Dürer and his Culture

by Edited by Dagmar Eichberger , Charles Zika

• ISBN13: 9780521620376
• ISBN10: 0521620376
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-08-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This collection extends and deepens understanding of the political, social, and cultural contexts through which the meanings of Dürer's works can be perceived, and focuses on images which provide insights into his rich cultural milieu. Expanding views of nature and landscape, cultural strategies of collecting, the construction of national cultural identity, the humanist concern for a moral life, the transgressions of sexual order, and the gendered rituals of courtship are just some of the contemporary discourses and practices to which Dürer's works are linked. Also discussed is the manner in which images were viewed in the early-sixteenth century, and the powers and dangers with which they were associated, and the collection concludes with an appreciation of the changing historical role which Dürer himself has had within the European cultural tradition.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix	(6)
List of contributors	xv	(2)
Acknowledgements	xvii
I Durer and his culture-an introduction	1	(10)
DAGMAR EICHBERGER
CHARLES ZIKA
PART ONE ARTIST AND ENVIRONMENT	11	(80)
2 Naturalia and artefacta: Durer's nature drawings and early collecting	13	(25)
DAGMAR EICHBERGER
3 Germanic patriotism in the age of Durer	38	(31)
LARRY SILVER
4 The Michelfeldt Tapestry and contemporary European literature	69	(22)
WIM HUSKEN
PART TWO IMAGE AND AUDIENCE	91	(50)
5 Ways of seeing in the age of Durer	93	(25)
BOB SCRIBNER
6 Durer's witch, riding women and moral order	118	(23)
CHARLES ZIKA
PART THREE COMMUNAL CULTURE AND REPRESENTATION	141	(38)
7 Tokens of affection: the meanings of love in sixteenth-century Germany	143	(21)
LYNDAL ROPER
8 The censorship of images in Nuremberg, 1521-1527	164	(15)
CHRISTIANE ANDERSSON
PART FOUR DURER AND THE CANON	179	(32)
9 Changing German perceptions of the historical role of Albrecht Durer	181	(19)
PAUL MUNCH
10 The making of Durer in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria	200	(11)
IRENA ZDANOWICZ
Notes	211	(26)
Select bibliography: Albrecht Durer (1971-1997)	237	(14)
DAGMAR EICHBERGER
CHARLES ZIKA
Index	251