The Visible and the Invisible - On Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting (Hardcover, Digital original)

The book addresses the scientific debates on Rembrandt, Metsu, Vermeer, and Hoogstraten that are currently taking place in art history and cultural studies. These focus mainly on the representation of gender difference, the relationship between text and image, and the emotional discourse. They are also an appeal for art history as a form of cultural studies that analyses the semantic potential of art within discursive and social contemporary practices. Dutch painting of the seventeenth century reflects its relationship to visible reality. It deals with ambiguities and contradictions. As an avant-garde artistic media, it also contributes to the emergence of a subjectivity towards the modern "bourgeois". It discards subject matter from its traditional fixation with iconology and evokes different imaginations and semantizations - aspects that have not been sufficiently taken into account in previous research. The book is to be understood as an appeal for art history as a form of cultural science that analyses the semantic potential of art within discursive and social contemporary practices, and, at the same time, demonstrates its relevance today. Works by Rembrandt, Metsu, Vermeer, Hoogstraten, and others serve as exemplary case studies for addressing current debates in art history and cultural studies, such as representation of gender difference, relationship between text and image, and emotional discourse.

General

Imprint:	De Gruyter
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Edition Angewandte
Release date:	February 2015
First published:	2015
Authors:	Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat
Dimensions:	240 x 170mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	340
Edition:	Digital original
ISBN-13:	978-3-11-042690-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1600 to 1800 > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Painting & paintings > General
LSN:	3-11-042690-0
Barcode:	9783110426908

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