Thinking bodies-shaping hands : handeling in art and theory of the late Rembrandtists / Yannis Hadjinicolaou.

Author
Hadjinicolaou, Yannis [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2019.
Description
1 online resource (377 pages).

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Subject(s)
Series
Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History; volume15. [More in this series]
Summary note
Thinking Bodies - Shaping Hands focuses on the critical as well as historical dimension of the handling of the brush and of the resulting appearance of colour on the painted surface in art and art theory from the middle of the 17th (above all from 1660) to the dawn of the 18th century in the Netherlands. More specifically, it deals with Rembrandt’s last pupils such as Arent de Gelder. „Handeling” describes an active, embodied process that is connected to the motion of the hand with the brush or with any other kind of tool. This term, up to now not sufficiently appreciated in scholarly literature, seems to be fruitful in this context. It is not so much connected with the term „style”, as with a prior step, which is equivalent to „manner”. At the same time, its meaning in Dutch till today is „action”. „Handeling” is an act that could be described as a „form-act”. It focuses on Formgestaltung, in which these actions themselves are understood as processes. Examining the „Rembrandtist ideology of painting”, this study attempts to reveal the embodied process of painting in the sense of a bodily articulation during the application of colour. This occurs within the productive tension between theory and practice.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Acknowledgements
  • Figures
  • Foreword / Werner Busch
  • Introduction
  • Between Formal and Stylistic Diversity – Handeling in the Art of the Late Rembrandtists
  • Primacy of the Hand
  • Art Materials
  • Facets of Handling the Paint
  • The Iconicity of Action
  • Proximity and Distance
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Names.
ISBN
90-04-40772-3
OCLC
1120724427
Doi
  • 10.1163/9789004407725
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