The Viewer As Poet The Renaissance Response To Art

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0271042370

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The Viewer as Poet: The Renaissance Response to Art by Anonim Pdf

In The Viewer as Poet, Norman Land provides the first comprehensive survey of ekphrasis in literature and art criticism from antiquity through the Renaissance. Land demonstrates, more fully than anyone has so far, that Renaissance art criticism assimilated the poetic tradition of ekphrasis while maintaining its function of analyzing works of art. Broadly speaking, the book shows that purely literary descriptions of art in poetry and prose contain a response like that found in art-critical ekphrasis. This is true in both antiquity and the Renaissance. The response to art in the elder Philostratus's Imagines, for example, is like that found in the descriptions of Apuleius and Lucian. Later Dante, Boccaccio, and Poliziano, among others, respond to imaginary works of art in their poetry in much the same way that Lorenzo Ghiberti, Aretino, and Vasari respond to real works in their writings. Land offers for the first time a synthetic description of the Renaissance response to, or experience of, art as embodied in literature, including art criticism. This book will form the basis for a deeper understanding of Renaissance art than we have now, for it provides not only a tool for viewing works of art as they were originally seen and experienced--that is, from a historical perspective--but also an outline of the tradition out of which modern writings about art grew.

Author : Judith Dundas
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : 0874134595

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Pencils Rhetorique by Judith Dundas Pdf

The painting and the poetry of the Renaissance shared the same goal of imitating nature. English poets of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries frequently underlined the force of ut pictura poesis - the ancient analogy between poetry and painting - by means of ekphrases, or descriptions of works of art, and through metaphors drawn from the visual arts. The present study is concerned with various kinds of allusions and what they can tell us not only about Renaissance poets' attitudes toward the visual arts, but also about their attitudes toward their own art of representation. In their poems lies a neglected source of art criticism. Since, in her view, the language of Renaissance criticism offers our best approach to an understanding of the poetry of the period, Judith Dundas begins her book with Sir Philip Sidney and ends it with John Dryden - the two poet-critics who most clearly enunciate the importance of the analogy between poetry and painting. Between these boundaries are chapters on Shakespeare, Spenser, Chapman, Jonson, a group of seventeenth-century minor poets, and Milton. The order of the chapters is partly chronological and partly thematic - depending on the interest of particular developments in the poets' allusions to the visual arts. The illustrations that accompany the text are chosen to suggest the background of pictorial reality against which the Renaissance poets were writing. They also show the painters' response to the accomplishments of poetry that are, in themselves, a response to nature. In including illustrations, Dundas does not wish to blur the distinction between poetry and painting, since it is in their very difference of medium that the arts achieve their triumphs. These triumphs led to the debate, known as the paragone, about which art is the superior; but, as Dundas notes, the significance of this debate is that it served as a topos for discussing the relationship of art to truth.

Author : Sheryl E. Reiss
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art patronage
ISBN : 9780271097626

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Beyond Isabella by Sheryl E. Reiss Pdf

Author : Babette Bohn,James M. Saslow
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 797 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781118391518

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A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art by Babette Bohn,James M. Saslow Pdf

A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art provides a diverse, fresh collection of accessible, comprehensive essays addressing key issues for European art produced between 1300 and 1700, a period that might be termed the beginning of modern history. Presents a collection of original, in-depth essays from art experts that address various aspects of European visual arts produced from circa 1300 to 1700 Divided into five broad conceptual headings: Social-Historical Factors in Artistic Production; Creative Process and Social Stature of the Artist; The Object: Art as Material Culture; The Message: Subjects and Meanings; and The Viewer, the Critic, and the Historian: Reception and Interpretation as Cultural Discourse Covers many topics not typically included in collections of this nature, such as Judaism and the arts, architectural treatises, the global Renaissance in arts, the new natural sciences and the arts, art and religion, and gender and sexuality Features essays on the arts of the domestic life, sexuality and gender, and the art and production of tapestries, conservation/technology, and the metaphor of theater Focuses on Western and Central Europe and that territory's interactions with neighboring civilizations and distant discoveries Includes illustrations as well as links to images not included in the book

Author : University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0826212417

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The Samuel H. Kress Study Collection at the University of Missouri by University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology Pdf

Land, Burton Dunbar, Judith Mann, Marjorie Och, and William E. Wallace."--BOOK JACKET. "This catalog will be accessible to both the art historian and the general reader."--Jacket.

