Early Modern Visual Culture Representation, Race, and Empire in
Renaissance England Edited by Peter Erickson and Clark Hulse "As a
picture of what currently might be most profitably studied in the
visual culture of early modern England, and of how to conduct
scholarship in the field, the volume is exemplary. . . . It] treats
a culture for which there is considerable scholarly interest, but
from angles which have been woefully ignored up until now."--Joseph
Koerner, Harvard University An interdisciplinary group of scholars
applies the reinterpretive concept of "visual culture" to the
English Renaissance. Bringing attention to the visual issues that
have appeared persistently, though often marginally, in the newer
criticisms of the last decade, the authors write in a diversity of
voices on a range of subjects. Common among them, however, is a
concern with the visual technologies that underlie the
representation of the body, of race, of nation, and of empire.
Several essays focus on the construction and representation of the
human body--including an examination of anatomy as procedure and
visual concept, and a look at early cartographic practice to reveal
the correspondences between maps and the female body. In one essay,
early Tudor portraits are studied to develop theoretical analogies
and historical links between verbal and visual portrayal. In
another, connections in Tudor-Stuart drama are drawn between the
female body and the textiles made by women. A second group of
essays considers issues of colonization, empire, and race. They
approach a variety of visual materials, including sixteenth-century
representations of the New World that helped formulate a
consciousness of subjugation; the Drake Jewel and the myth of the
Black Emperor as indices of Elizabethan colonial ideology; and
depictions of the Queen of Sheba among other black women "present"
in early modern painting. One chapter considers the politics of
collecting. The aesthetic and imperial agendas of a Van Dyck
portrait are uncovered in another essay, while elsewhere, that same
portrait is linked to issues of whiteness and blackness as they are
concentrated within the ceremonies and trappings of the Order of
the Garter. All of the essays in "Early Modern Visual Culture"
explore the social context in which paintings, statues, textiles,
maps, and other artifacts are produced and consumed. They also
explore how those artifacts--and the acts of creating, collecting,
and admiring them--are themselves mechanisms for fashioning the
body and identity, situating the self within a social order,
defining the otherness of race, ethnicity, and gender, and
establishing relationships of power over others based on
exploration, surveillance, and insight. Peter Erickson, of the
Clark Art Institute, is author of "Patriarchal Structures in
Shakespeare's Drama" and "Rewriting Shakespeare, Rewriting
Ourselves." Clark Hulse is Professor of English and Art History at
the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of "The Rule of
Art: Literature and Painting in the Renaissance." New Cultural
Studies 2000 408 pages 7 x 10 133 illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-1734-6
Paper $32.50s 21.50 World Rights Fine Arts, Cultural Studies,
History Short copy: A collection of 10 original essays that explore
the social context in which paintings, statues, textiles, maps, and
other artifacts were produced and consumed in Renaissance England.
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