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Past Events
Premodern Conversations Series
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Money as a Problem for Early Modern People (and for Historians who Study Them)
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The Physician’s Album Amicorum: Vitality, Vividness, and Values.
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Transits in Time, Transits on Paper: Charles Plumier’s Iconographic Archive of Nature, 17th–19th centuries.
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Uncertainty, Risk, and Fortune
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Toward the History of Everything? How to Move between the History of Science, History of Technology and Global History
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The Notion of Industry
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Uncertainty, Risk, and Fortune
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Sanskrit, Plants, and Paper: Botanical Knowledge Making in East India Company Bengal, c. 1790
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Categorical Binaries
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Gestures and Experiment as Historical Method
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Expertise
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Rethinking the "One-Sex" Body: Sex, Gender, and Medicine in the Medieval World
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Technè as a Mindset: Artists' Primers in Early Modern Germany
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