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Studies in Imagery - The World Discovered (Hardcover)
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Studies in Imagery - The World Discovered (Hardcover)
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Dr. Jean Michel Massing is a Reader in the History of Art and a
Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. The first volume of Studies in
Imagery, Text and Images consists of 25 studies grouped under four
sections: Classical Art and its Nachleben; Symbolic Languages;
Saints and Devils; Comets, Dreams and Stars. The topics include the
Celto-Roman goddess Epona, the Calumny of Apelles and its
reconstructions, the Triumph of Caesar, proverb illustration, the
art of memory, emblematic and didactic imagery, the temptations of
St Anthony, as well as dreams and celestial phenomena. They span a
wide range of periods, from classical antiquity to the nineteenth
century. This volume, The World Discovered, deals variously with
the relationship of European with non-European cultures,
cartography in medieval and early modern times, the representation
of foreign lands and people, and the collecting of exotic
artefacts. A central theme involves the imagery of black Africans
from the Middle Ages up to the nineteenth century. Volume II
Contents: Introduction Cartography. Observations and Beliefs: The
World of the Catalan Atlas La mappemonde de Pierre Desceliers de
1550 The World Described. Hans Burgkmair's Depiction of Native
Africans Early European Images of America: The Ethnographic
Approach Albrecht Duerer's Irish Warriors and Peasants The image of
Africa and the iconography of lip-plated Africans in Pierre
Descelier's world map of 1550 The Image of Blackness. From Greek
Proverb to Soap Advert: Washing the Ethiopian Washing the Ethiopian
or the Semantics of an Impossibility Washing the Ethiopian, once
more Kunskammern and Collections. The Quest of the Exotic: Albrecht
Duerer in the Netherlands Pacific Cultures. Nicolas Joseph Hamann
and the Material Culture of the Gilbert Islands (Kiribati) In Arms
and Armour. Battles in the Gilbert Islands Index.
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