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Harry Berger

Manhood, Marriage, and Mischief

Rembrandt's 'Night Watch' and Other Dutch Group Portraits

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A study of the theory and practice of seventeenth-century Dutch group portraits, Manhood, Marriage, and Mischief offers a account of the genre's comic and ironic features, which it treats as comments on the social context of portrait sitters who are husbands and householders as well as members of civic and proto-military organizations. The introduction picks out anomalous touches by which Rembrandt problematizes standard group portrait motifs in The Night Watch: a shooter who fires his musket into the company; two girls who appear to be moving through the company in the wrong direction; guardsmen who appear to be paying little or no attention… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-8232-2557-6
  • EAN: 9780823225576
  • Produktnummer: 2404142
  • Verlag: Fordham University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
  • Seitenangabe: 192 S.
  • Masse: H20.3 cm x B22.7 cm x D2.4 cm 674 g
  • Abbildungen: 58 Black & White Illustrations42 Color Illustrations
  • Gewicht: 674
  • Sonstiges: Undergraduate

Über den Autor


Harry Berger, Jr., is Professor Emeritus of Literature and Art History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His most recent books include Figures of a Changing World: Metaphor and the Emergence of Modern Culture and A Fury in the Words: Love and Embarrassment in Shakespeare's Venice (both Fordham).

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