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Description

1. x, 185 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

1. Picturing Silence: Emblem, Language, Counter-Reformation Materiality offers a materialist account of the making and dissemination of Renaissance emblems - symbolic forms combining words and pictures. During the early sixteenth century, humanists began to publish collections of emblems, primarily for an erudite audience.
2. Karen Pinkus examines the social context for such collections and provides a reading of key examples of the genre, illuminating our understanding of gender relations, economics, homosociality, "the gaze," homicide and blood guilt, and the body within humanist ideology.
3. Pinkus grounds her discussion in a historical understanding of the Counter-Reformation period; at the same time she considers the emblematic form in a more general and philosophical sense, linking the humanist emblem to baseball cards and to the modern advertisement, as a call to consume.
4. Part of a growing body of theoretically informed writings in Italian Renaissance Studies, Picturing Silence is unique in its attempt to weave together Renaissance and postmodern considerations of representation. It should appeal to specialists in a variety of disciplines, including art history, cultural studies, feminist studies, and media studies.

Series statement

1. The Body, in theory

Uniform title

1. Body, in theory

Subject

1. Alciati, Andrea 1492-1550
2. Bocchi, Achille 1488-1562
3. Contarini, Gasparo 1483-1542
4. Signs and symbols
5. Emblems
6. Visual communication
7. Emblems and Insignia
8. symbols
9. emblems (symbols)
10. Emblems
11. Signs and symbols
12. Visual communication
13. Künstler
14. Ausbildung
15. Emblem
16. Kunstwissenschaft
17. Reformation
18. Symbol
19. Symbolik
20. Visuelle Kommunikation
21. Emblemata
22. Humanisme (cultuurgeschiedenis)
23. Contrareformatie
24. Counter-Reformation
25. Emblems > Italy > History > 16th century
26. Renaissance > Italy
27. Italien

Contents

1. 1. The Contours of Silence -- 2. The Counter-Reformation Gaze and Symbolic Action -- 3. The Academy: Male Sodality and Paternal Paradigms -- 4. Philology and Emblems: A Murder Case -- 5. The Subject of Theory -- 6. Humanism in Words and Pictures.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.