Albrecht Dürer and the Epistolary Mode of Address / / Shira Brisman

• Autore: Brisman Shira
• Pubblicazione: Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2017]; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (232 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 700.943
• Soggetto topico: Communication and the arts - Germany - History - 16th century; Communication in art - Germany - History - 16th century; Visual communication - Germany - History - 16th century; German letters - 16th century - History and criticism; Written communication - Germany - History - 16th century
• Soggetto non controllato: Albrecht Dürer; German; address; audience; author; communication; handwriting; letters; postal system; prints; technology; writing
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2017.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Art 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Albrecht Dürer and the Epistolary Mode of Address
• ISBN: 0-226-35489-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154283903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II