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Comic print and theatre in early modern Amsterdam : gender, childhood and the city
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ISBN: 0754608441 Year: 2003 Volume: *1 Publisher: Aldershot ; Burlington Ashgate


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The moving statues of seventeenth-century Amsterdam : automata, waxworks, fountains, labyrinths
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ISBN: 9780271091402 0271091401 9780271091600 Year: 2022 Publisher: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press,

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Explores the visual and cultural history of Amsterdam in the early modern era, focusing on the doolhoven: winding mazes behind pubs and taverns that featured pleasure gardens, waterworks, wax galleries, and automata.


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Boredom's threshold : Dutch realism
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Strange things for strangers : transcultural automata in early modern Amsterdam
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Year: 2021

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The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam : Automata, Waxworks, Fountains, Labyrinths
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ISBN: 0271091916 Year: 2022 Publisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press,

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This book opens a window onto a fascinating and understudied aspect of the visual, material, intellectual, and cultural history of seventeenth-century Amsterdam: the role played by its inns and taverns, specifically the doolhoven.Doolhoven were a type of labyrinth unique to early modern Amsterdam. Offering guest lodgings, these licensed public houses also housed remarkable displays of artwork in their gardens and galleries. The main attractions were inventive displays of moving mechanical figures (automata) and a famed set of waxwork portraits of the rulers of Protestant Europe. Publicized as the most innovative artworks on display in Amsterdam, the doolhoven exhibits presented the mercantile city as a global center of artistic and technological advancement. This evocative tour through the doolhoven pub gardens--where drinking, entertainment, and the acquisition of knowledge mingled in encounters with lively displays of animated artifacts--shows that the exhibits had a forceful and transformative impact on visitors, one that moved them toward Protestant reform.Deeply researched and decidedly original, The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam uncovers a wealth of information about these nearly forgotten public pleasure parks, situating them within popular culture, religious controversies, global trade relations, and intellectual debates of the seventeenth century. It will appeal in particular to scholars in art history and early modern studies.


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The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam : Automata, Waxworks, Fountains, Labyrinths
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ISBN: 9780271091600 Year: 2023 Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press,

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The erotics of looking : early modern Netherlandish art
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ISBN: 9781118465257 Year: 2013 Volume: *4 Publisher: Hoboken : Wiley-Blackwell,

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"The Erotics of Looking: Early Modern Netherlandish Art presents a collection of provocative essays that explore the material qualities of early Dutch art to reveal ways new forms of visual imagery solicit a beholder's involvement. Explores how descriptive pictures during the early modern Dutch art period operated as social things and were designed to pleasurably engage the eye and prompt discussion and debate Shows how these works potentially raised ethical and political questions about the interconnectedness of engaging with pictures and the material world Represents a major contribution to the field of early modern Netherlandish art and to general debates about the status and functions of descriptive art Features essays addressing a variety of aspects of the field, from the historiography of Dutch art to closely attentive readings of particular works Crafts an original theoretical framework by applying recent insights about the making of early modern publics and the study of material things to the analysis of Netherlandish art "-- "Crafts an original theoretical framework by applying recent insights about the making of early modern publics and the study of material things to the analysis of Netherlandish art"--


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The erotics of looking : materiality, solicitation and Netherlandish visual culture
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Making Worlds : Global Invention in the Early Modern Period.
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ISBN: 1487544960 1487544952 Year: 2022 Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press,

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"Taking into account the destructive powers of globalization, Making Worlds considers the interconnectedness of the world in the early modern period. This collection examines the interdisciplinary phenomenon of making worlds, with essays from scholars of history, literary studies, theatre and performance, art history, and anthropology. The volume advances questions about the history of globalization by focusing on how the expansion of global transit offered possibilities for interactions that included the testing of local identities through inventive experimentation with new and various forms of culture. Case studies show how the imposition of European economic, religious, political, and military models on other parts of the world unleashed unprecedented forces of invention as institutionalized powers came up against the creativity of peoples, cultural practices, materials, and techniques of making. In doing so, Making Worlds offers an important rethinking of how early globalization inconsistently generated ongoing dynamics of making, unmaking, and remaking worlds."--

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