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Warfare, and the circumstances surrounding it, have often provided important impulses for cultural production. This book explores the relationship between warfare and image-making in the early modern period. Rather than dealing with images simply as reproductions of actual events, the volume demonstrates complex processes by which political, national and social identities are negotiated and fashioned in warfare imagery.
The book analyses three main issues: the impact of war on art, the ways in which warfare imagery supports dominant ideologies, and the manner in which such imagery also constructs alternative identities. The essays offer a broad range of methodologies while dealing with a wide array of chronological, geographical and artistic materials. Historians and art historians will find this volume particularly useful in its nuanced examination of the relationship between art and history.
The book analyses three main issues: the impact of war on art, the ways in which warfare imagery supports dominant ideologies, and the manner in which such imagery also constructs alternative identities. The essays offer a broad range of methodologies while dealing with a wide array of chronological, geographical and artistic materials. Historians and art historians will find this volume particularly useful in its nuanced examination of the relationship between art and history.
Price: $189.00
Pages: 298
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: History of Warfare
Publication Date:
14 November 2001
ISBN: 9789004115880
Format: Hardcover
"All of the case studies are interesting and are based on meticulous research in primary sources. This reviewer enjoyed the volume (not least because it is itself a beautiful artifact), learned much from it, and, like the editor, hopes it will "inspire further forays into this intriguing field" (11)—such forays are essential because of this volume's limitations. It works well as a detailed and richly textured study of cultural production in the sixteenth century and as an exploration of the relationship between art and history." - D. J. B. Trim, Newbold College, Bracknell, in: Sixteenth Century Journal
Pia F. Cuneo, Ph.D. (1991) in Art History, Northwestern University. Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Arizona. She has published extensively on early modern German art including Art and Politics in Early Modern Germany (Brill, 1998).