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Author Brisman, Shira, author.

Title Albrecht Dürer & the epistolary mode of address / Shira Brisman.

Publication Info. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (223 pages) : illustrations (some color)
text file PDF
Sixteenth century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-218) and index.
Contents Introduction -- The body of a letter -- The message in transit -- Relay and delay -- Privileged mediators -- Interception -- Dürer's open letter -- Conclusion.
Summary "Art historians have long looked to letters to secure biographical details; clarify relationships between artists and patrons; and present artists as modern, self-aware individuals. This book takes a novel approach: focusing on Albrecht Dürer, Shira Brisman is the first to argue that the experience of writing, sending, and receiving letters shaped how he treated the work of art as an agent for communication. In the early modern period, before the establishment of a reliable postal system, letters faced risks of interception and delay. During the Reformation, the printing press threatened to expose intimate exchanges and blur the line between public and private life. Exploring the complex travel patterns of sixteenth-century missives, Brisman explains how these issues of sending and receiving informed Dürer's artistic practices. His success, she contends, was due in large part to his development of pictorial strategies an epistolary mode of address marked by a direct and intimate appeal to the viewer, an appeal that also acknowledges the distance and delay that defers the message before it can reach its recipient. As images, often in the form of prints, coursed through an open market, and artists lost direct control over the sale and reception of their work, Germany's chief printmaker navigated the new terrain by creating in his images a balance between legibility and concealment, intimacy and public address." -- Provided by the publisher.
Biography Shira Brisman is assistant professor of art history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Language In English.
Subject Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528.
Criticism and interpretation.
Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528 -- Correspondence.
Dürer, Albrecht 1471-1528.
Dürer, Albrecht, (1471-1528)
Communication and the arts -- Germany -- History -- 16th century.
Communication and the arts.
Germany.
History.
Chronological Term 16th century
Subject Communication in art -- Germany -- History -- 16th century.
Visual communication -- Germany -- History -- 16th century.
Communication in art.
German letters -- 16th century -- History and criticism.
German letters.
Written communication -- Germany -- History -- 16th century.
Visual communication.
Written communication.
ART -- General.
Brief.
Kommunikation.
Chronological Term 1500-1599
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Personal correspondence.
Added Title Albrecht Dürer and the epistolary mode of address
Other Form: Print version: Brisman, Shira. Albrecht Dürer & the epistolary mode of address. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016 9780226354750 (DLC) 2016005512 (OCoLC)943710092
ISBN 9780226354897 (electronic book)
022635489X (electronic book)
9780226354750 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
022635475X (cloth ; alkaline paper)
Standard No. 10.7208/9780226354897
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