Gender, otherness, and culture in medieval and early modern art

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"This collection examines gender and otherness as tools to understand medieval and early modern art as products of their social environments. The essays, uniting up-and-coming and established scholars, explore both iconographic and stylistic similarities deployed to construct gender identity. The text analyzes a vast array of medieval artworks, including Dieric Bouts's Justice of Otto III, Albrecht Dürer's Feast of the Rose Garland, Rembrandt va...

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New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)) The New Middle Ages

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ISBN:

9783319650487

Description:

xvii, 244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:

"This project initially grew from a panel at the Southeastern College Art Association held in the fall of 2012 in Greensboro, North Carolina. The session was originally conceptualized as 'Gender and otherness in medieval art.'"--Page volume
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-240) and index

Contents:

Introduction to gender and otherness in medieval and early modern art / Sherry C.M. Lindquist
Facing Medusa : a thirteenth-century reliquary of King David / Beth Fischer
Picturing maternal anxiety in the miracle of the Jew of Bourges / Carlee A. Bradbury
Representing women and poverty in late medieval art / Holly Flora
Forms of testimony in Dirk Bouts's Justice of Otto III / Jessen Kelly
Dürer's Feast of the rose garland and the Scuola dei Tedeschi as strategies for mediating foreign, masculine identity / John R. Decker
"The Monster, death, becomes pregnant" : representations of motherhood in female transi tombs from Renaissance France / Marian Bleeke
Embodying gluttony as women's wildness : Rembrandt's Naked woman seated on a mound, c. 1629-1631 / Michelle Moseley-Christian

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2017950712

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2591427

Other Authors:

Bradbury, Carlee A., 1976- editor
Moseley-Christian, Michelle, editor
Southeastern College Art Association. Conference (2012 : Greensboro, N.C.). Gender and otherness in medieval art

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