Clever Object

Matthew C. Hunter is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. He is author of Wicked Intelligence: Visual Art and the Science of Experiment in Restoration London (2013) and co-editor of Beyond Mimesis and Convention: Representation in Art and Science (2010).Francesco Lucchini is a Psychoanalytic Training Candidate at the C. G. Jung Institut, Zurich. He is also an art historian and theorist with an interest in the relationship between objects and ideas, thinking and things.

• 6 Notes on Contributors8 Chapter 1 The Clever Object: Three Pavilions, Three Loggias, and a PlanetariumMatthew C. Hunter and Francesco Lucchini32 Chapter 2 Aleardino’s GlassFrancesco Lucchini52 Chapter 3 Object, Image, Cleverness: The Lienzo de TlaxcalaByron Ellsworth Hamann80 Chapter 4 Picture, Object, Puzzle, Prompter: Devilish Cleverness in Restoration LondonMatthew C. Hunter102 Chapter 5 Screen Wise, Screen Play: Jacques de Lajoue and the Ruses of RococoKatie Scott142 Chapter 6 William Morris’s Tapestry: Metamorphosis and Prophecy in The WoodpeckerCaroline Arscott160 Chapter 7 Fischli and Weiss’s Equilibre/Quiet Afternoon (1984-5)Rachel Wells174 Chapter 8 Clever Objects – Tell-Tale ObjectsSimon Starling in conversation with Christiane Rekade186 Chapter 9 Fragments of Great VisionsIan Kiaer in conversation with Christiane Rekade198 Chapter 10 Response: Clever FetishistsRoman Frigg204 Chapter 11 Response: Playing DumbGlenn Adamson211 Index