Liberal Arts Faculty Books
Title
Bodies and Maps: Early Modern Personifications of the Continents
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Description
Since antiquity, artists have visualized the known world through the female (sometimes male) body. In the age of exploration, America was added to figures of Europe, Asia, and Africa who would come to inhabit the borders of geographical visual imagery. In the abundance of personifications in print, painting, ceramics, tapestry, and sculpture, do portrayals vary between hierarchy and global human dignity? Are we witnessing the emergence of ethnography or of racism? Yet, as this volume shows, depictions of bodies as places betray the complexity of human claims and desires. Bodies and Maps: Early Modern Personifications of the Continents opens up questions about early modern politics, travel literature, sexualities, gender, processes of making, and the mobility of forms and motifs. Contributors are: Louise Arizzoli, Elisa Daniele, Hilary Haakenson, Elizabeth Horodowich, Maryanne Cline Horowitz, Ann Rosalind Jones, Paul H. D. Kaplan, Marion Romberg, Mark Rosen, Benjamin Schmidt, Chet Van Duzer, Bronwen Wilson, and Michael Wintle.
Publication Date
12-10-2020
Relational Format
book
Department
Art and Art History
Recommended Citation
Horowitz, Maryanne Cline and Arizzoli, Louise, "Bodies and Maps: Early Modern Personifications of the Continents" (2020). Liberal Arts Faculty Books. 238.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/libarts_book/238
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