Hollow Men
Writing, Objects, and Public Image in Renaissance Italy
Fordham University Press · Print & ebook · March 20, 2013
This book relates developments in the visual arts and printing to humanist theories of literary and bodily imitation, bringing together fifteenth- and sixteenth-century frescoes, statues, coins, letters, dialogues, epic poems, personal emblems, and printed collections of portraits.
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- Who it’s for
- Renaissance monuments and printed images reshape ideas of imitation, self-presentation, and the self.
- Genres
- Renaissance Art History, Renaissance Literary Criticism, Renaissance History
- Published
- Fordham University Press, March 20, 2013
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This book relates developments in the visual arts and printing to humanist theories of literary and bodily imitation, bringing together fifteenth- and sixteenth-century frescoes, statues, coins, letters, dialogues, epic poems, personal emblems, and printed collections of portraits.
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Its interdisciplinary analyses show that Renaissance theories of emulating classical heroes generated a deep skepticism about self-presentation, ultimately contributing to a new awareness of representation as representation. Hollow Men shows that the Renaissance questioning of “interiority” derived from a visual ideal, the monument that was the basis of teachings about imitation. In fact, the decline of exemplary pedagogy and the emergence of modern masculine subjectivity were well underway in the mid–fifteenth century, and these changes were hastened by the rapid development of the printed image.
Renaissance Monuments
Renaissance monuments and printed images reshape ideas of imitation, self-presentation, and the self.
Come here for
- Personal emblems
- Printed collections of portraits
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- Connections between visual arts and printing
- A challenge to exemplary teaching
Where it sits
| Renaissance Literary Criticism | 67% |
|---|---|
| Renaissance Art History | 37% |
| Renaissance History | 26% |
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Publisher categories
- Italian History
- Renaissance Literary Criticism
- Gender Studies
- Authors
- Susan Gaylard
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Published
- March 20, 2013
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Italian History