First published in 1998, this volume explores how in the seventeenth century depictions of human oddity, hunchbacks, cripples, dwarfs, appeared regularly in the work of both minor and major artists including Vel???quez, Rubens, Van Dyck and Rivera. In this, the first comprehensive study of these images, Barry Wind starts with the topoi for the mentally and physically infirm established in antiquity and traces their development into the Baroque period. A delight in the unusual was consonant with the contemporary collection ...
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First published in 1998, this volume explores how in the seventeenth century depictions of human oddity, hunchbacks, cripples, dwarfs, appeared regularly in the work of both minor and major artists including Vel???quez, Rubens, Van Dyck and Rivera. In this, the first comprehensive study of these images, Barry Wind starts with the topoi for the mentally and physically infirm established in antiquity and traces their development into the Baroque period. A delight in the unusual was consonant with the contemporary collection of other exotica, convoluted shells and strange animals, but human 'freaks' provoked more than curiosity. Their representation ranged from taxonomic fascination to derisive mockery. They were frequently cast as imperfect foils to the fashionable courtiers who sought aggrandizement through juxtaposition. The images were also exploited as metaphors for a favourite theme of the period 'the world turned upside down'. In this synthesis of repulsion and fascination, mockery and dread, the portrayal of these 'others' reveals a dark underside of Baroque culture that has never been thoroughly investigated or understood. With the support of 75 reproductions of works from Italy, Spain and Northern Europe, Barry Wind examines representations of human deformity throughout the baroque period. He pursues his account into the eighteenth century and the expression of a new sympathetic understanding and compassion. His study, written with great clarity, makes available hitherto obscure and inaccessible material gathered from diverse sources such as medical treatises, literary texts, popular ballads and court documents to set these images in their context and explain this obsession with difference.
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Very Good Plus in Very Good Plus jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Cloth, hardcover in dust jacket., at front and rear interior hinges the binder's adhesive darkened under the pastedown along the gutter. dj spine has sunned. the art historian prior owner wrote his name, place/date on front free endpaper. else, clean. no text or exterior markings. no bumps, tears, clips, or the like. tight binding.; english text.; xii-150pp., 73 b/w illustrations.
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Good in Good dust jacket in Good jacket. No owners' marks; there is some darkening along the hinges and just a little foxing on the top page block edge, otherwise clean; binding is square and tight; there are two small, pale stains on the front of the hard cover, some rubbing at corners and spine ends, and a tap and wrinkle at the spine heel, otherwise cover is sound. The dustjacket is quite faded along the spine and uppers, and there is wrinkling at the spine ends and free cornes, but the jacket remains clean and good, now protected in a clear sleeve.
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