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Linda C. Hults - The Witch as Muse: Art, Gender, and Power in Early Modern Europe - 9780812221459 - V9780812221459
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The Witch as Muse: Art, Gender, and Power in Early Modern Europe

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Description for The Witch as Muse: Art, Gender, and Power in Early Modern Europe Paperback. The Witch as Muse is an interdisciplinary study of varied contexts and discourses that intersect in early modern artists' representations of witchcraft. Num Pages: 360 pages, 90 illus. BIC Classification: AC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 564.

Occult topics have long fascinated artists, and the subject of witches—their imagined bodies and fantastic rituals—was a popular one for painters and printmakers in early modern Europe. Focusing on several artists in depth, Linda C. Hults probes the historical and theoretical contexts of their work to examine the ways witches were depicted and the motivations for those depictions.

While studying the work of such artists as Dürer, Baldung, Jacques de Gheyn II, and Goya, Hults discerns patterns suggesting that the imagery of witchcraft served both as an expression of artistic license and as a tool of self-promotion for the artists. These imagined images of witches were designed to catch the attention of powerful and important patrons as witchcraft was being debated in political and intellectual centers. Dürer's early engravings of witnesses made in the wake of the Malleus maleficarum of 1487 were crucial in linking the seductive or aged female form with the dangers of witchcraft. The polarized idea of gender pervaded many aspects of early modern culture, including art theory. As the deluded female witch embodied the abuse of imagination and fantasy, so the male artist presented himself as putting those faculties to productive and reasoned use.

Product Details

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
563g
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812221459
SKU
V9780812221459
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About Linda C. Hults
Linda C. Hults is Professor of Art History at The College of Wooster. She is the author of The Print in the Western World: An Introductory History.

Reviews for The Witch as Muse: Art, Gender, and Power in Early Modern Europe
"The Witch as Muse . . . is not simply an art history book with an intriguing theme; it is an exceptionally well-written monograph produced by an art historian who has spent over a decade thinking about her subject."—The Medieval Review "The most significant and broad-reaching study we have on the place of the witch in the imagination of artists from the early sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. . . . Learned, sophisticated, and compelling."—CAA Reviews

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