The Amusements Of Jan Steen

Author : Mariët Westermann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015045977967

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The Amusements of Jan Steen by Mariët Westermann Pdf

The Dutch painter Jan Steen (1626-1679) has long enjoyed a reputation for his dissolute life, redeemed only by a keen eye for the follies of his contemporaries and an exquisite ability to capture his observations in paint. Steen's paintings of unruly households, rambunctious revels, and wily seductresses have come to define our image of the delicious and immoral excesses of the Golden Age. But rather than simply recording the illicit pleasures of Dutch burghers and peasants, Steen transformed them into ambitious genre paintings that rival the peasant epics of Bruegel the Elder and jest with the genteel idylls of Vermeer and Terborch. By placing Steen within Dutch society and culture of the seventeenth century, Mariet Westermann shows how the contradictions and parallels between his life and his art were essential to his innovative achievements. In a detailed analysis of his career and audience, she suggests how Steen became a comic painter and why his pictures appealed to prosperous urban connoisseurs. Documented throughout with seventeenth-century jokes, poems, and plays, The Amusements of Jan Steen gives the first full account of Steen's creative relationship to comic literature and performance.

Author : Erika Langmuir
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300101317

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Imagining Childhood by Erika Langmuir Pdf

The images of children that abound in Western art do not simply mirror reality; they are imaginative constructs, representing childhood as a special stage of human life, or emblematic of the human condition itself. In a compelling book ranging widely across time, national boundaries, and genres from ancient Egyptian amulets to Picasso's Guernica, Erika Langmuir demonstrates that no historic period has a monopoly on the 'discovery of childhood'. Famous pictures by great artists, as well as barely known anonymous artefacts, illustrate not only Western society's perennially ambivalent attitudes to children, but also the many and varied functions that works of art have played throughout its history.

Author : Harry Berger
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780823225569

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Manhood, Marriage, and Mischief by Harry Berger Pdf

A study of the theory and practice of seventeenth-century Dutch group portraits, Manhood, Marriage, and Mischief offers a account of the genre's comic and ironic features, which it treats as comments on the social context of portrait sitters who are husbands and householders as well as members of civic and proto-military organizations. The introduction picks out anomalous touches by which Rembrandt problematizes standard group portrait motifs in The Night Watch: a shooter who fires his musket into the company; two girls who appear to be moving through the company in the wrong direction; guardsmen who appear to be paying little or no attention to their leader's enthusiastic gesture of command. Were the patrons and sitters aware of or even complicit in staging the anomalies? If not, did the painter get away with a subversive parody of militia portrait conventions at the sitters' expense? Parts One and Two respond to these questions at several levels: first, by analyzing the aesthetic structure of group portraiture as a genre; second, by reviewing the conflicting accounts modern scholars give of the civic guard company as an institution; third, by marking the effect on civic guardsmen of a mercantile economy that relied heavily on wives and mothers to keep the homefires burning. Two phenomena persistently recur in the portraits under discussion: competitive posing and performance anxiety. Part Three studies these phenomena in portraits of married couples and families. Finally, Part Four returns to examine them in The Night Watch in the light of the first three parts. The result is an interpretation that reads Rembrandt's painting both as a deliberate parody by the sitters and as theartist's covert parody of the sitters.

Author : Linda Stone-Ferrier
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300259117

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The Little Street by Linda Stone-Ferrier Pdf

An interdisciplinary study of the central role that the neighborhood played in seventeenth-century Dutch painting and culture The neighborhood was a principal organizing structure of Dutch cities in the seventeenth century, and each had its own regulations, administrators, social networks, events, and diverse population of residents. Linda Stone-Ferrier argues that this sense of community contributed to the steady demand for pictures portraying aspects of this culture. These paintings, by such artists as Jan Steen and Pieter de Hooch, reinforced the role and values of the neighborhood. Through close readings of such works--by Steen and De Hooch and, among others, Gerrit Dou, Gabriel Metsu, Jacob van Ruisdael, and Johannes Vermeer--Stone-Ferrier deftly considers social history, urban studies, anthropology, and women's studies in this penetrating exploration. Her new interpretations of seventeenth-century Dutch painting across genres--scenes of streets, domesticity, professions, and festivity--challenge existing paradigms in Dutch art history.

Author : Wayne Franits
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351546225

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Dutch Art of the Seventeenth Century by Wayne Franits Pdf

Despite the tremendous number of studies produced annually in the field of Dutch art over the last 30 years or so, and the strong contemporary market for works by Dutch masters of the period as well as the public's ongoing fascination with some of its most beloved painters, until now there has been no comprehensive study assessing the state of research in the field. As the first study of its kind, this book is a useful resource for scholars and advanced students of seventeenth-century Dutch art, and also serves as a springboard for further research. Its 19 chapters, divided into three sections and written by a team of internationally renowned art historians, address a wide variety of topics, ranging from those that might be considered "traditional" to others that have only drawn scholarly attention comparatively recently.

