Games and Game Playing in European Art and Literature, 16th-17th Centuries Hardback
Edited by Robin O'Bryan
Part of the Cultures of Play series
Hardback
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This collection of essays examines the vogue for games and game playing as expressed in art and literature in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe.
Focusing on games as a leitmotif of creative expression, these scholarly inquiries are framed as a response to two main questions: how were games used to convey special meanings in art and literature, and how did games speak to greater issues in European society?
In chapters dealing with chess, playing cards, board games, dice, gambling, and outdoor and sportive games, essayists show how games were used by artists, writers, game makers and collectors, in the service of love and war, didactic and moralistic instruction, commercial enterprise, politics and diplomacy, and assertions of civic and personal identity.
Offering innovative iconographical and literary interpretations, their analyses reveal how games“played, written about, illustrated and collected“functioned as metaphors for a host of broader cultural issues related to gender relations and feminine power, class distinctions and status, ethical and sexual comportment, philosophical and religious ideas, and conditions of the mind.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:304 pages, 3 Illustrations, color; 39 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Amsterdam University Press
- Publication Date:18/03/2019
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- ISBN:9789463728119
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:304 pages, 3 Illustrations, color; 39 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Amsterdam University Press
- Publication Date:18/03/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9789463728119