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Early Modern Visual Culture

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Description for Early Modern Visual Culture Paperback. A collection of 10 original essays that explore the social context in which paintings, statues, textiles, maps, and other artifacts were produced and consumed in Renaissance England. Editor(s): Erickson, Peter; Hulse, Clark. Series: New Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 408 pages, 133 illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; 3JB; AC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 256 x 178 x 22. Weight in Grams: 762.

An interdisciplinary group of scholars applies the reinterpretive concept of "visual culture" to the English Renaissance. Bringing attention to the visual issues that have appeared persistently, though often marginally, in the newer criticisms of the last decade, the authors write in a diversity of voices on a range of subjects. Common among them, however, is a concern with the visual technologies that underlie the representation of the body, of race, of nation, and of empire.

Several essays focus on the construction and representation of the human body—including an examination of anatomy as procedure and visual concept, and a look at ... Read more

All of the essays in Early Modern Visual Culture explore the social context in which paintings, statues, textiles, maps, and other artifacts are produced and consumed. They also explore how those artifacts—and the acts of creating, collecting, and admiring them—are themselves mechanisms for fashioning the body and identity, situating the self within a social order, defining the otherness of race, ethnicity, and gender, and establishing relationships of power over others based on exploration, surveillance, and insight.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Series
New Cultural Studies
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812217346
SKU
V9780812217346
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About Peter Erickson
Peter Erickson, of the Clark Art Institute, is author of Patriarchal Structures in Shakespeare's Drama and Rewriting Shakespeare, Rewriting Ourselves. Clark Hulse is Professor of English and Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of The Rule of Art: Literature and Painting in the Renaissance.

Reviews for Early Modern Visual Culture
"As a picture of what currently might be most profitably studied in the visual culture of early modern England, and of how to conduct scholarship in the field, the volume is exemplary. . . . [It] treats a culture for which there is considerable scholarly interest, but from angles which have been woefully ignored up until now."—Joseph Koerner, Harvard University ... Read more

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