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Yvonne Owens - Abject Eroticism in Northern Renaissance Art: The Witches and Femmes Fatales of Hans Baldung Grien - 9781784537296 - V9781784537296
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Abject Eroticism in Northern Renaissance Art: The Witches and Femmes Fatales of Hans Baldung Grien

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Description for Abject Eroticism in Northern Renaissance Art: The Witches and Femmes Fatales of Hans Baldung Grien Hardcover. Hans Baldung Grien, the most famous apprentice and close friend of German artist Albrecht Durer, was known for his unique and highly eroticised images of witches. Series: International Library of Visual Culture. Num Pages: 288 pages, 25 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; ACND; AFC; AFH; AGB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 25. .
Hans Baldung Grien, the most famous apprentice and close friend of German artist Albrecht Durer, was known for his unique and highly eroticised images of witches. In paintings and woodcut prints, he gave powerful visual expression to late medieval tropes and stereotypes, such as the poison maiden, venomous virgin, the Fall of Man, `death and the maiden' and other motifs and eschatological themes, which mingled abject and erotic qualities in the female body. Yvonne Owens reads these images against the humanist intellectual milieu of Renaissance Germany, showing how classical and medieval medicine and natural philosophy interpreted female anatomy as ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
International Library of Visual Culture
Publication date
2018
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784537296
SKU
V9781784537296
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About Yvonne Owens
Yvonne Owens is Professor of Art History and Critical Studies, and Director of Academic Studies, at the Victoria College of Art in British Columbia, Canada. She earned her PhD in History of Art at the Centre for European Studies at UCL as a Marie Curie Research Fellow.

Reviews for Abject Eroticism in Northern Renaissance Art: The Witches and Femmes Fatales of Hans Baldung Grien
This is an exceptional study. In the crowded field of witch research it stands out for many reasons; the breadth of material employed, the deep knowledge of primary and secondary sources, and the arrangement of an amazing wealth of scholarship around one artist, Hans Baldung Grien.
Gerhild Scholz Williams, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
The images alone ... Read more

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