Author : Tamar Cholcman,Assaf Pinkus
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443883498

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The Sides of the North by Tamar Cholcman,Assaf Pinkus Pdf

The Sides of the North is dedicated to Yona Pinson’s extensive scholarly work on Northern Renaissance art, from Hieronymus Bosch’s and Peter Breughel’s oeuvre, through lessons of morality, the Fool’s imagery, gender problems in the representation of the “femme fatale” bourgeois seductress, to emblem studies, and up to her most recent project on “Mirror, Moralization and Irony” in Bosch’s painting. In tribute to her research, this volume offers new insights into her fields of interest from a number of leading scholars in these disciplines. Larry Silver reconstructs a recently found Adoration of the Magi Triptych by Bosch, while Mara R. Wade, Michael J. Giordano and Kathryn M. Rudy discuss aspects of self-fashioning through portraiture, emblem books, and manuscripts and their spiritual and performative qualities. Nurith Kenaan-Kedar and Liad Rinot delve into problems of marginality in Gothic sculpture, as well as in Robert Campain’s and Jan van Eyck’s paintings. Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes, Ruth Strauss and Juliette Roding explore the topic of artistic identities and intentionalism, and political ideologies in various media, such as in small-scale sculptures and paintings. Just as Yona Pinson’s research diversified from iconographical studies to post-modern reflections on such issues as marginality and folly, this anthology presents a broad spectrum not only of the diverse topics, genres, and media of Northern Renaissance art, but also, and particularly, an overview of the methodological range of art scholarship of recent decades, thus offering readers insights into the intricate sides of contemporary Netherlandish visual culture.

Author : Theodore L. Prescott
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780802828187

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A Broken Beauty by Theodore L. Prescott Pdf

"A Broken Beauty examines recent ideas about beauty and the human image in light of the Western Classical and Christian traditions of the human figure. The book's five essays trace the historical fusion of Classical and Christian ideas about beauty, as well as their rejection by much modern art, provocatively suggesting that the difficulties encountered by the beautiful in modernity may be related to a loss of faith." "This volume culminates in a look at fifteen postmodern North American artists whose haunting pieces unite brokenness and beauty in a way that is uncommon within contemporary art. These artists, like the book's essayists, find significance in beauty that is cultivated amidst the perennial human struggle for goodness, meaning, and dignity."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Marshall Grossman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134134717

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Reading Renaissance Ethics by Marshall Grossman Pdf

Bringing together some of the best current practitioners of historical and formal criticism, Reading Renaissance Ethics assesses the ethical performance of renaissance texts as historical agents in their time and in ours. Exploring the nature and mechanics of cultural agency, the book explains with greater clarity just what is at stake when canon-formation, aesthetic evaluation and curricular reform are questioned and revised. Taking seriously the question of what to read requires us to consider exactly what it is that we do when we read and when we write about our reading. Reading Renaissance Ethics asks what sorts of events took place when Renaissance texts were first read and how this differs from the way we read and teach them now.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783830965534

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by Anonim Pdf

Author : ArthurJ. DiFuria
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351565783

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Genre Imagery in Early Modern Northern Europe by ArthurJ. DiFuria Pdf

Exploring the rich variety of pictorial rhetoric in early modern northern European genre images, this volume deepens our understanding of genre's place in early modern visual culture. From 1500 to 1700, artists in northern Europe pioneered the category of pictures now known as genre, portrayals of people in ostensibly quotidian situations. Critical approaches to genre images have moved past the antiquated notion that they portray uncomplicated 'slices of life,' describing them instead as heavily encoded pictorial essays, laden with symbols that only the most erudite contemporary viewers and modern iconographers could fully comprehend. These essays challenge that limiting binary, revealing a more expansive array of accessible meanings in genre's deft grafting of everyday scenarios with a rich complex of experiential, cultural, political, and religious references. Authors deploy a variety of approaches to detail genre's multivalent relations to older, more established pictorial and literary categories, the interplay between the meaning of the everyday and its translation into images, and the multifaceted concerns genre addressed for its rapidly expanding, unprecedentedly diverse audience.

Author : Arthur K. (jr) Wheelock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:842817880

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Jan Steen by Arthur K. (jr) Wheelock Pdf

Author : John Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : Painters
ISBN : GENT:900000219933

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Jan Steen, Gerard Treburg, H. E. vander Neer, Peter de Hooge, Gonzales Cocques, Gabriel Metsu, Gaspar Netscher, A. vander Werf, Nicholas Maes, Godfrey Schalcken by John Smith Pdf

Author : DavidR. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351554978

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Parody and Festivity in Early Modern Art by DavidR. Smith Pdf

Dwelling on the rich interconnections between parody and festivity in humanist thought and popular culture alike, the essays in this volume delve into the nature and the meanings of festive laughter as it was conceived of in early modern art. The concept of 'carnival' supplies the main thread connecting these essays. Bound as festivity often is to popular culture, not all the topics fit the canons of high art, and some of the art is distinctly low-brow and occasionally ephemeral; themes include grobianism and the grotesque, scatology, popular proverbs with ironic twists, and a wide range of comic reversals, some quite profound. Many hinge on ideas of the world upside down. Though the chapters most often deal with Northern Renaissance and Baroque art, they spill over into other countries, times, and cultures, while maintaining the carnivalesque air suggested by the book's title.

Author : Martha Moffitt Peacock
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004432154

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Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives by Martha Moffitt Peacock Pdf

A novel and female empowering interpretive approach to these artistic archetypes in her analysis of Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age.

Author : Ann Sutherland Harris
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1856694151

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Seventeenth-century Art and Architecture by Ann Sutherland Harris Pdf

Encompassing the socio-political, cultural background of the period, this title takes a look at the careers of the Old Masters and many lesser-known artists. The book covers artistic developments across six countries and examines in detail many of the artworks on display.