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Others and Outcasts in Early Modern Europe - Picturing the Social Margins (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Others and Outcasts in Early Modern Europe - Picturing the Social Margins (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Others and Outcasts in Early Modern Europe is the first book to
focus directly on the visual representation of marginal and outcast
people in early modern Europe. The volume offers a comprehensive
and groundbreaking analysis of a wide range of images featuring
Jews and Turks, roguish beggars, syphilitics and plague victims,
the 'deserving poor', toothpullers, beggar philosophers, black
slaves, itinerant actors and street hawkers. Its broad geographical
and chronological scope allows the reader to build a wider picture
of visual strategies and conventions for the depiction of the poor
and the marginal as they developed in countries such as Germany,
the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Britain and Ireland. While such
types had often been depicted in earlier centuries, the essays show
that they came to play a newly significant and formative role in
European art between 1500 and 1750. Marking a clear departure from
much previous scholarship on the subject - which has tended to view
representations of poverty as passive by-products of non-visual
forces - these essays place the image itself at the centre of the
investigation. The studies show that many depictions of socially
marginal people operated in essentially hegemonic fashion, as a way
of controlling or fixing the social and moral identity of those
living on the edge. At the same time, they also reveal the
inventiveness and originality of many early modern artists in
dealing with this subject matter, showing how the sophisticated
visuality of their representations could render meaning ambiguous
in relation to such controlling discourses.
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