Author : Richard Meek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351915946

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Narrating the Visual in Shakespeare by Richard Meek Pdf

This book examines Shakespeare's fascination with the art of narrative and the visuality of language. Richard Meek complicates our conception of Shakespeare as either a 'man of the theatre' or a 'literary dramatist', suggesting ways in which his works themselves debate the question of text versus performance. Beginning with an exploration of the pictorialism of Shakespeare's narrative poems, the book goes on to examine several moments in Shakespeare's dramatic works when characters break off the action to describe an absent, 'offstage' event, place or work of art. Meek argues that Shakespeare does not simply prioritise drama over other forms of representation, but rather that he repeatedly exploits the interplay between different types of mimesis - narrative, dramatic and pictorial - in order to beguile his audiences and readers. Setting Shakespeare's works in their literary and rhetorical contexts, and engaging with contemporary literary theory, the book offers new readings of Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, Hamlet, King Lear and The Winter's Tale. The book will be of particular relevance to readers interested in the relationship between verbal and visual art, theories of representation and mimesis, Renaissance literary and rhetorical culture, and debates regarding Shakespeare's status as a literary dramatist.

Author : Amy Golahny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015037282137

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The Eye of the Poet by Amy Golahny Pdf

"The ten essays in The Eye of the Poet examine poetic texts on real or imaginary painting and sculpture. Written by both art historians and literary historians, this collection is truly interdisciplinary between the sister arts of painting and poetry, or image and word. Methodologically diverse, the essays combine current critical approaches with historical ones. Unifying the essays is a prime emphasis of the analyses of viewer and reader, artist and audience, meaning in text and image, and criticism and its history. All of these concerns relate to ekphrasis as an interpretive strategy." "Providing a variety of case studies involving poetic texts from the Renaissance to the present, this collection responds to the need for intensive analysis of critical instances of poetic interpretation of imagery, and offers significant advances in the growing field of text/image study."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : David J. Roxburgh
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 9004113762

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Prefacing the Image by David J. Roxburgh Pdf

"Readership: All those interested in the history and theory of art, and histories of Persian literature and culture in the premodern Islamic world."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Maria Ruvoldt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521821606

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The Italian Renaissance Imagery of Inspiration by Maria Ruvoldt Pdf

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Author : Patricia Emison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136523434

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Low and High Style in Italian Renaissance Art by Patricia Emison Pdf

During the later 15th and in the 16th centuries pictures began to be made without action, without place for heroism, pictures more rueful than celebratory. In part, Renaissance art adjusted to the social and economic pressures with an art we may be hard pressed to recognize under that same rubric-an art not so much of perfected nature as simply artless. Granted, the heroic and epic mode of the Renaissance was that practiced most self-consciously and proudly. Yet it is one of the accomplishments of Renaissance art that heroic and epic subjects and style occasionally made way for less affirmative subjects and compositional norms, for improvisation away from the Vitruvian ideal. The limits of idealizing art, during the very period denominated as High Renaissance, is a topic that involves us in the history of class prejudice, of gender stereotypes, of the conceptualization of the present, of attitudes toward the ordinary, and of scruples about the power of sight Exploring the low style leads us particularly to works of art intended for display in private settings as personally owned objects, potentially as signs of quite personal emotions rather than as subscriptions to publicly vaunted ideologies. Not all of them show shepherds or peasants; none of them-not even Giorgione's La tempesta -is a classic pastoral idyll. The rosso stile is to be understood as more comprehensive than that. The issue is not only who is represented, but whether the work can or cannot be fit into the mold of a basically affirmative art.

Author : Rachel Eisendrath
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226516752

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Poetry in a World of Things by Rachel Eisendrath Pdf

We have become used to looking at art from a stance of detachment. In order to be objective, we create a “mental space” between ourselves and the objects of our investigation, separating internal and external worlds. This detachment dates back to the early modern period, when researchers in a wide variety of fields tried to describe material objects as “things in themselves”—things, that is, without the admixture of imagination. Generations of scholars have heralded this shift as the Renaissance “discovery” of the observable world. In Poetry in a World of Things, Rachel Eisendrath explores how poetry responded to this new detachment by becoming a repository for a more complex experience of the world. The book focuses on ekphrasis, the elaborate literary description of a thing, as a mode of resistance to this new empirical objectivity. Poets like Petrarch, Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare crafted highly artful descriptions that recovered the threatened subjective experience of the material world. In so doing, these poets reflected on the emergence of objectivity itself as a process that was often darker and more painful than otherwise acknowledged. This highly original book reclaims subjectivity as a decidedly poetic and human way of experiencing the material world and, at the same time, makes a case for understanding art objects as fundamentally unlike any other kind of objects.

