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Abject Eroticism in Northern Renaissance Art - The Witches and Femmes Fatales of Hans Baldung Grien

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Hans Baldung Grien, the most famous apprentice and close friend of German artist Albrecht Durer, was known for his unique and highly eroticised images of witches. In paintings and woodcut prints, he gave powerful visual expression to late medieval tropes and stereotypes, such as the poison maiden, venomous virgin, the Fall of Man, ''death and the maiden'' and other motifs and eschatological themes, which mingled abject and erotic qualities in the female body.Yvonne Owens reads these images against the humanist intellectual milieu of Renaissance Germany, showing how classical and medieval medicine and natural philosophy interpreted female anatomy as toxic, defective and dangerously beguiling. She reveals how Hans Baldung exploited this radical polarity to create moralising and titillating portrayals of how monstrous female sexuality victimised men and brought them low. Furthermore, these images issued from-and contributed to-the contemporary understanding of witchcraft as a heresy that stemmed from natural ''feminine defect,'' a concept derived from Aristotle. Offering new and provocative interpretations of Hans Baldung''s iconic witchcraft imagery, this book is essential reading for historians of art, culture and gender relations in the late medieval and early modern periods.>

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Auteurs Yvonne Owens, Yvonne (Victoria College of Art Owens, Owes Yvonne
Collaboration Joseph Leo Koerner (Préface)
Edition Bloomsbury Academic
 
Langues Anglais
Format d'édition Livre Relié
Sortie 26.11.2020
 
EAN 9781784537296
ISBN 978-1-78453-729-6
Pages 312
Dimensions 138 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
Thème International Library of Visual Culture
Catégorie Sciences humaines, art, musique > Art > Histoire de l'art

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