Learned Love: Proceedings of the Emblem Project Utrecht Conference on Dutch Love Emblems and the Internet (November 2006).

Stronks, Els / Peter Boot (eds.)

ISBN 10: 9069845105 / ISBN 13: 9789069845104

Published by KNAW, 2007. 225 pp. / DANS Symposium Publications 2., 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Learned Love: Proceedings of the Emblem Project Utrecht Conference on Dutch Love Emblems and the Internet (November 2006).
• Publisher: KNAW, 2007. 225 pp. / DANS Symposium Publications 2.
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9069845105
• ISBN 13: 9789069845104
• Binding: Soft cover

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Synopsis

Emblem books, which feature combinations of images and text with a moral lesson for the reader, grew out of the Renaissance and were most popular in the Netherlands. Enigmatic, erudite, and often pious, Dutch love emblems synthesized the traditions of European visual and literary arts—and in turn influenced architecture, painting, poetry, and interior design for centuries to come.  Learned Love offers an introduction to this enthralling genre and celebrates the completion of Emblem Project Utrecht, an undertaking that digitized twenty-five of the most representative emblem books.
This unprecedented volume explores the delicate network of visual motifs and textual mottos that characterize Dutch love emblems. Learned Love demonstrates how emblem books form a web of closely interrelated references, which the contributors liken to the Internet, and traces the cutting-edge digitization project from inception to finish. This book will interest anyone intrigued by the fruitful gray areas between image and text, scholarship and technology.

 

 

About the Author

Els Stronks is a senior researcher and teacher in the Department of Dutch Studies at Utrecht University.
Peter Boot is a humanities computing consultant at the e-Research department of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Huygens Institute.