Yvonne Owens

Abject Eroticism in Northern Renaissance Art

The Witches and Femmes Fatales of Hans Baldung Grien. Sprachen: Englisch. 23,4 cm / 15,6 cm / 1,7 cm ( B/H/T )
Buch (Softcover), 312 Seiten
EAN 9781350283503
Veröffentlicht Juli 2022
Verlag/Hersteller Bloomsbury 3PL
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Hans Baldung Grien, the most famous apprentice and close friend of German artist Albrecht Dürer, was known for his unique and highly eroticised images of witches. In paintings and woodcut prints, he gave powerful visual expression to late medieval tropes and stereotypes, such as the poison maiden, venomous virgin, the Fall of Man, 'death and the maiden' and other motifs and eschatological themes, which mingled abject and erotic qualities in the female body.
Yvonne Owens reads these images against the humanist intellectual milieu of Renaissance Germany, showing how classical and medieval medicine and natural philosophy interpreted female anatomy as toxic, defective and dangerously beguiling. She reveals how Hans Baldung exploited this radical polarity to create moralising and titillating portrayals of how monstrous female sexuality victimised men and brought them low. Furthermore, these images issued from-and contributed to-the contemporary understanding of witchcraft as a heresy that stemmed from natural 'feminine defect,' a concept derived from Aristotle. Offering new and provocative interpretations of Hans Baldung's iconic witchcraft imagery, this book is essential reading for historians of art, culture and gender relations in the late medieval and early modern periods.

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Yvonne Owens writes art history, emotional histories, philosophy of art, and creative critical studies. Her publications to date have mainly focused on representations of women and the gendering of evil "defect" in classical humanist discourses, cross-referencing these figures to historical art, theology, literature, and the sciences. She also writes cultural criticism, exploring contemporary post-humanist discourses in art, literature and new media. She is currently exploring the intersections among science, the sacred and the arts.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations Foreword by Joseph Leo Koerner Introduction: Baldung's Polluted Witches, Poison Maids, Basilisks and Crones 1. The Abject Erotic Feminine in Baldung 2. The World of Baldung's 1510 Witches' Sabbath 3. Baldung's 'Jewish' Witches 4. Baldung and the Witch Doctors 5. Blood, Visions, Witch Women and Saints 6. Baldung and the Morality of Vision 7. Classical Reception, Toxic Femininity and Hippomanes 8. Humanist Humour in Baldung 9. Erudite Obscenities and Pious Pornography Conclusion Acknowledgments Endnotes Index

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