Fictions of the pose : Rembrandt against the Italian Renaissance /
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| Author / Creator: | Berger, Harry. |
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| Imprint: | Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2000. |
| Description: | xxi, 624 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4253462 |
Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. Early Modern Technologies and Politics of Representation and Their Consequences. 1. Technologies: The System of Early Modern Painting. 2. Politics: The Apparatus of Commissioned Portraiture. 3. Consequences: Sprezzatura and the Anxiety of Self-Representation
- Pt. 2. Facing the Gaze. 4. The Face as Index of the Mind: Art Historians and the Physiognomic Fallacy. 5. Physiognomy, Mimetic Idealism, and Social Change. 6. Elias on Physiognomic Skepticism: Homo Clausus and the Anxiety of Representation. 7. Lacan on the Narcissism of Orthopsychic Desire. 8. Fictions of the Pose (1): The Fiction of Objectivity. 9. Fictions of the Pose (2): Representing Orthopsychic Desire
- Pt. 3. The Embarrassment of Poses: On Dutch Portraiture. 10. Local Matters. 11. The Posography of Embarrassment: Representational Strategies in a Decentralized Class Society. 12. Methodological Interlude I: Toward Group Portraiture. 13. Rembrandt's Embarrassment: An Anatomy of Group Portraiture
- Pt. 4. Rembrandt's Looking-Glass Theater. 14. Methodological Interlude II: On Self-Portraits. 15. Good Boys and Bad: Orthopsychic Comedy in the Early Self-Portraits. 16. Marking Time: Revisionary Allusion in Specular Fictions. 17. Rembrandt as Burgher: Waiting for Maerten Soolmans. 18. Methodological Interlude III: Texture Versus Facture. 19. Specular Fictions in Two Etchings. 20. Married, with Peacock: Saskia in Rembrandt's Looking-Glass Theater. 21. Methodological Interlude IV: On Revisionary Allusion - Rembrandt Against the Italian Renaissance. 22. Rembrandt as Courtier. 23. Rembrandt in Chains: The Medici Self-Portrait. 24. Rembrandt in Venice: The Patriarch. 25. (Ef)facing the Hand. 26. The Last Laugh; or, Something More.
