Indecent Bodies in Early Modern Visual Culture /
Indecent Bodies in Early Modern Visual Culture /
ed. by Fabian Jonietz, Mandy Richter, Alison Stewart.
- 1 online resource (292 p.)
- Visual and Material Culture, 1300 –1700 ; 40 .
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Indecent Bodies in Early Modern Visual Culture: An Introduction -- 1. Taste, Lust, and the Male Body: Sexual Representations in Early Sixteenth- Century Northern Europe -- 2. Private Viewings: The Frankfurt Context of Sebald Beham’s Die Nacht -- 3. To Show or Not to Show? Marcantonio Raimondi and the Representation of Female Pubic Hair -- 4. Treating Bodily Impurities: Skin, Art, and Medicine -- 5. Indecent Exposure and Honourable Uncovering in Renaissance Portraits of Women -- 6. Lust in Translation: Agency, Sexuality, and Gender Configuration in Pauwels Franck’s Allegories of Love -- 7. ‘So This Guy Walks into a Forest…:’ Obscenity, Humour, Sex, and the Equine Body in Hans Baldung’s Horses in a Forest Woodcuts (1534) -- 8. Indecent Creativity and the Tropes of Human Excreta -- 9. ‘It All Turns to Shit’ – The Land of Cockaigne in Sixteenth-Century German Woodcuts -- 10. Noëls and Bodily Fluids: The Business of Low-Country Ceremonial Fountains -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
The life-like depiction of the body became a central interest and defining characteristic of the European Early Modern period that coincided with the establishment of which images of the body were to be considered ‘decent’ and representable, and which disapproved, censored, or prohibited. Simultaneously, artists and the public became increasingly interested in the depiction of specific body parts or excretions. This book explores the concept of indecency and its relation to the human body across drawings, prints, paintings, sculptures, and texts. The ten essays investigate questions raised by such objects about practices and social norms regarding the body, and they look at the particular function of those artworks within this discourse. The heterogeneous media, genres, and historical contexts north and south of the Alps studied by the authors demonstrate how the alleged indecency clashed with artistic intentions and challenges traditional paradigms of the historiography of Early Modern visual culture.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9789048551774
10.1515/9789048551774 doi
Art, European.
Human beings in art.
Obscenity (Aesthetics).
Art and Material Culture.
Early Modern Studies.
History, Art History, and Archaeology.
ART / History / Renaissance.
Decorum, Body History, Sex, Ugliness, Beauty.
N7625.5 / .I54 2023
704.9/42
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Indecent Bodies in Early Modern Visual Culture: An Introduction -- 1. Taste, Lust, and the Male Body: Sexual Representations in Early Sixteenth- Century Northern Europe -- 2. Private Viewings: The Frankfurt Context of Sebald Beham’s Die Nacht -- 3. To Show or Not to Show? Marcantonio Raimondi and the Representation of Female Pubic Hair -- 4. Treating Bodily Impurities: Skin, Art, and Medicine -- 5. Indecent Exposure and Honourable Uncovering in Renaissance Portraits of Women -- 6. Lust in Translation: Agency, Sexuality, and Gender Configuration in Pauwels Franck’s Allegories of Love -- 7. ‘So This Guy Walks into a Forest…:’ Obscenity, Humour, Sex, and the Equine Body in Hans Baldung’s Horses in a Forest Woodcuts (1534) -- 8. Indecent Creativity and the Tropes of Human Excreta -- 9. ‘It All Turns to Shit’ – The Land of Cockaigne in Sixteenth-Century German Woodcuts -- 10. Noëls and Bodily Fluids: The Business of Low-Country Ceremonial Fountains -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
The life-like depiction of the body became a central interest and defining characteristic of the European Early Modern period that coincided with the establishment of which images of the body were to be considered ‘decent’ and representable, and which disapproved, censored, or prohibited. Simultaneously, artists and the public became increasingly interested in the depiction of specific body parts or excretions. This book explores the concept of indecency and its relation to the human body across drawings, prints, paintings, sculptures, and texts. The ten essays investigate questions raised by such objects about practices and social norms regarding the body, and they look at the particular function of those artworks within this discourse. The heterogeneous media, genres, and historical contexts north and south of the Alps studied by the authors demonstrate how the alleged indecency clashed with artistic intentions and challenges traditional paradigms of the historiography of Early Modern visual culture.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9789048551774
10.1515/9789048551774 doi
Art, European.
Human beings in art.
Obscenity (Aesthetics).
Art and Material Culture.
Early Modern Studies.
History, Art History, and Archaeology.
ART / History / Renaissance.
Decorum, Body History, Sex, Ugliness, Beauty.
N7625.5 / .I54 2023
704.9/42