| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 407 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps. |
| Series |
Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture
1568-1181 ;
volume 73 - 2021
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Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 73.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Personifications of the continents and issues of race and gender -- Cartographical origins of early continent personification -- Personifications of the world in Italian frescoes -- Continent personifications in maps and book illustration -- Popularization of continent personifications in the eighteenth century. |
| Summary |
"Since antiquity, artists have visualized the known world through the female (sometimes male) body. In the age of exploration, America was added to figures of Europe, Asia, and Africa who would come to inhabit the borders of geographical visual imagery. In the abundance of personifications in print, painting, ceramics, tapestry, and sculpture, do portrayals vary between hierarchy and global human dignity? Are we witnessing the emergence of ethnography or of racism? Yet, as this volume shows, depictions of bodies as places betray the complexity of human claims and desires. Bodies and Maps: Early Modern Personifications of the Continents opens up questions about early modern politics, travel literature, sexualities, gender, processes of making, and the mobility of forms and motifs. Contributors are: Louise Arizzoli, Elisa Daniele, Hilary Haakenson, Elizabeth Horodowich, Maryanne Cline Horowitz, Ann Rosalind Jones, Paul H. D. Kaplan, Marion Romberg, Mark Rosen, Benjamin Schmidt, Chet Van Duzer, Bronwen Wilson, and Michael Wintle"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Personification in art -- Congresses.
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Continents in art -- Congresses.
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Continents in art. |
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Personification in art. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Horowitz, Maryanne Cline, 1945- editor.
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Arizzoli, Louise, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bodies and maps. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2021 9789004387904 (DLC) 2020030434 (OCoLC)1176248853 |
| ISBN |
9789004438033 electronic book |
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9004438033 electronic book |
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9789004387904 hardback |
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