Human Security For All [electronic resource] : A Tribute to Sergio Vieira de Mello
Berger, Harry.
New York : Fordham University Press,
2007.
A study of the theory and practice of seventeenth-century Dutch group portraits, 'Manhood, Marriage, & Mischief' offers an account of the genre's comic and ironic features, which it treats as comments on the social context of portrait sitters who are husbands and householders as well as members of civic and proto-military organizations.
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""Title Page ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Preface ""; ""Introduction: A Shot in the Dark ""; ""Part 1: Group Portraits and the Fictions of the Pose ""; ""Chapter 1: Toward the Interpretation of Performance Anxiety ""; ""Chapter 2: Portraiture and the Fictions of the Pose ""; ""Chapter 3: The Posographical Imperative: A Comparison of Genres ""; ""Chapter 4: Group Portraiture: Coming Together and Coming Apart ""; ""Chapter 5: Alois Riegl and the Posographical Imperative ""; ""Chapter 6: Performance Anxiety and the Belated Viewer ""; ""Part 2: Militias and Marriage ""
""Chapter 7: Male Bondage and the Military Imperative """"Chapter 8: Social Sources of Performance Anxiety ""; ""Part 3: Picturing Family Values ""; ""Chapter 9: The Preacher's Wife ""; ""Chapter 10: Women with Elbows ""; ""Chapter 11: Families Making Music ""; ""Part 4: 'The Night Watch' as Homosocial  Pastoral ""; ""Chapter 12: The Night Watch: How the Sandbank Crumbles ""; ""Chapter 13: Evasive Action: Three Ways to Shore Up the Sandbank ""; ""Chapter 14: Captain Cocq and the Unruly Mustketeer ""; ""Chapter 15: Disaggregation as Class Conflict ""
""Chapter 16: Manual Mischief: The Loneliness of the Red Musketeer """"Chapter 17: Between Stad and Stadholder: Captain Cocq's Dilemma ""; ""Chapter 18: Posographical Misfires ""; ""Chapter 19: An Odd Couple: The Ghost of Anslo's Wife ""; ""Coda: Playing Soldier ""; ""Notes ""; ""Index ""
A study of the theory and practice of seventeenth-century Dutch group portraits, 'Manhood, Marriage, & Mischief' offers an account of the genre's comic and ironic features, which it treats as comments on the social context of portrait sitters who are husbands and householders as well as members of civic and proto-military organizations.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669
Portrait painting, Dutch -- 17th century.
Portraits, Group -- Netherlands.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, -- 1606-1669 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, -- 1606-1669. -- Night watch.
Portraits, Group
Portrait painting, Dutch
Visual Arts
Art, Architecture & Applied Arts
Painting