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Household Servants and Slaves - A Visual History, 1300-1700 (Hardcover)
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Household Servants and Slaves - A Visual History, 1300-1700 (Hardcover)
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The first book-length study of household servants and slaves,
exploring a visual history over 400 years and four continents The
first book-length study of both images of ordinary household
workers and their material culture, Household Servants and Slaves:
A Visual History, 1300-1700 covers four hundred years and four
continents, facilitating a better understanding of the changes in
service that occurred as Europe developed a monetary economy,
global trade, and colonialism. Diane Wolfthal presents new
interpretations of artists including the Limbourg brothers,
Albrecht Durer, Paolo Veronese, and Diego Velazquez, but also
explores numerous long-neglected objects, including independent
portraits of ordinary servants, servant dolls and their miniature
cleaning utensils, and dummy boards, candlesticks, and tablestands
in the form of servants and slaves. Wolfthal analyzes the
intersection of class, race, and gender while also interrogating
the ideology of service, investigating both the material conditions
of household workers' lives and the immaterial qualities with which
they were associated. If images repeatedly relegated servants to
the background, then this book does the reverse: it foregrounds
these figures in order to better understand the ideological and
aesthetic functions that they served.
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