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1 online resource (xiv, 189 pages) : illustrations |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 .. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-181) |
| Notes |
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Art, European -- Congresses
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European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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Music -- Europe -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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History of ideas.
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Theory of art.
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Social & cultural history.
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ART -- Performance.
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ART -- Reference.
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Art, European
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Civilization
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European literature -- Renaissance
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Music
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Europe -- Civilization -- Congresses
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Europe
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Goethals, Jessica
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McGuire, Valerie
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Zhang, Gaoheng
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| LC no. |
2008425519 |
| ISBN |
9781443812160 |
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1443812161 |
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1282334506 |
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9781282334502 |
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9786612334504 |
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6612334509 |
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