{"product_id":"fictions-of-the-pose-9780804733236","title":"Fictions of the Pose","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis lavishly illustrated reading of the structure and meaning of portraiture asks what happens when portraits are interpreted as imitations or likenesses not only of individuals but also of their acts of posing. Includes 84 illustrations, 40 in color.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Berger comes to art history from outside of art history, like fresh air through an open window.\" -- \u003ci\u003eCommon Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Specialists in the field should be interested in Berger's re-interpretation of particular portraits by Rembrandt and other artists. . . . More general readers can benefit from these summaries. . . .\" -- \u003ci\u003eCanadian Journal of History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  Part I. Early Modern Technologies and Politics of Representation and Their Consequences: 1. Technologies: the system of early modern painting  2. Politics: the apparatus of commissioned portraiture  3. Consequences: Sprezzatura and the Anxiety of self-representation  Part II. Facing the Gaze: 4. The face as index of the mind: art historians and the physiognomic fallacy  5. Physiognomy, mimetic idealism, and social change  6. Elias on physiognomic skepticism: Homo Clausus and the anxiety of representation  7. Lacan on the narcissism of orthopsychic desire  8. Fictions of the pose (1): the fiction of objectivity  9. Fictions of the pose (2): representing orthopsychic desire  Part III. The Embarrassment of Poses: On Dutch Portraiture: 10. Local matters  11. The posography of embarrassment: representational strategies in a decentralized class society  13. Rembrandt's embarrassment: an anatomy of group portraiture  Part IV. Rembrandt's Looking-Glass Theater: 14. Methodological interlude II: on self-portraits  15. Good boys and bad: orthopsychic comedy in the early self-portraits  16. Marking time: revisionary allusion in specular fictions  17. Rembrandt as Burgher: waiting for Maerten Soolmans  18. Methodological interlude III: texture versus facture  19. Specular fictions in two etchings  20. Married with Peacock: Saskia in Rembrandt's looking-glass theater  21. Methodological interlude IV: on revisionary allusion - Rembrandt against the Italian Renaissance  22. Rembrandt as courtier  23. Rembrandt in chains: the Medici self-portrait  24. Rembrandt in Venice: the patriarch  25. (Ef)facing the hand  26. The last laugh: or, something more.","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405530407255,"sku":"9780804733236","price":154.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fictions-of-the-pose-9780804733236","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}