{"product_id":"the-anthropomorphic-lens-anthropomorphism-microcosmism-and-analogy-in-early-modern-thought-and-visual-arts-9789004261709","title":"The Anthropomorphic Lens: Anthropomorphism, Microcosmism and Analogy in Early Modern Thought and Visual Arts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnthropomorphism – the projection of the human form onto the every aspect of the world – closely relates to early modern notions of analogy and microcosm. What had been construed in Antiquity as a ready metaphor for the order of creation was reworked into a complex system relating the human body to the body of the world.  Numerous books and images - cosmological diagrams, illustrated treatises of botany and zoology, maps, alphabets, collections of ornaments, architectural essays – are entirely constructed on the anthropomorphic analogy. Exploring the complexities inherent in such work, the interdisciplinary essays in this volume address how the anthropomorphic model is fraught with contradictions and tensions, between magical and rational, speculative and practical thought.   Contributors include Pamela Brekka, Anne-Laure van Bruaene, Ralph Dekoninck, Agnès Guiderdoni, Christopher P. Heuer, Sarah Kyle, Walter S. Melion, Christina Normore, Elizabeth Petcu, Bertrand Prevost, Bret Rothstein, Paul Smith, Miya Tokumitsu, Michel Weemans, and Elke Werner.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA “scintillating collection” and a “generous Kunstkammer of a book.” Martha Hollander, Hofstra University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 1 (Spring 2016), pp. 255-256.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations  Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors   Introduction  Michel Weemans and Bertrand Prévost  ANTHROPOMORPHISM AND THE ORDER OF THINGS  Delineating the Boundaries of the Human  1 Revolting Beasts: Animal Satire and Animal Trials in the Dutch Revolt  Anne-Laure van Bruaene  2 Monkey in the Middle  Christina Normore  3 Landscape and Body in Rabelais’s Gargantua and Pantagruel  Paul J. Smith  4 The Migrating Cannibal: Anthropophagy at Home and at the Edge of the World  Miya Tokumitsu  Empathy and the Constitution of the Self  5 Picturing the Soul, Living and Departed  Nathalie de Brézé  6 Patience Grows: The First Roots of Joris Hoefnagel’s Emblematic Art  Marisa Bass  7 The ‘Album Αmicorum’ and the Kaleidoscope of the Self: Notes on the Friendship Book of Jacob Heyblocq  Aneta Georgievska-Shine   Visualizing the Body Politic  8 Picturing the ‘Living’ Tabernacle in the Antwerp Polyglot Bible Pamela Merrill Brekka  9 A New Heraldry: Vision and Rhetoric in the ‘Carrara Herbal’ Sarah R. Kyle  10 Anthropomorphic Maps: On the Aesthetic Form and Political Function of Body Metaphors in the Early Modern Europe Discourse  Elke Anna Werner   FIGURATION AND SEMIOTIC POTENTIAL  Anthropomorphosis and Its Critics  11 Prodigies of Nature, Wonders of the Hand: Political Portents and Divine: Artifice in Haarlem ca. 1600 Walter S. Melion  12 Between Fiction and Reality: The Image Body in the Early Modern Theory of the Symbol Ralph Dekoninck  Anthropomorphosis and Its Conditions  13 Anthropomorphizing the Orders: ‘Terms’ of Architectural Eloquence in the Northern Renaissance  Elizabeth J. Petcu  14 Visage-paysage. Problème de peinture  Bertrand Prévost  Figuring the Impossible  15 Nobody’s Bruegel Christopher P. Heuer  16 Morbid Fascination: Death by Bruegel Larry Silver  Metamorphic Figuration  17 Jan van Hemessen’s Anatomy of Parody Bret L. Rothstein  18 The Smoke of Sacrifice: Anthropomorphism and Figure in Karel van Mallery’s ‘Sacrifice of Cain and Abel’ for Louis Richeome’s ‘Tableaux Sacrez’ (1601)  Michel Weemans  Index Nominum  List of Illustrations","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210644480343,"sku":"9789004261709","price":181.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-anthropomorphic-lens-anthropomorphism-microcosmism-and-analogy-in-early-modern-thought-and-visual-arts-9789004261709","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}