Dürer and his Culture
Dürer and his Culture
Charles Zika , University of Melbourne
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USDThis collection extends and deepens understanding of the political, social, and cultural contexts through which the meanings of Dürer's works can be perceived, and focuses on images which provide insights into his rich cultural milieu. Expanding views of nature and landscape, cultural strategies of collecting, the construction of national cultural identity, the humanist concern for a moral life, the transgressions of sexual order, and the gendered rituals of courtship are just some of the contemporary discourses and practices to which Dürer's works are linked. Also discussed is the manner in which images were viewed in the early-sixteenth century, and the powers and dangers with which they were associated, and the collection concludes with an appreciation of the changing historical role which Dürer himself has had within the European cultural tradition.
- Brings together a range of different approaches to Dürer and the sixteenth-century
- Sets Dürer's work in the context of sixteenth-century discourses (nature, collecting, gender, witchcraft, visual perception)
- Offers the first substantial bibliography of international scholarship on Dürer since Matthias Mende's comprehensive work of 1971
Reviews & endorsements
"The strength of this volume rests in the diversity of approaches taken by the contributors....the individual articles highlight important aspects of DÜrer's work and early modern culture from a wide range of perspectives. The main target of this book might be art historians, but all sixteenth-century scholars will certainly profit from the various insights offered here." Albrecht Classen, German Studies Review
"The book is well produced, scrupulously documented, and has a single select bibliogrpahy." HNA Newsletter
"This is a varied, sophisticated and consistently engaging volume, which adds much to our understanding of Dürer the artist, the man and cultural icon." - H-Net Andrew Morrall, Bard Graduate Center, New York
Product details
February 2005Paperback
9780521619882
276 pages
246 × 189 × 15 mm
0.5kg
77 b/w illus.
Available
Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Dürer and his culture: an introduction Dagmar Eichberger, and Charles Zika
- Part I. Artist and Environment:
- 1. Naturalia and artefacta: Dürer's nature drawings and early collecting Dagmar Eichberger
- 2. Germanic patriotism in the age of Dürer Larry Silver
- 3. The Michelfeldt Tapestry and contemporary European literature Wim Hüsken
- Part II. Image and Audience:
- 4. Ways of seeing in the age of Dürer Bob Scribner
- 5. Dürer's witch and riding women: shaping moral order in sixteenth-century Germany Charles Zika
- Part III. Communal Culture and Representation:
- 6. Tokens of affection: the meanings of love in sixteenth-century Germany Lyndal Roper
- 7. The censorship of images in Reformation Germany 1520–1560 Christiane Andersson
- Part IV. Dürer and the Canon:
- 8. Changing German perceptions of the historical role of Albrecht Dürer Paul Münch
- 9. The making of Dürer in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria Irena Zdanowicz
- Select bibliography: Albrecht Dürer (1971–1997)
- Dagmar Eichberger and Charles Zika
- Index.
