The anthropomorphic lens : anthropomorphism, microcosmism and analogy in early modern thought and visual arts
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The anthropomorphic lens : anthropomorphism, microcosmism and analogy in early modern thought and visual arts
(Intersections : yearbook for early modern studies, v. 34)
Brill, c2015
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Anthropomorphism - the projection of the human form onto the every aspect of the world - closely relates to early modern notions of analogy and microcosm. What had been construed in Antiquity as a ready metaphor for the order of creation was reworked into a complex system relating the human body to the body of the world. Numerous books and images - cosmological diagrams, illustrated treatises of botany and zoology, maps, alphabets, collections of ornaments, architectural essays - are entirely constructed on the anthropomorphic analogy. Exploring the complexities inherent in such work, the interdisciplinary essays in this volume address how the anthropomorphic model is fraught with contradictions and tensions, between magical and rational, speculative and practical thought.
Contributors include Pamela Brekka, Anne-Laure van Bruaene, Ralph Dekoninck, Agnes Guiderdoni, Christopher P. Heuer, Sarah Kyle, Walter S. Melion, Christina Normore, Elizabeth Petcu, Bertrand Prevost, Bret Rothstein, Paul Smith, Miya Tokumitsu, Michel Weemans, and Elke Werner.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction
Michel Weemans and Bertrand Prevost
ANTHROPOMORPHISM AND THE ORDER OF THINGS
Delineating the Boundaries of the Human
1 Revolting Beasts: Animal Satire and Animal Trials in the Dutch Revolt
Anne-Laure van Bruaene
2 Monkey in the Middle
Christina Normore
3 Landscape and Body in Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel
Paul J. Smith
4 The Migrating Cannibal: Anthropophagy at Home and at the Edge of the World
Miya Tokumitsu
Empathy and the Constitution of the Self
5 Picturing the Soul, Living and Departed
Nathalie de Breze
6 Patience Grows: The First Roots of Joris Hoefnagel's Emblematic Art
Marisa Bass
7 The 'Album micorum' and the Kaleidoscope of the Self: Notes on the Friendship Book of Jacob Heyblocq
Aneta Georgievska-Shine
Visualizing the Body Politic
8 Picturing the 'Living' Tabernacle in the Antwerp Polyglot Bible
Pamela Merrill Brekka
9 A New Heraldry: Vision and Rhetoric in the 'Carrara Herbal'
Sarah R. Kyle
10 Anthropomorphic Maps: On the Aesthetic Form and Political Function of Body Metaphors in the Early Modern Europe Discourse
Elke Anna Werner
FIGURATION AND SEMIOTIC POTENTIAL
Anthropomorphosis and Its Critics
11 Prodigies of Nature, Wonders of the Hand: Political Portents and Divine: Artifice in Haarlem ca. 1600
Walter S. Melion
12 Between Fiction and Reality: The Image Body in the Early Modern Theory of the Symbol
Ralph Dekoninck
Anthropomorphosis and Its Conditions
13 Anthropomorphizing the Orders: 'Terms' of Architectural Eloquence in the Northern Renaissance
Elizabeth J. Petcu
14 Visage-paysage. Probleme de peinture
Bertrand Prevost
Figuring the Impossible
15 Nobody's Bruegel
Christopher P. Heuer
16 Morbid Fascination: Death by Bruegel
Larry Silver
Metamorphic Figuration
17 Jan van Hemessen's Anatomy of Parody
Bret L. Rothstein
18 The Smoke of Sacrifice: Anthropomorphism and Figure in Karel van Mallery's 'Sacrifice of Cain and Abel' for Louis Richeome's 'Tableaux Sacrez' (1601)
Michel Weemans
Index Nominum
List of Illustrations
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