Stielau, A;
(2021)
Liquid Metaphors and the Politics of Melted Metal.
West 86th
, 28
(2)
pp. 319-326.
10.1086/721215.
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Abstract
By recording the physical evidence of metal’s molten transition between forms, gold and silver ingots offer a material foothold on the metaphors of liquidity and flow used to conceptualize the global circulation of precious metal in premodernity. This article examines the human role in making metal liquid and the political stakes of framing melted artifacts historically and museologically by way of an ingot now in Mexico City that was produced from Indigenous gold during the Spanish conquest.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Liquid Metaphors and the Politics of Melted Metal |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1086/721215 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1086/721215 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of History of Art |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10178297 |
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