{"product_id":"painting-and-politics-in-northern-margaret-d-carroll-9780271029559","title":"Painting and Politics in Northern Europe: Van Eyck, Bruegel, Rubens, and Their Contemporaries","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003ePainting and Politics in Northern Europe\u003c\/i\u003e offers a chronological account of political engagement in works by the early modern Northern European painters Jan van Eyck, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Peter Paul Rubens, and Frans Snyders. Offering fresh interpretations of canonical paintings, Margaret Carroll illustrates how these artists registered their pictorial responses to the political events and debates of their day. The imagery of gender and power was often intertwined with these debates. Considering a range of works, including Van Eyck's \u003ci\u003eArnolfini Portrait\u003c\/i\u003e, Bruegel's\u003ci\u003e Netherlandish Proverbs\u003c\/i\u003e, and Rubens's Life of Marie de M馘icis series, Carroll examines the ways in which these Netherlandish painters seized on that imagery and creatively transformed it into the materials of art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe narrative follows the way painters responded to the emergence of \"modern\" theories of politics and natural law from the classical and medieval tradition. Carroll begins by addressing paintings that identify the natural order with consensual social relations in a stable political hierarchy, then turns to paintings that stress the struggle for mastery in a perilous and unstable world. These paintings may be valued not merely as historical artifacts of a bygone era but as interventions in a cultural discourse that continues to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Margaret D. Carroll\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0271029552\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271029559\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.80h x 8.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Margaret D. Carroll","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44075992809727,"sku":"9780271029559","price":53.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d4a64e77-690b-4303-adc8-bac76295757e.jpg?v=1685462582","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/painting-and-politics-in-northern-margaret-d-carroll-9780271029559","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}