Author : Konrad Eisenbichler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351545174

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The Cultural World of Eleonora di Toledo by Konrad Eisenbichler Pdf

Eleonora di Toledo was a powerful and influential woman who, over the course of nearly a quarter century (1539-62), contributed profoundly to the cultural flowering of ducal Florence. Her patronage of some of the leading artists of the time, her support of newly arrived Jesuit preachers, her involvement in charitable activities, her unfailing devotion to her husband and his policies, not to mention her successful farming and business ventures are only some of the areas where her influence was unambiguously exercised and felt. She also provided the House of Medici with a full stable of children to re-invigorate the failing family line, ensure male succession even in the face of unexpected calamities, and provide enough females to establish marriage connections with a variety of noble and ruling houses in Italy. In spite of all these contributions, Eleonora has attracted little attention from scholars. This apparent disinterest may be a factor of Eleonora's personal style, or of the bad press that, as a Spanish noblewoman, she quickly received from her Florentine subjects, or of modern antipathy for some of the basic characteristics of ducal Florence. An examination of her impact on Tuscany is long overdue. In fact, a fuller, more nuanced understanding of the duchess can shed a more profound light not only on her as a person, or on her impact on Tuscan culture in the sixteenth century, but also on the contribution of female consorts to the vitality of a successful early-modern state. The essays collected here bring together a variety of scholars working in various disciplines. While many of the articles take their cue from art history (a natural reflection of the innovative research recent art historians have carried out on the duchess), they also reach out towards other disciplines - political history, literature, spectacle, and religion to mention just a few. In so doing, they expand our understanding of Eleonora's place in her society and reveal a very complex,

Author : Professor Lisa M Rafanelli,Professor Erin E Benay
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781472444738

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Faith, Gender and the Senses in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art by Professor Lisa M Rafanelli,Professor Erin E Benay Pdf

Taking the Noli me tangere and Doubting Thomas episodes as a focal point, this study examines how visual representations of two of the most compelling and related Christian stories engaged with changing devotional and cultural ideals in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. By reuniting their visual examples with important, often little-known textual sources, the authors reveal a complex relationship between visual imagery, the senses, contemporary attitudes toward gender, and the shaping of belief.

Author : James Calum O’Neill
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000911909

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The Allegory of Love in the Early Renaissance by James Calum O’Neill Pdf

Described as ‘the most beautiful book ever printed’ previous research has focused on the printing history of the Hypnerotomachia and its copious literary sources. This monograph critically engages with the narrative of the Hypnerotomachia and with Poliphilo as a character within this narrative, placing it within its European literary context. Using narratological analysis, it examines the journey of Poliphilo and the series of symbolic, allegorical, and metaphorical experiences narrated by him that are indicative of his metamorphosing interiority. It analyses the relationship between Poliphilo and his external surroundings in sequences of the narrative pertaining to thresholds; the symbolic architectural, topographical, and garden forms and spaces; and Poliphilo’s transforming interior passions including his love of antiquarianism, language, and Polia, the latter of which leads to his elegiac description of lovesickness, besides examinations of numerosophical symbolism in number, form, and proportion of the architectural descriptions and how they relate to the narrative.

Author : James Elkins,Robert Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135902469

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Renaissance Theory by James Elkins,Robert Williams Pdf

Renaissance Theory presents an animated conversation among art historians about the optimal ways of conceptualizing Renaissance art, and the links between Renaissance art and contemporary art and theory. This is the first discussion of its kind, involving not only questions within Renaissance scholarship, but issues of concern to art historians and critics in all fields. Organized as a virtual roundtable discussion, the contributors discuss rifts and disagreements about how to understand the Renaissance and debate the principal texts and authors of the last thirty years who have sought to reconceptualize the period. They then turn to the issue of the relation between modern art and the Renaissance: Why do modern art historians and critics so seldom refer to the Renaissance? Is the Renaissance our indispensable heritage, or are we cut off from it by the revolution of modernism? The volume includes an introduction by Rebecca Zorach and two final, synoptic essays, as well as contributions from some of the most prominent thinkers on Renaissance art including Stephen Campbell, Michael Cole, Frederika Jakobs, Claire Farago, and Matt Kavaler.