The Book of Hours and the Body : Somaesthetics, Posthumanism, and the Uncanny PDF
by Sherry C. M. Lindquist
Part of the Routledge Research in Art History series
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This book explores our corporeal connections to the past by considering what three theoretical approaches - somaesthetics, posthumanism, and the uncanny - may reveal about both premodern and postmodern terms of embodiment.
It takes as its point of departure a selection of fifteenth-century northern European Books of Hours - evocative objects designed at once to inscribe social status, to strengthen religious commitment, to entertain, to stimulate emotions, and to encourage discomfiting self-scrutiny. Studying their kaleidoscopically strange, moving, humorous, disturbing, and imaginative pages not only enables a window into relationships among bodies, images, and things in the past but also in our own internet era, where surprisingly popular memes drawn from such manuscripts constitute a part of our own visual culture.
In negotiating theoretical, post-theoretical, and historical concerns, this book aims to contribute to an emerging and much-needed intersectional social history of art. It will be of interest to scholars working in art history, medieval studies, Renaissance/early modern studies, gender studies, the history of the book, posthumanism, aesthetics, and the body.
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- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis
- Publication Date:29/02/2024
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis
- Publication Date:29/02/2024
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- ISBN:9781003822073
