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Franz Xaver Winterhalter, one of the most sought-after and
productive artists of the 19th century, developed various types of
portraits in strategically composed portraiture programmes, which
shaped the image of rulers and rulers’ wives across different
political systems. This example is taken in order to discuss how
recognition of rulership is conferred in concrete terms, and to
what extent the visualisation of claims to power is dependent on
office and gender. The author identifies three reproducible
patterns of legitimation, defining new terms of investigation -
fashion, regalia and virtue portraits - that will assist future
research across epochs. Fundamental study on portraiture of female
rulers New perspectives on one of the most successful and
productive 19th century court artists Women in positions of
political leadership
The portrait has been characterized as an art-form of
contradictions since its very beginnings to the art of today. The
genre is faced with the challenge of recording an individual and
his or her character as a strictly specified object and, at the
same time, of creating a work of art in its own right. Hence,
various forms of portraiture are faced with an aesthetic conflict
of solutions that oscillate between similarity to the subject and
greatly abstracted works of invention. This volume collects the
contributions of the homonymous "International Warburg College" of
the University of Hamburg and is dedicated to the genre of
portraiture across various media as well as its entire thematic
range. Case studies by international authors examine the broad
range of issues involved in this genre: from the exploration of the
individual in the portrait, to the political function of the genre;
from the stylization of the individual to mask, role, and type; and
to the artists' strategies of presentation in the self-portrait.
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