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Manhood, marriage, & mischief : Rembrandt's 'Night watch' and other Dutch group portraits / Harry Berger, Jr.

Title
Manhood, marriage, & mischief : Rembrandt's 'Night watch' and other Dutch group portraits / Harry Berger, Jr.
Author
Berger, Harry.
Publication
New York : Fordham University Press, 2007.

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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669
Description
xx, 272 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.
Summary
"A study of the theory and practice of seventeenth-century Dutch group portraits, Manhood, Marriage, and Mischief offers an 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."--book jacket.
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books
Alternative Title
  • Manhood, marriage, and mischief
  • Rembrandt's 'Night watch' and other Dutch group portraits
Subject
  • Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669
  • Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669 > Criticism and interpretation
  • 1600-1699
  • Portraits, Group > Netherlands
  • Portrait painting, Dutch > 17th century
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-265) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
A shot in the dark -- Pt. 1. Group portraits and the fictions of the pose. 1. Toward the interpretation of performance anxiety -- 2. Portraiture and the fictions of the pose -- 3. The posographical imperative : a comparison of genres -- 4. Group portraiture : coming together and coming apart -- 5. Alois Riegl and the posographical imperative -- 6. Performance anxiety and the belated viewer -- Pt. 2. Militias and marriage. 7. Male bondage and the military imperative -- 8. Social sources of performance anxiety -- Pt. 3. Picturing family values. 9. The preacher's wife -- 10. Women with elbows -- 11. Families making music -- Pt. 4. 'The Night Watch' as homosocial pastoral.
ISBN
  • 9780823225569 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0823225569 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780823225576 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0823225577 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2006038241
OCLC
  • 76794761
  • SCSB-10403530
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library