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Death, Torture and the Broken Body in European Art, 1300–1650: Visual Culture in Early Modernity

Editat de John R. Decker, Mitzi Kirkland-Ives
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 dec 2014
Bodies mangled, limbs broken, skin flayed, blood spilled: from paintings to prints to small sculptures, the art of the late Middle Ages and early modern period gave rise to disturbing scenes of violence. Many of these torture scenes recall Christ’s Passion and its aftermath, but the martyrdoms of saints, stories of justice visited on the wicked, and broadsheet reports of the atrocities of war provided fertile ground for scenes of the body’s desecration. Contributors to this volume interpret pain, suffering, and the desecration of the human form not simply as the passing fancies of a cadre of proto-sadists, but also as serving larger social functions within European society. Taking advantage of the frameworks established by scholars such as Samuel Edgerton, Mitchell Merback, and Elaine Scarry (to name but a few), Death, Torture and the Broken Body in European Art, 1300-1650 provides an intriguing set of lenses through which to view such imagery and locate it within its wider social, political, and devotional contexts. Though the art works discussed are centuries old, the topics of the essays resonate today as twenty-first-century Western society is still absorbed in thorny debates about the ethics and consequences of the use of force, coercion (including torture), and execution, and about whether it is ever fully acceptable to write social norms on the bodies of those who will not conform.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472433671
ISBN-10: 147243367X
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.84 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Visual Culture in Early Modernity

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Contents: Introduction: Spectacular unmaking: creative destruction, destructive creativity, John R. Decker. Part 1 Holy Violence, the Creation of Martyrs: Guido da Siena and the four modes of violence, Assaf Pinkus; The suffering Christ and visual mnemonics in Netherlandish devotions, Mitzi Kirkland-Ives; A chopped-off head on a golden plate: Jan Mostaert’s Head of Saint John the Baptist on a Plate Surrounded by Angels, Soetkin Vanhauwaert; Reviving martyrdom: interpretations of the catacombs in Cesare Baronio’s patronage, Kelley Magill; The authorizations of torture: John Bale writing Anne Askew, Natalia Khomenko. Part 2 Social Violence, the Creation of Civic Identities: Killing and dying at The Death of Decius Mus, Renzo Baldasso; Dracula, the Turks and the rhetoric of impaling in 15th- and 16th-century Germany, Heather Madar; Execution by image: visual spectacularism and iconoclasm in late medieval and early modern Europe, Allie Terry-Fritsch; A shameful spectacle: Claes Jansz. Visscher’s 1623 news prints of executed Dutch ‘Arminians’, Maureen Warren; Conclusion: closing thoughts, John R. Decker. Bibliography; Index.

Notă biografică

John R. Decker is Associate Professor of Art History at Georgia State University, USA, and author of The Technology of Salvation and the Art of Geertgen tot Sint Jans (Ashgate, 2009). Mitzi Kirkland-Ives is Associate Professor of Art and Design at Missouri State University, USA.

Recenzii

"Exploring the full range of social, cultural, spiritual, and political contexts in which these visual depictions of the brutalised body were created, the contributors seek to make sense of the cultures of torture and violence that validated such imagery. (…) the volume provides new insights into representations of torture in medieval and early modern art." – Matthew Firth, University of New England

Descriere

Bodies mangled, limbs broken, skin flayed, blood spilled: the art of the late medieval and early modern periods contains myriad examples of spectacular unmaking. The martyrdoms of saints, stories of justice, and reports of the atrocities of war provided fertile ground for scenes of bodily desecration. Contributors to this volume explore the larger social functions that pain, suffering, and the desecration of the human form played in European society.