Research Catalog

Title

Picturing punishment : the spectacle and material afterlife of the criminal body in the Dutch Republic / Anuradha Gobin.

Author

Gobin, Anuradha

Publication

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2021]

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Details

Description

x, 290 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

"Picturing Punishment examines representations of criminal bodies as they moved in, out, and through publicly accessible spaces in the city during punishment rituals in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. Once put to death, the criminal cadaver did not come to rest. Its movement through public spaces indicated the potent afterlife of the deviant body, especially its ability to transform civic life. Focusing on material culture associated with key sites of punishment, Anuradha Gobin argues that the circulation of visual media related to criminal punishments was a particularly effective means of generating discourse and formulating public opinion, especially regarding the efficacy of civic authority. Certain types of objects related to criminal punishments served a key role in asserting republican ideals and demonstrating the ability of officials to maintain order and control. Conversely, the circulation of other types of images, especially inexpensive paintings and prints, had the potential to subvert official messages. As Gobin shows, visual culture thus facilitated a space in which potentially dissenting positions could be formulated while also bringing together seemingly disparate groups of people in a quest for new knowledge. Combining a diverse array of sources including architecture, paintings, prints, anatomical illustrations, and preserved body parts, Picturing Punishment demonstrates how the criminal corpse was reactivated, reanimated, and in many ways reintegrated into society."--

Subject

• 1600-1699
• Punishment in art
• Dead in art
• Prosecution in art
• Justice in art
• Art, Dutch > 17th century > Themes, motives
• Punishment > Netherlands > History > 17th century
• Criminals > Netherlands > Death > History > 17th century
• Crime > Netherlands > History > 17th century
• Art, Dutch > Themes, motives
• Crime
• Punishment
• Netherlands

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic format.

Contents

Structures of Power: Constructing and Publicizing the New Amsterdam Town Hall -- Procession and Execution Rituals: Moving through the New Amsterdam Town Hall -- Disposal and Display: The Criminal Corpse on the Gallows -- Subversion and symbolic transformation: recreation, ambush, and humour at the gallows -- Serving the Public Good: Reform, Prestige and the Productive Criminal Body in Amsterdam -- The Transformation of Touch: Flayed Skin and the Visual and Material Afterlife of the Criminal Body in the Leiden Anatomical Theatre -- The Symbolism of Skin: Illustrating the Flayed Body.

Call Number

JQE 21-960

ISBN

• 9781487503802
• 1487503806

OCLC

1223011948

Author

Gobin, Anuradha, author.

Title

Picturing punishment : the spectacle and material afterlife of the criminal body in the Dutch Republic / Anuradha Gobin.

Publisher

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats

Issued also in electronic format.

Chronological Term

1600-1699

Other Form:

Online version: Gobin, Anuradha. Picturing punishment. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2021 1487518803 9781487518806 (OCoLC)1242423565

Research Call Number

JQE 21-960