Bodies and Maps - Early Modern Personifications of the Continents (Hardcover)

Since antiquity, artists have visualized the known world through the female (sometimes male) body. In the age of exploration, America was added to figures of Europe, Asia, and Africa who would come to inhabit the borders of geographical visual imagery. In the abundance of personifications in print, painting, ceramics, tapestry, and sculpture, do portrayals vary between hierarchy and global human dignity? Are we witnessing the emergence of ethnography or of racism? Yet, as this volume shows, depictions of bodies as places betray the complexity of human claims and desires. Bodies and Maps: Early Modern Personifications of the Continents opens up questions about early modern politics, travel literature, sexualities, gender, processes of making, and the mobility of forms and motifs. Contributors are: Louise Arizzoli, Elisa Daniele, Hilary Haakenson, Elizabeth Horodowich, Maryanne Cline Horowitz, Ann Rosalind Jones, Paul H. D. Kaplan, Marion Romberg, Mark Rosen, Benjamin Schmidt, Chet Van Duzer, Bronwen Wilson, and Michael Wintle.

General

Imprint:	Brill
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Intersections, 73
Release date:	December 2020
First published:	2021
Editors:	Maryanne Cline Horowitz • Louise Arizzoli
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	408
ISBN-13:	978-90-04-38790-4
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Historical geography Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1400 to 1600 > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750 Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Maps, charts & atlases > General Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Cartography, geodesy & geographic information systems (GIS) > Map making & projections Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750 Promotions
LSN:	90-04-38790-0
Barcode:	9789004387904

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