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

• Pubblicazione: Newcastle, : Cambridge Scholars, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (203 p.)
• Disciplina: 700.94
• Soggetto topico: Art, European; European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 - History and criticism; Music - Europe - History and criticism
• Soggetto geografico: Europe Civilization Congresses
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: GoethalsJessica McGuireValerie ZhangGaoheng
• 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 ...
• Titolo autorizzato: Power and image in early modern Europe
• ISBN: 1-282-33450-6; 9786612334504; 1-4438-1216-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910456774503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II