Title: Visualizing the text : from manuscript culture to the age of caricature /
Authors: Beck, Lauren; Ionescu, Christina,
Year: 2017
Subjects: Writing and art History.; Illustration of books History.; Illustration of books; Writing and art
Abstract: This volume presents in-depth and contextualized analyses of a wealth of visual materials. These documents provide viewers with a mesmerizing and informative glimpse into how the early modern world was interpreted by image-makers and presented to viewers during a period that spans from manuscript culture to the age of caricature. The premise of this collection responds to a fundamental question: how are early modern texts, objects, and systems of knowledge imaged and consumed through bimodal, hybrid, or intermedial products that rely on both words and pictures to convey meaning? The twelve contributors to this collection go beyond traditional lines of inquiry into word-and-image interaction to deconstruct visual dynamics and politics-to show how images were shaped, manipulated, displayed, and distributed to represent the material world, to propagate official and commercial messages, to support religious practice and ideology, or to embody relations of power.0.
Contents: Part I. Representing space : book culture, visual perspectivism, and intercultural communication -- Compiling creation : medieval codicology and images of early modern collection / by Janine Rogers -- Cosmography and perspectivism : Alonso de Fuentes's Summa de philosophia natural, its illustrations, and Cervantes's Don Quixote / by Rachel Schmidt -- The development of mixed pictographic-alphabetic accounting documents in colonial Mexico / by Cecilia Brain -- Part II. Annotating the image : Baroque painting, news maps, and print captions -- Annotation and books in early modern Spanish painting / by Lauren Beck -- Visualizing the news : the Amsterdam spin-doctor Claes Jansz Visscher and the West India Company / by Michiel van Groesen -- Text on image on text : picturing "nature" in Schall's illustrations for Rousseau's Julie, ou, La nouvelle Héloïse / by Ann Lewis -- Part III. Imagining empirical knowledge : illustrated travelogues, natural history treatises, and geological texts -- Description and representation in Oviedo's and Staden's travel accounts of the New World / by Sandra Sáenz-López Pérez -- Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton's anatomic descriptions complemented by Jacques de Sève's drawings : the hidden scientific gem of Buffon's Histoire naturelle / by Swann Paradis -- From analogies to patterns : images in French and British geological texts (1760-1800) / by David McCallam -- Part IV. Illustrating the text : engraved exotica, traces of reading, and satirical books -- Dialectic of/on foreignness : textual and iconographic representations of the faraway in the Histoire générale des voyages by Abbé Prévost / by Antoine Eche -- Illustrating for posterity : modes of readership in the eighteenth-century literary marketplace / by Leigh G. Dillard -- "Caricature untrammelled" : Thomas Tegg's illustrated satirical books / by Christina Smylitopoulos.