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Refiguring the Real - Picture and Modernity in Word and Image, 1400-1700 (Paperback)
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Refiguring the Real - Picture and Modernity in Word and Image, 1400-1700 (Paperback)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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In a major analysis of pictorial forms from the late Middle Ages to
the Enlightenment, Christopher Braider argues that the painted
image provides a metaphor and model for all other modes of
expression in Western culture--particularly literature, philosophy,
religion, and science. Because critics have conventionally
explained visual images in terms of verbal texts (Scripture, heroic
poetry, and myth), they have undervalued the impact of the
pictorial naturalism practiced by painters from the fifteenth
century onward and the fundamentally new conception of reality it
conveys. By reinterpreting modern Western experience in light of
northern "descriptive art," the author enriches our understanding
of how both painted and written cultural texts shape our
perceptions of the world at large. Throughout Braider draws on
works by such painters as van der Weyden, Bruegel the Elder, Steen,
Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Poussin, and addresses such topics as the
Incarnation of the Word in Christ, the elegiac foundations of
Enlightenment aesthetics, and the rivalry between northern and
southern art. His goal is not only to reexamine important aesthetic
issues but also to offer a new perspective on the general
intellectual and cultural history of the modern West. Originally
published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
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