Joseph Monteyne

The Printed Image in Early Modern London

Urban Space, Visual Representation, and Social Exchange

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presenting an inventive body of research that explores the connections between urban movements, space, and visual representation, this study offers the first sustained analysis of the vital interrelationship between printed images and urban life in early modern London. It is distinguished by its close and sustained readings of individual prints, complemented with a thorough examination of the dynamics of print production as a commercial exchange.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9780754660194
• ISBN-10: 0754660192
• Artikelnr.: 44973455

Autorenporträt

Joseph Monteyne is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction, thresholds of exchange: 'A thousand monster opinions': producing the space of the coffee house
Anatomizing the social body: visualizing the plague
The 'picture of Troy'
mapping the trauma of London's Fire in 1666
Representing the solemn mock procession of the Pope: the liminal space of print and the city
The Frost Fair of 1683-1684: print culture and the city re-imagined
Bibliography
Index.