Hollow Men: Writing, Objects, and Public Image in Renaissance Italy - Couverture souple

Gaylard, Susan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0823251918 ISBN 13 : 9780823251919

Editeur : Fordham University Press, 2013

Synopsis

This book relates developments in the visual arts and printing to humanist theories of literary and bodily imitation, bringing together fifteenth- and sixteenth-century frescoes, statues, coins, letters, dialogues, epic poems, personal emblems, and printed collections of portraits. Its interdisciplinary analyses show that Renaissance theories of emulating classical heroes generated a deep skepticism about self-presentation, ultimately contributing to a new awareness of representation as representation.

Hollow Men shows that the Renaissance questioning of "interiority" derived from a visual ideal, the monument that was the basis of teachings about imitation. In fact, the decline of exemplary pedagogy and the emergence of modern masculine subjectivity were well underway in the mid-fifteenth century, and these changes were hastened by the rapid development of the printed image.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Susan Gaylard is Assistant Professor of Italian at the University of Washington.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fordham University Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0823251918
• ISBN 13: 9780823251919
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 372
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• Personne responsable: non disponible