عنوان

Peasant scenes and landscapes :

(Number (ISBN

0812238680 (cloth : alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

9780812238686

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b415456

Title Proper

Peasant scenes and landscapes :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the rise of pictorial genres in the Antwerp art market /

First Statement of Responsibility

Larry Silver

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Philadelphia :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Pennsylvania Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c2006

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xvii, 373 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Dimensions

26 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-351) and index

Text of Note

Introduction: "Cultural selection" and the origins of pictorial species. -- Antwerp as a cultural system. -- Town and country: painted worlds of early landscapes. -- Money matters. -- Kitchens and markets. -- Labor and leisure: the peasant. -- Second Bosch: family resemblance and the marketing of art. -- Descent from Bruegel I: from Flanders to Holland. -- Descent from Bruegel II: Flemish friends and family. -- Trickle-down genres: the "curious" cases of flowers and seascapes. -- Conclusions: Value and values in the capital of capitalism.

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"In Peasant Scenes and Landscapes, Larry Silver examines the emergence of pictorial kinds - scenes of taverns and markets, landscapes and peasants - and charts their evolution as genres from initial hybrids to more conventionalized artistic formulas. The relationship of these new genres and their favorite themes is linked to cultural issues of ultimate significance and reflects a burgeoning urbanism and capitalism in Antwerp. Silver analyzes how pictorial genres and the Antwerp marketplace fostered the development of what has come to be known as "signature" artistic style. By examining Bosch and Bruegel, together with their imitators, he focuses on pictorial innovation as well as the marketing of individual styles, attending particularly to the growing practice of artists signing their works. In addition, he argues that consumer interest in the style of individual artists reinforced another phenomenon of the later sixteenth century: art collecting. While today we take such typical artistic formulas as commonplace, along with their frequent use of identifying signatures (a Rothko, a Pollock), Peasant Scenes and Landscapes shows how these developed simultaneously in the commercial world of early modern Antwerp."--BOOK JACKET.

Art and society-- Belgium-- Antwerp-- History-- 16th century

Art-- Economic aspects-- Belgium-- Antwerp-- History-- 16th century

Genre painting, Flemish-- Belgium-- Antwerp-- 16th century

Landscape painting, Flemish-- Belgium-- Antwerp-- 16th century

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Edition

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Book number

Silver, Larry,1947-

Date of Transaction

20060118112802.0

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[Book]

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