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Description for In Your Face
Hardback. In Your Face concentrates on the basic Renaissance concern with self-fashioning by examining the behavior of some notorious Italian artists and writers, including Michelangelo and Benvenuto Cellini, who upset the decorum of their time on a grand scale. Num Pages: 272 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JB; ACND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. .
In Your Face concentrates on the Renaissance concern with "self-fashioning" by examining how a group of Renaissance artists and writers encoded their own improprieties in their works of art. In the elitist court society of sixteenth-century Italy, where moderation, limitation, and discretion were generally held to be essential virtues, these men consistently sought to stand out and to underplay their conspicuousness at once. The heroes (or anti-heroes) of this book—Michelangelo Buonarroti, Benvenuto Cellini, Pietro Aretino, and Anton Francesco Doni—violated norms of decorum by promoting themselves aggressively and by using writing or artworks to memorialize their assertiveness and intractable delight in ... Read more
In Your Face concentrates on the Renaissance concern with "self-fashioning" by examining how a group of Renaissance artists and writers encoded their own improprieties in their works of art. In the elitist court society of sixteenth-century Italy, where moderation, limitation, and discretion were generally held to be essential virtues, these men consistently sought to stand out and to underplay their conspicuousness at once. The heroes (or anti-heroes) of this book—Michelangelo Buonarroti, Benvenuto Cellini, Pietro Aretino, and Anton Francesco Doni—violated norms of decorum by promoting themselves aggressively and by using writing or artworks to memorialize their assertiveness and intractable delight in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804762151
SKU
V9780804762151
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Ref
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About Douglas Biow
Douglas Biow is Professor of Italian & Comparative Literature, Director of the Center for European Studies, and Superior Oil Company Linward Shivers Centennial Professor in Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy (2006).
Reviews for In Your Face
"This is a book to read and also to revisit for subsequent readings . . . Students of the Italian Renaissance will find much that is at once familiar and fresh in this intriguing volume."
Patrice Ross "A new take on the much mentioned self-fashioning in The Renaissance is to be found in Douglas Biow's remarkable book In Your ... Read more
Patrice Ross "A new take on the much mentioned self-fashioning in The Renaissance is to be found in Douglas Biow's remarkable book In Your ... Read more