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The Art of Poverty. Irony and Ideal in Sixteenth-Century Beggar Imagery.
Tom Nichols
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Hardback. 'The art of poverty' is the first book in English to analyse depictions of beggars in sixteenth-century European art. It develops a striking thesis, arguing that such images largely conformed to two paradoxical, though complimentary, traditions: the one ironising, the other idealising. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations, black & white|Illustrations, colour|Line drawings, unspecified. BIC Classification: ACN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 178 x 241 x 21. Weight in Grams: 880.
The art of poverty is the first book in English to analyse depictions of beggars in sixteenth-century European art. Featuring works from Germany, the Low Countries, Britain, France and Italy, it discusses a diverse body of imagery in many different media, from crude woodcuts to monumental church altarpieces. It develops a striking thesis, arguing that these works largely conformed to two paradoxical, though mutually supportive, representational approaches. The earlier chapters follow the emergence of a trenchantly negative approach in Northern art, in which beggars are shown as vagabonds, whose idleness and thievery threatened the values of sixteenth-century ... Read more
The art of poverty is the first book in English to analyse depictions of beggars in sixteenth-century European art. Featuring works from Germany, the Low Countries, Britain, France and Italy, it discusses a diverse body of imagery in many different media, from crude woodcuts to monumental church altarpieces. It develops a striking thesis, arguing that these works largely conformed to two paradoxical, though mutually supportive, representational approaches. The earlier chapters follow the emergence of a trenchantly negative approach in Northern art, in which beggars are shown as vagabonds, whose idleness and thievery threatened the values of sixteenth-century ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719075827
SKU
V9780719075827
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About Tom Nichols
Tom Nichols is Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of Aberdeen -- .
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