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Harry Berger - Fictions of the Pose: Rembrandt Against the Italian Renaissance - 9780804733236 - V9780804733236
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Fictions of the Pose: Rembrandt Against the Italian Renaissance

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Description for Fictions of the Pose: Rembrandt Against the Italian Renaissance Hardback. This lavishly illustrated reading of the structure and meaning of portraiture asks what happens when portraits are interpreted as imitations or likenesses not only of individuals but also of their acts of posing. Includes 84 illustrations, 40 in color. Num Pages: 656 pages, 44 half-tones 40 colour plates. BIC Classification: 1DDN; ACND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 6452 x 4776 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1480.

The foundational question this book explores is: What happens when portraits are interpreted as imitations or likenesses not only of individuals but also of their acts of posing—when the observer's attention is redirected so that the primary object the portrait imitates becomes the likeness not of a person but of an act, the act of sitting for one's portrait? This shift of attention involves another: from the painter's to the sitter's part in the act of (self-)portrayal.

At the ground level, Fictions of the Pose develops a hypothesis about the structure and meaning of portraiture. That foundation supports a first ... Read more

The book is in four parts. Parts One and Two comprise an interpretive study of the technical and sociopolitical conditions within which portraiture becomes an important if problematic medium of self-representation in early modern Europe. The major portion of these two sections considers the structure and the consequences of a system of practices and conventions that governs poses in commissioned portraits. In Part Three the scene shifts from Italian to Dutch portraiture. Part Four is devoted to self-portraits by Rembrandt that are interpreted as responses to the conditions depicted in the first three parts. Through a series of close readings of individual works, the author demonstrates the ironic, polemical, and political force of Rembrandt's self-portraits.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
656
Condition
New
Number of Pages
656
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804733236
SKU
V9780804733236
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Harry Berger
Harry Berger, Jr., is Professor Emeritus of Literature and Art History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author, most recently, of Making Trifles of Terrors: Redistributing Complicities in Shakespeare (Stanford, 1997).

Reviews for Fictions of the Pose: Rembrandt Against the Italian Renaissance
"Specialists in the field should be interested in Berger's re-interpretation of particular portraits by Rembrandt and other artists. . . . More general readers can benefit from these summaries. . . ."—Canadian Journal of History "Berger comes to art history from outside of art history, like fresh air through an open window."—Common Knowledge

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