Research Catalog

Title

Visual typologies from the early modern to the contemporary : local contexts and global practices / edited by Lynda Klich and Tara Zanardi.

Publication

• New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Klich, Lynda
• Zanardi, Tara, 1971-

Description

xx, 298 pages; 26 cm

Summary

Visual Typologies from the Early Modern to the Contemporary' investigates the pictorial representation of types from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. Originating in longstanding visual traditions, including street crier prints and costume albums, these images share certain conventions, as they seek to convey knowledge about different peoples. The genre of the type became widespread in the early modern period, developing into a global language of identity. The essays explore diverse pictorial representations of types, customs, and dress in numerous media, including paintings, prints, postcards, photographs, and garments. Together, they reveal that the activation of typological strategies, including seriality, repetition, appropriation, and subversion has produced a universal and dynamic pictorial language. Typological images highlight the tensions between the local and the international, the specific and the communal, and similarity and difference inherent in the construction of identity. The first full-length study to treat these images as a broader genre, Visual Typologies gives voice to a marginalized form of representation. Together, the essays debunk the classification of such images as unmediated and authentic representations, offering fresh methodological frameworks to consider their meanings locally and globally, and establishing common ground about the operations of objects that sought to shape, embody, or challenge individual and collective identities.

Series Statement

Routledge research in art history

Uniform Title

Routledge research in art history.

Subject

• Manners and customs in art
• Other (Philosophy) in art

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Repeating, Borrowing, and Serializing -- Staging Place -- Performing the Documentary -- Materials of Typologies -- Unmasking Stereotypes.

Call Number

JQF 18-1424

ISBN

• 9781138200135
• 1138200131

LCCN

2018004212

OCLC

1022075059

Title

Visual typologies from the early modern to the contemporary : local contexts and global practices / edited by Lynda Klich and Tara Zanardi.

Publisher

New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge research in art history

Routledge research in art history.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Klich, Lynda, editor.

Zanardi, Tara, 1971- editor.

Research Call Number

JQF 18-1424