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Power and image in early modern Europe /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Goethals, Jessica, McGuire, Valerie, Zhang, Gaoheng
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.