04004nam 22006975 450 991015428390332120200424112023.00-226-35489-X10.7208/9780226354897(CKB)4340000000022953(MiAaPQ)EBC4766829(StDuBDS)EDZ0001621514(DE-B1597)524669(OCoLC)1125186300(DE-B1597)9780226354897(EXLCZ)99434000000002295320200424h20172016 fg engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierAlbrecht Dürer and the Epistolary Mode of Address /Shira BrismanChicago : University of Chicago Press, [2017]©20161 online resource (232 pages) illustrationsPreviously issued in print: 2017.0-226-35475-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter one. The Body of a Letter -- Chapter two. The Message in Transit -- Chapter three. Relay and Delay -- Chapter four. Privileged Mediators -- Chapter five. Interception -- Chapter six. Dürer's Open Letter -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- IndexArt historians have long looked to letters to secure biographical details; clarify relationships between artists and patrons; and present artists as modern, self-aware individuals. This book takes a novel approach: focusing on Albrecht Dürer, Shira Brisman is the first to argue that the experience of writing, sending, and receiving letters shaped how he treated the work of art as an agent for communication. In the early modern period, before the establishment of a reliable postal system, letters faced risks of interception and delay. During the Reformation, the printing press threatened to expose intimate exchanges and blur the line between public and private life. Exploring the complex travel patterns of sixteenth-century missives, Brisman explains how these issues of sending and receiving informed Dürer's artistic practices. His success, she contends, was due in large part to his development of pictorial strategies-an epistolary mode of address-marked by a direct, intimate appeal to the viewer, an appeal that also acknowledged the distance and delay that defers the message before it can reach its recipient. As images, often in the form of prints, coursed through an open market, and artists lost direct control over the sale and reception of their work, Germany's chief printmaker navigated the new terrain by creating in his images a balance between legibility and concealment, intimacy and public address.Communication and the artsGermanyHistory16th centuryCommunication in artGermanyHistory16th centuryVisual communicationGermanyHistory16th centuryGerman letters16th centuryHistory and criticismWritten communicationGermanyHistory16th centuryAlbrecht Dürer.German.address.audience.author.communication.handwriting.letters.postal system.prints.technology.writing.Communication and the artsHistoryCommunication in artHistoryVisual communicationHistoryGerman lettersHistory and criticism.Written communicationHistory700.943Brisman Shira, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut990214DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910154283903321Albrecht Dürer and the Epistolary Mode of Address2264952UNINA