This book explores our corporeal connections to the past by
considering what three theoretical approaches—somaesthetics,
posthumanism, and the uncanny—may reveal about both premodern and
postmodern terms of embodiment. It takes as its point of departure
a selection of fifteenth-century northern European Books of
Hours—evocative objects designed at once to to inscribe social
status, to strengthen religious commitment, to entertain, to
stimulate emotions, and to encourage discomfiting self-scrutiny.
Studying their kaleidoscopically strange, moving, humorous,
disturbing, imaginative pages not only enables a window into
relationships among bodies, images, and things in the past, but
also in our own internet era, where surprisingly popular memes
drawn from such manuscripts constitute a part of our own visual
culture. In negotiating theoretical, post-theoretical, and
historical concerns, this book aims to contribute to an emerging
and much-needed intersectional social history of art. It will be of
interest to scholars working in art history, medieval studies,
Renaissance/early modern studies, gender studies, the history of
the book, posthumanism, aesthetics, and the body.
General
Imprint: |
Routledge
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Routledge Research in Art History |
Release date: |
2024 |
First published: |
2024 |
Authors: |
Sherry C.M. Lindquist
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Dimensions: |
246 x 174mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
304 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-367-50452-6 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
0-367-50452-9 |
Barcode: |
9780367504526 |
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