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Tudor liveliness : vivid art in post-Reformation England
- Title
- Tudor liveliness : vivid art in post-Reformation England / Christina J. Faraday.
- Author
- Faraday, Christina J.
- Publication
- London : Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2023.
- ©2023
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- Description
- ix, 198 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 28 cm
- Summary
- In Tudor and Jacobean England, visual art was often termed 'lively'. This word was used to describe the full range of visual and material culture - from portraits to funeral monuments, book illustrations to tapestry. To a modern viewer, this claim seems perplexing: what could 'liveliness' have meant in a culture with seemingly little appreciation for illusionistic naturalism? And in a period supposedly characterised by fear of idolatry, how could 'liveliness' have been a good thing? In this wide-ranging and innovative book, Christina Faraday excavates a uniquely Tudor model of vividness: one grounded in rhetorical techniques for creating powerful mental images for audiences. By drawing parallels with the dominant communicative framework of the day, Tudor Liveliness sheds new light on a lost mode of Tudor art criticism and appreciation, revealing how objects across a vast range of genres and contexts were taking part in the same intellectual and aesthetic conversations. By resurrecting a lost model for art theory, Faraday re-enlivens the vivid visual and material culture of Tudor and Jacobean England, recovering its original power to move, impress and delight.
- Alternative Title
- Vivid art in post-Reformation England
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-191) and index
- Contents
- Chapter 1. Liveliness -- Chapter 2. Liveliness in the church -- Chapter 3. Portraiture -- Chapter 4. Portrait miniatures -- Chapter 5. Book illustrations -- Chapter 6. Liveliness in the home -- . Epilogue : Liveliness and exploration.
- ISBN
- 9781913107376
- 191310737X
- LCCN
- 99993753593
- OCLC
- on1370615111
- 1370615111
- SCSB-14495900
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries