The Visible and the Invisible: On Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting

Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat

Published by De Gruyter 2015

The Visible and the Invisible

On Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting

Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat

In the series Edition Angewandte

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110423013

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On the Relationship of Language to Image

The book addresses the scientific debates on Rembrandt, Metsu, Vermeer, and Hoogstraten that are currently taking place in art history and cultural studies. These focus mainly on the representation of gender difference, the relationship between text and image, and the emotional discourse. They are also an appeal for art history as a form of cultural studies that analyses the semantic potential of art within discursive and social contemporary practices.

Dutch painting of the seventeenth century reflects its relationship to visible reality. It deals with ambiguities and contradictions. As an avant-garde artistic media, it also contributes to the emergence of a subjectivity towards the modern “bourgeois”. It discards subject matter from its traditional fixation with iconology and evokes different imaginations and semantizations - aspects that have not been sufficiently taken into account in previous research.

The book is to be understood as an appeal for art history as a form of cultural science that analyses the semantic potential of art within discursive and social contemporary practices, and, at the same time, demonstrates its relevance today. Works by Rembrandt, Metsu, Vermeer, Hoogstraten, and others serve as exemplary case studies for addressing current debates in art history and cultural studies, such as representation of gender difference, relationship between text and image, and emotional discourse.

A new cultural studies perspective on Dutch painting of the 17th century
Examines the possibilities and limits of the historical representation of gender difference

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Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat, Institute of Art History, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	6
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Part I. Visible becomes Invisible Gender Construction in Rembrandt’s Works
1. On Female Representation or On the disappearance of male protagonists from the field of representation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2. On Male Representation or On the disappearance of female protagonists from the field of representation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
3. Asymmetry. Gender Relations in the Field of Sexuality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
4. Summary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Part II. Invisible becomes Visible Painting, not Mimesis
1. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall … Woman before the Mirror by Frans van Mieris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
2. The Picture within the Picture or Conveying the world through media Woman Holding a Balance by Vermeer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
3. Farewell to Lessing’s Laocoon: Leaving behind a Methodological Dispute Gabriel Metsu’s A Woman Reading a Letter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
4. The Gender of Letters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
5. Affect / Emotion / Imagination Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Art scholars; students; all who are interested in Dutch painting
Pages
- Main content: 340
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 157
Keywords: Kunstgeschichte; art history; Imagination; imagination; Affekte; affects; Geschlechterbeziehung; gender relation

eBook

Published: March 10, 2015
ISBN: 9783110423013

Hardcover

Published: February 26, 2015
ISBN: 9783110426908