| Artful Armies, Beautiful Battles: Art and Warfare in the Early Modern Europe Contributor(s): Cuneo, Pia F. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9004115889 ISBN-13: 9789004115880 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2001 Annotation: Warfare, and the circumstances surrounding it, have often provided important impulses for cultural production. This book explores the relationship between warfare and image-making in the early modern period. Rather than dealing with images simply as reproductions of actual events, the volume demonstrates complex processes by which political, national and social identities are negotiated and fashioned in warfare imagery. The book analyses three main issues: the impact of war on art, the ways in which warfare imagery supports dominant ideologies, and the manner in which such imagery also constructs alternative identities. The essays offer a broad range of methodologies while dealing with a wide array of chronological, geographical and artistic materials. Historians and art historians will find this volume particularly useful in its nuanced examination of the relationship between art and history. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Interior Design - General - Art | Subjects & Themes - General - History | Europe - General |
| Dewey: 704.949 |
| LCCN: 2001043354 |
| Series: History of Warfare |
| Physical Information: 0.96" H x 6.54" W x 9.66" (1.45 lbs) 312 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Warfare, and the circumstances surrounding it, have often provided important impulses for cultural production. This book explores the relationship between warfare and image-making in the early modern period. Rather than dealing with images simply as reproductions of actual events, the volume demonstrates complex processes by which political, national and social identities are negotiated and fashioned in warfare imagery. The book analyses three main issues: the impact of war on art, the ways in which warfare imagery supports dominant ideologies, and the manner in which such imagery also constructs alternative identities. The essays offer a broad range of methodologies while dealing with a wide array of chronological, geographical and artistic materials. Historians and art historians will find this volume particularly useful in its nuanced examination of the relationship between art and history. |