Picturing History – serie
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Dismembering the Male
Men's Bodies, Britain and the Great War
Häftad, 1999
457 kr
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That notions of femininity were seriously disrupted during the First World War has become obvious in recent years. But what happened to masculinity at the same time? Based on letters, diaries and oral histories, Dismembering the Male explores the impact of the ‘war to end all wars’ on the male …
Health and Illness
Images of Difference
Inbunden, 1995
208 kr
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Ours is a culture riddled with preoccupations about health and disease. In this timely study Sander L. Gilman demonstrates how images of beauty and ugliness have constructed a visual history which records the artificial boundaries that continue to divide ‘healthy’ bodies from ones that are ill. He …
Global Interests
Renaissance Art between East and West
Av Lisa Jardine, Jerry Brotton
Häftad, 2003
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
368 kr
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In this radical and wide-ranging reassessment of Renaissance art, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine examine the ways in which European culture came to define itself culturally and aesthetically in the years 1450 to 1550. Looking outwards for confirmation of who they were and of what defined them as …
Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China
Av Craig Clunas
Häftad, 1997
458 kr
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The sixteenth century in China was a period of rapid and unprecedented economic expansion. The period also saw a parallel growth in the sphere of cultural production,as a growing class of consumers benefited from the formation of one of the classic early modern consumer societies.Pictures were a …
Eyewitnessing
The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence
Av Peter Burke
Inbunden, 2001
296 kr
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Eyewitnessing evaluates the place of images among other kinds of historical evidence. By reviewing the many varieties of images by region, period and medium, and looking at the pragmatic uses of images (e.g. the Bayeux Tapestry, an engraving of a printing press, a reconstruction of a building), …
