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Tudor Liveliness - Vivid Art in Post-Reformation England (Hardcover)
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Tudor Liveliness - Vivid Art in Post-Reformation England (Hardcover)
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A groundbreaking approach to the problem of realism in Tudor art
In Tudor and Jacobean England, visual art was often termed
“lively.” This word was used to describe the full range of
visual and material culture—from portraits to funeral monuments,
book illustrations to tapestry. To a modern viewer, this claim
seems perplexing: what could “liveliness” have meant in a
culture with seemingly little appreciation for illusionistic
naturalism? And in a period supposedly characterised by fear of
idolatry, how could “liveliness” have been a good thing?
In this wide-ranging and innovative book, Christina Faraday
excavates a uniquely Tudor model of vividness: one grounded in
rhetorical techniques for creating powerful mental images for
audiences. By drawing parallels with the dominant communicative
framework of the day, Tudor Liveliness sheds new light on a lost
mode of Tudor art criticism and appreciation, revealing how objects
across a vast range of genres and contexts were taking part in the
same intellectual and aesthetic conversations. By resurrecting a
lost model for art theory, Faraday re-enlivens the vivid visual and
material culture of Tudor and Jacobean England, recovering its
original power to move, impress and delight. Distributed
for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
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