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Fictions of the Pose: Rembrandt Against the Italian Renaissance by Berger, Harry
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 2 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780804733243
- Book Title
- Fictions of the Pose : Rembrandt Against the Italian Renaissance
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Item Length
- 10 in
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Genre
- Art
- Topic
- Individual Artists / General, Subjects & Themes / Portraits
- Item Weight
- 23.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 7.4 in
- Number of Pages
- 624 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Stanford University Press
ISBN-10
0804733244
ISBN-13
9780804733243
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1167556
Product Key Features
Book Title
Fictions of the Pose : Rembrandt Against the Italian Renaissance
Number of Pages
624 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Individual Artists / General, Subjects & Themes / Portraits
Publication Year
2000
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Item Length
10 in
Item Width
7.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
99-039775
Reviews
"Berger comes to art history from outside of art history, like fresh air through an open window."-- Common Knowledge, "Specialists in the field should be interested in Berger's re-interpretation of particular portraits by Rembrandt and other artists. . . . More general readers can benefit from these summaries. . . ."--Canadian Journal of History, "Specialists in the field should be interested in Berger's re-interpretation of particular portraits by Rembrandt and other artists. . . . More general readers can benefit from these summaries. . . ."-- Canadian Journal of History, "Berger comes to art history from outside of art history, like fresh air through an open window."— Common Knowledge, "Specialists in the field should be interested in Berger's re-interpretation of particular portraits by Rembrandt and other artists. . . . More general readers can benefit from these summaries. . . ."— Canadian Journal of History, Berger comes to art history from outside of art history, like fresh air through an open window."— Common Knowledge, "Berger comes to art history from outside of art history, like fresh air through an open window."- Common Knowledge, "Specialists in the field should be interested in Berger's re-interpretation of particular portraits by Rembrandt and other artists. . . . More general readers can benefit from these summaries. . . ."- Canadian Journal of History, Specialists in the field should be interested in Berger's re-interpretation of particular portraits by Rembrandt and other artists. . . . More general readers can benefit from these summaries. . . ."— Canadian Journal of History, "Berger comes to art history from outside of art history, like fresh air through an open window."--Common Knowledge, "Specialists in the field should be interested in Berger's re-interpretation of particular portraits by Rembrandt and other artists. . . . More general readers can benefit from these summaries. . . ."-Canadian Journal of History
Synopsis
This lavishly illustrated reading of the structure and meaning of portraiture asks what happens when portraits are interpreted as imitations or likenesses not only of individuals but also of their acts of posing. Includes 84 illustrations, 40 in color., The foundational question this book explores is: What happens when portraits are interpreted as imitations or likenesses not only of individuals but also of their acts of posing--when the observer's attention is redirected so that the primary object the portrait imitates becomes the likeness not of a person but of an act, the act of sitting for one's portrait? This shift of attention involves another: from the painter's to the sitter's part in the act of (self-)portrayal. At the ground level, Fictions of the Pose develops a hypothesis about the structure and meaning of portraiture. That foundation supports a first story devoted to the practices and politics of early modern Italian and Dutch portraiture and a second story devoted to Rembrandt's self-portraits, especially those in which he poses in fancy dress as if he were a patron. The author approaches the Rembrandt/Renaissance relation not as an art historian but as an interpreter trained in literary studies, taunted by the challenge of extending the practice of "close reading" from verbal to visual media and fascinated by the way this practice can show how individual works "talk back" to their contexts. The context for Rembrandt, the object and target of his "looking-glass theater," is the structure of patron/painter relations that developed during the Renaissance and influenced the very different conditions of patronage that emerged in the Dutch Republic around the turn of the seventeenth century. The book is in four parts. Parts One and Two comprise an interpretive study of the technical and sociopolitical conditions within which portraiture becomes an important if problematic medium of self-representation in early modern Europe. The major portion of these two sections considers the structure and the consequences of a system of practices and conventions that governs poses in commissioned portraits. In Part Three the scene shifts from Italian to Dutch portraiture. Part Four is devoted to self-portraits by Rembrandt that are interpreted as responses to the conditions depicted in the first three parts. Through a series of close readings of individual works, the author demonstrates the ironic, polemical, and political force of Rembrandt's self-portraits.
LC Classification Number
ND1309
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- _***d (161)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseTerrific item- ideal condition. Precisely as advertised. Wonderful price. The item was delivered and arrived sooner than expected. Quality protective packaging. Delightful Seller!Coffee with Groucho (Coffee withSeries) - Hardcover By Louvish, Simon - veryGOOD (#335626742398)