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The Affective and Hermeneutic Functions of the Mindful Picture examines paintings, drawings, and prints that use various representational contrivances to call attention to their status as pictorial images, in ways calculated both to stir the emotions and to incite interpretation. The books consists of five sections: “Materials, Artifice, and Agencies of the Hand” examines images in which the saliency of medium and manufacture mediate the conveyance of affect and meaning; “Thinking and Picturing” focuses on images that construe picturing as a mode of thought; “Self-Reflexive Image-making” considers drawings, prints, paintings, and sculpture in which affect and meaning hinge on a reference to their makers; “Spectators at the Threshold” investigates images that situate the locus of meaning at the viewer’s point of entry into the picture; and “Emblematic Intertexts” explicates images whose affective meaning results from their embedment within emblematic intertexts.
Contributors include Christopher D.M. Atkins, Tamar Cholcman, James Clifton, William E. Engel, Reindert Falkenburg, Robert Fucci, Aneta Georgievska-Shine, Hanneke Grootenboer, Yannis Hadjinicolaou, Valérie Hayaert, Matt Kavaler, Lizzie Marx, Simon McKeown, Walter S. Melion, Jun P. Nakamura, Thor-Oona Pignarre-Altermatt, Stephanie Porras, Itay Sapir, Joanna Skubisz, Angela Vanhaelen, Michel Weemans, Elliott D. Wise, Joanna Woodall, Michael Zell, and Steffen Zierholz.
Contributors include Christopher D.M. Atkins, Tamar Cholcman, James Clifton, William E. Engel, Reindert Falkenburg, Robert Fucci, Aneta Georgievska-Shine, Hanneke Grootenboer, Yannis Hadjinicolaou, Valérie Hayaert, Matt Kavaler, Lizzie Marx, Simon McKeown, Walter S. Melion, Jun P. Nakamura, Thor-Oona Pignarre-Altermatt, Stephanie Porras, Itay Sapir, Joanna Skubisz, Angela Vanhaelen, Michel Weemans, Elliott D. Wise, Joanna Woodall, Michael Zell, and Steffen Zierholz.
Price: $259.00
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Intersections
Publication Date:
12 August 2026
ISBN: 9789004764477
Format: Hardcover
Walter S. Melion, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University, is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Foreign Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of three monographs, a critical edition of Karel van Mander’s Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting, co-author of two exhibition catalogues, editor or co-editor of more than 25 volumes, and has published more than 125 articles.
Michael Zell is Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Boston University. He has published widely on seventeenth-century Dutch artistic culture, with a particular focus on Rembrandt and Vermeer. He is the author of the books Rembrandt, Vermeer, and the Gift in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art (2021) and Reframing Rembrandt: Jews and the Christian Image in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam (2002), as well as co-editor with Walter S. Melion of ‘Ut pictura amor’: The Reflexive Imagery of Love in Artistic Theory and Practice, 1500–1700 (2017) and with Alan Chong of Rethinking Rembrandt (2002).
Michael Zell is Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Boston University. He has published widely on seventeenth-century Dutch artistic culture, with a particular focus on Rembrandt and Vermeer. He is the author of the books Rembrandt, Vermeer, and the Gift in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art (2021) and Reframing Rembrandt: Jews and the Christian Image in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam (2002), as well as co-editor with Walter S. Melion of ‘Ut pictura amor’: The Reflexive Imagery of Love in Artistic Theory and Practice, 1500–1700 (2017) and with Alan Chong of Rethinking Rembrandt (2002).