Refiguring the Real : Picture and Modernity in Word and Image, 1400 - 1700 (Princeton Legacy Library, 1778)

Braider, Christopher:

ISBN 10: 0691069573 / ISBN 13: 9780691069579

Published by Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1993

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XIV, 314 Seiten neuwertiger Zustand, wirkt ungelesen, minimale Lagerspuren am Schutzumschlag, kleine Bleistiftnotiz im Vorsatz, Seiten zart nachgedunkelt Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 820.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Refiguring the Real : Picture and Modernity in Word and Image, 1400 - 1700 (Princeton Legacy Library, 1778)
• Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691069573
• ISBN 13: 9780691069579
• Binding: Leinen
• Condition: Wie neu
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 820 grams
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Synopsis

In a major analysis of pictorial forms from the late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, Christopher Braider argues that the painted image provides a metaphor and model for all other modes of expression in Western culture―particularly literature, philosophy, religion, and science. Because critics have conventionally explained visual images in terms of verbal texts (Scripture, heroic poetry, and myth), they have undervalued the impact of the pictorial naturalism practiced by painters from the fifteenth century onward and the fundamentally new conception of reality it conveys. By reinterpreting modern Western experience in light of northern "descriptive art," the author enriches our understanding of how both painted and written cultural texts shape our perceptions of the world at large. Throughout Braider draws on works by such painters as van der Weyden, Bruegel the Elder, Steen, Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Poussin, and addresses such topics as the Incarnation of the Word in Christ, the elegiac foundations of Enlightenment aesthetics, and the rivalry between northern and southern art. His goal is not only to reexamine important aesthetic issues but also to offer a new perspective on the general intellectual and cultural history of the modern West.

Originally published in 1993.

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