Durer and His Culture

Zusammenfassung This collection sets Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) in the cultural context of the early sixteenth- century. Topics include views of nature and attitudes to collecting, patriotism, and morality, witchcraft, and the rituals of courtship, the power of visual images, and the role of censorship. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Dürer and his culture: an introduction Dagmar Eichberger, and Charles Zika; Part I. Artist and Environment: 1. Naturalia and artefacta: Dürer's nature drawings and early collecting Dagmar Eichberger; 2. Germanic patriotism in the age of Dürer Larry Silver; 3. The Michelfeldt Tapestry and contemporary European literature Wim Hüsken; Part II. Image and Audience: 4. Ways of seeing in the age of Dürer Bob Scribner; 5. Dürer's witch and riding women: shaping moral order in sixteenth-century Germany Charles Zika; Part III. Communal Culture and Representation: 6. Tokens of affection: the meanings of love in sixteenth-century Germany Lyndal Roper; 7. The censorship of images in Reformation Germany 1520-1560 Christiane Andersson; Part IV. Dürer and the Canon: 8. Changing German perceptions of the historical role of Albrecht Dürer Paul Münch; 9. The making of Dürer in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria Irena Zdanowicz; Select bibliography: Albrecht Dürer (1971-1997); Dagmar Eichberger and Charles Zika; Index.

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• Authors: Dagmar Eichberger, Dagmar (Universitat des Saarlandes Eichberger, Dagmar Zika Eichberger
• Assisted by: Eichberger Dagmar (Editor), Dagmar Eichberger (Editor), Eichberger Dagmar (Editor), Charles Zika (Editor), Zika Charles (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.02.2005
• EAN: 9780521619882
• ISBN: 978-0-521-61988-2
• No. of pages: 276
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; ART / General, Painting & paintings, Paintings and painting