Games and Game Playing in European Art and Literature, 16th-17th Centuries (Hardcover, 0)

This collection of essays examines the vogue for games and game playing as expressed in art and literature in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe. Focusing on games as a leitmotif of creative expression, these scholarly inquiries are framed as a response to two main questions: how were games used to convey special meanings in art and literature, and how did games speak to greater issues in European society? In chapters dealing with chess, playing cards, board games, dice, gambling, and outdoor and sportive games, essayists show how games were used by artists, writers, game makers and collectors, in the service of love and war, didactic and moralistic instruction, commercial enterprise, politics and diplomacy, and assertions of civic and personal identity. Offering innovative iconographical and literary interpretations, their analyses reveal how games"played, written about, illustrated and collected"functioned as metaphors for a host of broader cultural issues related to gender relations and feminine power, class distinctions and status, ethical and sexual comportment, philosophical and religious ideas, and conditions of the mind.

General

Imprint:	Amsterdam University Press
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Cultures of Play
Release date:	March 2019
Editors:	Robin O'bryan
Contributors:	Naomi Lebens • Megan Herrold • Kevin Chovanec • Patricia Rocco • Bethany Packard • Mark Kaethler • Giovanna Guidicini • Greger Sundin
Dimensions:	240 x 170 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	304
Edition:	0
ISBN-13:	978-9463728119
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1400 to 1600 > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	9463728112
Barcode:	9789463728119

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