Classical Rhetoric and the Visual Arts in Early Modern Europe

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-107-68785-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 225 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 456 g

In this book, Caroline van Eck examines how rhetoric and the arts interacted in early modern Europe. She argues that rhetoric, though originally developed for persuasive speech, has always used the visual as an important means of persuasion, and hence offers a number of strategies and concepts for visual persuasion as well. The book is divided into three major sections - theory, invention, and design. Van Eck analyzes how rhetoric informed artistic practice, theory, and perception in early modern Europe. This is the first full-length study to look at the issue of visual persuasion in both architecture and the visual arts, and to investigate what roles rhetoric played in visual persuasion, both from the perspective of artists and that of viewers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Van Eck, Caroline

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunst: Rezeption, Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprechwissenschaft, Rhetorik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: rhetoric and the visual; Part I. Theory: 1. Gesture, representation and persuasion in Alberti's De Pictura; 2. Theoretical foundations of persuasive architecture: Barbaro, Spini and Scamozzi; Part II. Invention: 3. How to achieve persuasion in painting: the common ground; 4. Visual persuasion in British architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; Part III. Interpretation: 5. Rhetorical interpretation of the visual arts; 6. Only the human can speak to man: rhetorical interpretations of architecture.

Über Autor(innen)

Van Eck, Caroline
Caroline van Eck is professor of the history and theory of architecture at Leiden University in The Netherlands. She has received fellowships from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the British Council, and in 2004 was the first art historian to be awarded a prestigious VICI grant from the Dutch Foundation of Scientific Research (NWO). She is the author of Dealing with the Visual: Aesthetics: Art History and Visual Culture and The Concept of Style in Philosophy and the Arts, among other books and articles.