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Renaissance Bodies: The Human Figure in English Culture C. 1540-1660

Renaissance Bodies: The Human Figure in English Culture C. 1540-1660

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Series: Picturing History

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ISBN10: 0948462086
ISBN13: 9780948462085
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: Jun 1 1997
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.16 Width: 6.19 Depth: 9.23
Language: English
Renaissance Bodies is a unique collection of views on the ways in which the human image has been represented in the arts and literature of English Renaissance society. The subjects discussed range from high art to popular culture - from portraits of Elizabeth I to polemical prints mocking religious fanaticism - and include miniatures, manners, anatomy, drama and architectural patronage. The authors, art historians and literary critics, reflect diverse critical viewpoints, and the 78 illustrations present a fascinating exhibition of the often strange and haunting images of the period.

With essays by John Peacock, Elizabeth Honig, Andrew and Catherine Belsey, Jonathan Sawday, Susan Wiseman, Ellen Chirelstein, Tamsyn Williams, Anna Bryson, Maurice Howard and Nigel Llewellyn.

The whole book ... presents a mirror of contemporary concerns with power, the merits and demerits of individualism, sex-roles, 'selves', the meaning of community and (even) conspicuous consumption.--The Observer

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