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Power and image in early modern Europe / edited by Jessica Goethals, Valerie McGuire and Gaoheng Zhang.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, European--Congresses.
- Art, European.
- European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600--History and criticism--Congresses.
- European literature.
- Music--Europe--History and criticism--Congresses.
- Music.
- Europe--Civilization--Congresses.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (203 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 the means to consolidate and subvert institutionalized or non-institutionalized bodies of power. Meanwhile, communities in Europe reacted to the intrinsic power of the image in literature and ...
- Contents:
- pt. I. Consolidating power and hegemony through image negotiation
- pt. II. The mobile referent and constructions of self and nation
- pt. III. Departures from the Orthodox : re-imaging convention and culture.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-181) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-33450-6
- 9786612334504
- 1-4438-1216-1
- OCLC:
- 827209485
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