The Anthropomorphic Lens

Anthropomorphism, Microcosmism and Analogy in Early Modern Thought and Visual Arts
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-26170-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 34, 524 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 921 g

Reihe: Intersections

Anthropomorphism – the projection of the human form onto the every aspect of the world – closely relates to early modern notions of analogy and microcosm. What had been construed in Antiquity as a ready metaphor for the order of creation was reworked into a complex system relating the human body to the body of the world. Numerous books and images - cosmological diagrams, illustrated treatises of botany and zoology, maps, alphabets, collections of ornaments, architectural essays – are entirely constructed on the anthropomorphic analogy. Exploring the complexities inherent in such work, the interdisciplinary essays in this volume address how the anthropomorphic model is fraught with contradictions and tensions, between magical and rational, speculative and practical thought.
Contributors include Pamela Brekka, Anne-Laure van Bruaene, Ralph Dekoninck, Agnès Guiderdoni, Christopher P. Heuer, Sarah Kyle, Walter S. Melion, Christina Normore, Elizabeth Petcu, Bertrand Prevost, Bret Rothstein, Paul Smith, Miya Tokumitsu, Michel Weemans, and Elke Werner.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in the cultural history of images, microcosmism, analogy, and problems of figuration in early modern Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Melion, Walter

Weemans, Michel

Rothstein, Bret

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstpsychologie und -soziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Michel Weemans and Bertrand Prévost, Introduction

Anthropomorphism and the Order of Things

Delineating the Boundaries of the Human
• Anne-Laure van Bruaene, "Revolting Beasts. Animal Satire and Animal Trials in the Dutch Revolt"
• Christina Normore, "Monkey in the Middle"
• Paul J. Smith, "Landscape and Body in Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel"
• Miya Tokumitsu, "The Migrating Cannibal. Anthropophagy at Home and at the Edge of the World"

Empathy and the Constitution of the Self
• Nathalie de Brézé, "Picturing the Soul, Living and Departed"
• Marisa Bass, "Patience Grows. The First Roots of Joris Hoefnagel's Emblematic Art"
• Aneta Georgievska-Shine, "The Album amicorum and the Kaleidoscope of the Self. Notes on the Friendship Book of Jacob Heyblocq"

Visualizing the Body Politic
• Pamela Merrill Brekka, "Picturing the 'Living' Tabernacle in the Antwerp Polyglot Bible"
• Sarah R. Kyle, "A New Heraldry. Vision and Rhetoric in the Carrara Herbal"
• Elke Anna Werner, "Anthropomorphic Maps. On the Aesthetic Form and Political Function of Body Metaphors in the Early Modern Europe Discourse"

Figuration and Semiotic Potential

Anthropomorphosis and Its Critics
• Ralph Dekoninck, "Between Fiction and Reality. The Image Body in the Early Modern Theory of the Symbol"

Anthropomorphosis and Its Conditions
• Walter S. Melion, "Prodigies of Nature, Wonders of the Hand: Political Portents and Divine Artifice in Haarlem ca. 1600"
• Elizabeth J. Petcu, "Anthropomorphizing the Orders. 'Terms' of Architectural Eloquence in the Northern Renaissance"
• Bertrand Prévost, "Visage-paysage. Problème de peinture"

Figuring the Impossible
• Christopher P. Heuer, "Nobody's Bruegel"
• Larry Silver, "Morbid Fascination. Death by Bruegel"

Metamorphic Figuration
• Bret Rothstein, "Jan van Hemessen's Anatomy of Parody"

Michel Weemans, "The Smoke of Sacrifice. Anthropomorphism and Figure in Karel van Mallery's Sacrifice of Cain and Abel for Louis Richeome's Tableaux sacrez (1601)"

Index nominum

Über Autor(innen)

Michel Weemans, Ph.D. Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, is Chercheur-Qualifie at the Ecole nationale superieure d'art de Bourges. His exhibition catalogues include Le paysage extravagant (2009) and Fables du paysage flamand: Bosch, Bles, Brueghel, Bril (2012). He is co-editor of Paysage sacré/Sacred Landscape (2011).

Walter S. Melion, Ph.D. (1988) in Art History, University of California, Berkeley, is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University. His books include Karel van Mander's 'Schilder-Boeck': Shaping the Netherlandish Canon (1991) and The Meditative Art: Studies in the Northern Devotional Print, 1550-1625 (2009), along with numerous edited volumes.

Bret Rothstein, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, is Associate Professor of the History of Art at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of Sight and Spirituality in Early Netherlandish Painting (Cambridge, 2005), as well as various articles on the history of visual culture.