TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gobin,Anuradha
TI  - Picturing Punishment: The Spectacle and Material Afterlife of the Criminal Body in the Dutch Republic 
SN  - 9781487503802
AV  - N8237.55 .G63 2021
U1  - 704.9/4930336 23/eng/20230216
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Toronto
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Art, Dutch
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Themes, motives
KW  - Crime
KW  - Netherlands
KW  - History
KW  - Criminals
KW  - Death
KW  - Dead in art
KW  - Justice in art
KW  - Prosecution in art
KW  - Punishment in art
KW  - Punishment
KW  - ART / History / Renaissance
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Dutch Republic
KW  - Renaissance
KW  - afterlife
KW  - art and crime
KW  - art history
KW  - criminals
KW  - deviance
KW  - early modern
KW  - execution rituals
KW  - gallows
KW  - history of crime
KW  - material culture
KW  - public spectacles
KW  - punishment
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1 Structures of Power: Constructing and Publicizing the New Amsterdam Town Hall --; 2 Procession and Execution Rituals: Moving through the New Amsterdam Town Hall --; 3 Disposal and Display: The Criminal Corpse on the Gallows --; 4 Subversion and Symbolic Transformation: Recreation, Ambush, and Humour at the Gallows --; 5 Serving the Public Good: Reform, Prestige, and the Productive Criminal Body in Amsterdam --; 6 The Transformation of Touch: Flayed Skin and the Visual and Material Afterlife of the Criminal Body in the Leiden Anatomical Theatre --; 7 The Symbolism of Skin: Illustrating the Flayed Body --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Picturing Punishment examines representations of criminal bodies as they moved in, through, and out of publicly accessible spaces in the city during punishment rituals in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. Once put to death, the criminal cadaver did not come to rest. Its movement through public spaces indicated the potent afterlife of the deviant body, especially its ability to transform civic life. Focusing on material culture associated with key sites of punishment, Anuradha Gobin argues that the circulation of visual media related to criminal punishments was a particularly effective means of generating discourse and formulating public opinion, especially regarding the efficacy of civic authority. Certain types of objects related to criminal punishments served a key role in asserting republican ideals and demonstrating the ability of officials to maintain order and control. Conversely, the circulation of other types of images, such as inexpensive paintings and prints, had the potential to subvert official messages. As Gobin shows, visual culture thus facilitated a space in which potentially dissenting positions could be formulated while also bringing together seemingly disparate groups of people in a quest for new knowledge. Combining a diverse array of sources including architecture, paintings, prints, anatomical illustrations, and preserved body parts, Picturing Punishment demonstrates how the criminal corpse was reactivated, reanimated, and in many ways reintegrated into society
UR  - https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487518806
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487518806
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781487518806/original
ER  -