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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456774503321

Titolo

Power and image in early modern Europe [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jessica Goethals, Valerie McGuire and Gaoheng Zhang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle, : Cambridge Scholars, 2008

ISBN

1-282-33450-6

9786612334504

1-4438-1216-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GoethalsJessica

McGuireValerie

ZhangGaoheng

Disciplina

700.94

Soggetti

Art, European

European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 - History and criticism

Music - Europe - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Europe Civilization Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-181) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 ...