Bodies and Maps: Early Modern Personifications of the Continents by Horowitz, Maryanne Cline

Bodies and Maps: Early Modern Personifications of the Continents (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004387904)

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Bodies and Maps: Early Modern Personifications of the Continents by Horowitz, Maryanne Cline

Bodies and Maps: Early Modern Personifications of the Continents

$190.00
Bodies and Maps: Early Modern Personifications of the Continents by Horowitz, Maryanne Cline

Bodies and Maps: Early Modern Personifications of the Continents

$190.00
Format: Hardcover
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Since antiquity, artists have visualized the known world through the female (sometimes male) body. In the age of exploration, America was added to figures of Europe, Asia, and Africa who would come to inhabit the borders of geographical visual imagery. In the abundance of personifications in print, painting, ceramics, tapestry, and sculpture, do portrayals vary between hierarchy and global human dignity? Are we witnessing the emergence of ethnography or of racism? Yet, as this volume shows, depictions of bodies as places betray the complexity of human claims and desires. Bodies and Maps: Early Modern Personifications of the Continents opens up questions about early modern politics, travel literature, sexualities, gender, processes of making, and the mobility of forms and motifs.

Contributors are: Louise Arizzoli, Elisa Daniele, Hilary Haakenson, Elizabeth Horodowich, Maryanne Cline Horowitz, Ann Rosalind Jones, Paul H. D. Kaplan, Marion Romberg, Mark Rosen, Benjamin Schmidt, Chet Van Duzer, Bronwen Wilson, and Michael Wintle.

Author: Maryanne Cline Horowitz
ISBN-10: 9004387900
ISBN-13: 9789004387904
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 12/10/2020
Pages: 436
Format: Hardcover
By Maryanne Cline Horowitz
By Maryanne Cline Horowitz
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Maryanne Cline Horowitz, Ph.D. (1970), is Professor of History, Occidental College, and Associate, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. She won the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History of the American Philosophical Society for her Seeds of Virtue and Knowledge (Princeton, 1998), and served as Editor-in-Chief of the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005).

Louise Arizzoli, Ph.D. (2013) is an Instructional Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Mississippi. She has published on the iconography of the Four Continents in the arts and on the history of collections and the art market, including "James Hazen Hyde and the Allegory of the Four Continents: A Research Collection for an Amateur Art Historian" (The Journal for the History of Collections, 2013).

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