Visualizing the Text
Subtitle: From Manuscript Culture to the Age of Caricature
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: Jun 01, 2017
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9781611496451
Description: 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.
Notes: Source title: Visualizing the Text: From Manuscript Culture to the Age of Caricature