Power and image in early modern Europe:
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Veröffentlicht: Newcastle Cambridge Scholars 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-181)
Triumph and the law : Giorgio Vasari's Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve and the iconology of the "state of exception" / Caroline Behrmann -- Anxious masculinity, affectation, and the creation of a personal image : echoes of Quintilian in Castiglione's Il libro del cortegiano / Jennifer Newman -- Mother's milk and Deborah's sword : the anatomy of Joan of Arc in Henry VI / Kathryn Falzareno -- Echo and Narcissus : labyrinths of the self in early modern music / Ljubica Ilic -- Aristocratic spectacle : visual and literary portraiture in the senteenth-century French salon / Hiva Hafiz -- The future of the past looks bleak : Spenser's recycled image and Baudrillard's simulacrum / Thomas LeCarner -- Taking Mary's pulse : Cartesianism and modernity in Rembrandt's The death of the Virgin / Elissa Auerbach -- Secular relic : the spectacle of the body in decay on the early modern English stage / N.M. Imbracsio -- Modernity and Byzantine icons / Lilia Verchinina
Are images and spectacles fundamental mediators of power relationships in the West? This book draws upon the language of cultural studies to investigate a contemporary hypothesis in the shifting ideological landscape of early modern Europe. Apparently aesthetic choices by artists may also have been the means to consolidate and subvert institutionalized or non-institutionalized bodies of power. Meanwhile, communities in Europe reacted to the intrinsic power of the image in literature and ..
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 189 pages)
ISBN:1443812161
1847184456
9781443812160
9781847184450

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