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Author Brisman, Shira, author.

Title Albrecht Dürer & the epistolary mode of address / Shira Brisman
Published Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016
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Description 1 online resource (223 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Introduction -- The body of a letter -- The message in transit -- Relay and delay -- Privileged mediators -- Interception -- Dürer's open letter -- Conclusion
Summary "Art historians have long looked to letters to secure biographical details; clarify relationships between artists and patrons; and present artists as modern, self-aware individuals. This book takes a novel approach: focusing on Albrecht Dürer, Shira Brisman is the first to argue that the experience of writing, sending, and receiving letters shaped how he treated the work of art as an agent for communication. In the early modern period, before the establishment of a reliable postal system, letters faced risks of interception and delay. During the Reformation, the printing press threatened to expose intimate exchanges and blur the line between public and private life. Exploring the complex travel patterns of sixteenth-century missives, Brisman explains how these issues of sending and receiving informed Dürer's artistic practices. His success, she contends, was due in large part to his development of pictorial strategies an epistolary mode of address marked by a direct and intimate appeal to the viewer, an appeal that also acknowledges the distance and delay that defers the message before it can reach its recipient. As images, often in the form of prints, coursed through an open market, and artists lost direct control over the sale and reception of their work, Germany's chief printmaker navigated the new terrain by creating in his images a balance between legibility and concealment, intimacy and public address." -- Provided by the publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-218) and index
Notes Shira Brisman is assistant professor of art history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
In English
Print version record
Subject Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528 -- Criticism and interpretation
Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528 -- Correspondence
SUBJECT Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528 fast
Dürer, Albrecht 1471-1528 gnd
Dürer, Albrecht, (1471-1528) ram
Subject Communication and the arts -- Germany -- History -- 16th century
Communication in art -- Germany -- History -- 16th century
Visual communication -- Germany -- History -- 16th century
German letters -- 16th century -- History and criticism
Written communication -- Germany -- History -- 16th century
Communication in art -- History -- 16th century
ART -- General.
Communication and the arts
Communication in art
German letters
Visual communication
Written communication
Brief
Kommunikation
Germany
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Personal correspondence
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780226354897
022635489X
Other Titles Albrecht Dürer and the epistolary mode of address