The First Viral Images - Maerten de Vos, Antwerp Print, and the Early Modern Globe

Examines internet virality as a critical framework for considering early modern artworks' global mobility and replication. Explores the role of artistic labor, gatekeepers, infrastructures, and social networks to reassess art's role in processes of globalization.

About the author

Stephanie Porras is Professor of Art History at Tulane University. She is the author of Pieter Bruegel’s Historical Imagination and Art of the Northern Renaissance, the former also published by Penn State University Press.

Summary

Examines internet virality as a critical framework for considering early modern artworks’ global mobility and replication. Explores the role of artistic labor, gatekeepers, infrastructures, and social networks to reassess art’s role in processes of globalization.

Product details

• Authors: Stephanie Porras, Stephanie (Assistant Professor Porras
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.02.2024
• EAN: 9780271092843
• ISBN: 978-0-271-09284-3
• Dimensions: 203 mm x 254 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 862 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Raster, farbig
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Europe, ART / Subjects & Themes / Religious, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, ART / Prints, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Prints & printmaking, Renaissance art, History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800, ART / History / European / Renaissance, ART / History / European / Baroque & Rococo