Indecent bodies in early modern visual culture / edited by Fabian Jonietz, Mandy Richter, Alison G. Stewart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jonietz, Fabian, editor.

Richter, Mandy, editor.

Stewart, Alison, editor.

Series:

Visual and material culture, 1300-1700.

Visual and material culture, 1300-1700

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, East European.

Human beings in art.

Obscenity (Aesthetics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2026.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2022.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

The life-like depiction of the body became a central interest and defining characteristic of the European Early Modern period that coincided with the establishment of which images of the body were to be considered 'decent' and representable, and which disapproved, censored, or prohibited. Simultaneously, artists and the public became increasingly interested in the depiction of specific body parts or excretions. This book explores the concept of indecency and its relation to the human body across drawings, prints, paintings, sculptures, and texts. The ten essays investigate questions raised by such objects about practices and social norms regarding the body, and they look at the particular function of those artworks within this discourse.

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

Indecent Bodies in Early Modern Visual Culture: An Introduction

Fabian Jonietz, Mandy Richter, Alison G. Stewart

1. Taste, Lust, and the Male Body: Sexual Representations in Early Sixteenth-Century Northern Europe

Alison G. Stewart

2. Private Viewings: The Frankfurt Context of Sebald Beham's Die Nacht

Miriam Hall Kirch

3. To Show or Not to Show? Marcantonio Raimondi and the Representation of Female Pubic Hair

Mandy Richter

4. Treating Bodily Impurities: Skin, Art, and Medicine

Romana Sammern

5. Indecent Exposure and Honourable Uncovering in Renaissance Portraits of Women

Bette Talvacchia

6. Lust in Translation: Agency, Sexuality, and Gender Configuration in Pauwels Franck's Allegories of Love

Ricardo De Mambro Santos

7. 'So This Guy Walks into a Forest...:' Obscenity, Humour, Sex, and the Equine Body in Hans Baldung's Horses in a Forest Woodcuts (1534)

Pia F. Cuneo

8. Indecent Creativity and the Tropes of Human Excreta

Fabian Jonietz

9. 'It All Turns to Shit'

The Land of Cockaigne in Sixteenth-Century German Woodcuts

Susanne Meurer

10. Noëls and Bodily Fluids: The Business of Low-Country Ceremonial Fountains

Catherine Emerson

Index

List of Illustrations

Figure 0.1: Isaac Cruikshank, Indecency, coloured etching, 1799, Washington, D.C., Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, PC 3

1799

Indecency (A size) [P&P], https://www.loc.gov/item/2003652525/.

Figure 0.2: Master of the Hours of Henri II, Francis I as Minerva, parchment on oak, c. 1545, 234 × 134 mm, Paris, Bibliotheque nationale de France, Estampes, Res. Na 255.

Figure 0.3: Hans Liefrinck after Leonardo da Vinci, Two Grotesque Heads, engraving, 1538, 115 × 157 mm, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, acc. no. 2008.577.3, Gift of Leo Steinberg, 2008.

Figure 0.4: Domenico Ghirlandaio, Old Man and his Grandson, tempera on wood, c. 1490, 62.7 × 46.3 cm, Paris, Musee du Louvre, inv. RF 266, RMN-Grand Palais (Musee du Louvre) / Franck Raux, https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010064987.

Figure 0.5: German painter, The Giant Anton Frank with the Dwarf Thomele, canvas, end of sixteenth century, 266.8 × 162.5 cm, Vienna, Kunsthisto­risches Museum, inv. Gemäldegalerie, 8299 KHM-Museumsverband.

Figure 0.6: Master of the Crucifixion of Kempten, detail of Crucifixion, panel painting, c. 1460/70, Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, loan of the Bayerischen Staatsgemäldesammlungen Munich, inv. Gm879.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-485-6697-5

1-003-69791-7

90-485-5177-3

9781003697916

OCLC:

1351751959