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Knots, or the Violence of Desire in Renaissance Florence
Engelsk
Bogcover for Knots, or the Violence of Desire in Renaissance Florence af Emanuele Lugli, 9780226822518
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
344
ISBN-13:
9780226822518
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0226822516
Udg. Dato:
7 mar 2023
Længde:
27mm
Bredde:
224mm
Højde:
150mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
7 mar 2023
Forfatter(e):

Knots, or the Violence of Desire in Renaissance Florence

Engelsk
Hardback
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An interdisciplinary study of hair through the art, philosophy, and science of fifteenth-century Florence. In this innovative cultural history, hair is the portal through which Emanuele Lugli accesses the cultural production of Lorenzo il Magnifico’s Florence. Lugli reflects on the ways writers, doctors, and artists expressed religious prejudices, health beliefs, and gender and class subjugation through alluring works of art, in medical and political writings, and in poetry. He considers what may have compelled Sandro Botticelli, the young Leonardo da Vinci, and dozens of their contemporaries to obsess over braids, knots, and hairdos by examining their engagement with scientific, philosophical, and theological practices.   By studying hundreds of fifteenth-century documents that engage with hair, Lugli foregrounds hair’s association to death and gathers insights about human life at a time when Renaissance thinkers redefined what it meant to be human and to be alive. Lugli uncovers overlooked perceptions of hair when it came to be identified as a potential vector for liberating culture, and he corrects a centuries-old prejudice that sees hair as a trivial subject, relegated to passing fashion or the decorative. He shows hair, instead, to be at the heart of Florentine culture, whose inherent violence Lugli reveals by prompting questions about the entanglement of politics and desire.  

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
344
ISBN-13:
9780226822518
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0226822516
Udg. Dato:
7 mar 2023
Længde:
27mm
Bredde:
224mm
Højde:
150mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
7 mar 2023
Forfatter(e):
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