Dürer's Knots

Early European Print and the Islamic East

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Dackerman, Susan

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200 Seiten

Englisch

Princeton Univers. Presserschienen am10.09.2024

An important new examination of Islamic themes in the art of Albrecht DürerAlbrecht Dürer´s depictions of Muslim figures and subjects are considered by many to be among his most perplexing images. This confusion arises from the assumption that the artist and his northern European contemporaries regarded the Muslim Levant as an exotic faraway land inhabited by hostile adversaries, not a region of neighboring empires affiliated through political and mercantile networks. Susan Dackerman casts Dürer´s art in an entirely new light, focusing on prints that portray cooperation between the Muslim and Christian worlds rather than conflict and war, enabling us to better understand early modern Europe through its visual culture.In this beautifully illustrated book, Dackerman provides new readings of three of the artist´s most enigmatic print projects-Sea Monster, Knots, and Landscape with Cannon-situating them within historical contexts that reflect productive collaborations between Christendom and Islam, from the artistic and commercial to the ideological and political. Dackerman notes how Gutenberg´s development of printing shares an inextricable relationship to the 1453 Ottoman siege of Constantinople. While Gutenberg´s workshop produced a call to crusade and other publications antagonistic to the Muslim East, Dürer´s prints, she shows, instead emphasize instances of affiliation between Christendom and Islam.A breathtaking work of scholarship, Dürer´s Knots shows how the artist´s prints of Muslim subjects give expression to the interconnectedness of Christian Europe and the Islamic East.mehr

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KlappentextAn important new examination of Islamic themes in the art of Albrecht DürerAlbrecht Dürer´s depictions of Muslim figures and subjects are considered by many to be among his most perplexing images. This confusion arises from the assumption that the artist and his northern European contemporaries regarded the Muslim Levant as an exotic faraway land inhabited by hostile adversaries, not a region of neighboring empires affiliated through political and mercantile networks. Susan Dackerman casts Dürer´s art in an entirely new light, focusing on prints that portray cooperation between the Muslim and Christian worlds rather than conflict and war, enabling us to better understand early modern Europe through its visual culture.In this beautifully illustrated book, Dackerman provides new readings of three of the artist´s most enigmatic print projects-Sea Monster, Knots, and Landscape with Cannon-situating them within historical contexts that reflect productive collaborations between Christendom and Islam, from the artistic and commercial to the ideological and political. Dackerman notes how Gutenberg´s development of printing shares an inextricable relationship to the 1453 Ottoman siege of Constantinople. While Gutenberg´s workshop produced a call to crusade and other publications antagonistic to the Muslim East, Dürer´s prints, she shows, instead emphasize instances of affiliation between Christendom and Islam.A breathtaking work of scholarship, Dürer´s Knots shows how the artist´s prints of Muslim subjects give expression to the interconnectedness of Christian Europe and the Islamic East.

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ISBN/GTIN978-0-691-25044-1

ProduktartBuch

EinbandartGebunden

FormatEinband für den Einzelhandel

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Princeton Univers. Press

Erscheinungsjahr2024

Erscheinungsdatum10.09.2024

Seiten200 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

MasseBreite 221 mm, Höhe 282 mm, Dicke 20 mm