Emblems from Alciato to the Tattoo

Selected Papers of the Leuven International Emblem Conference, 18-23 August, 1996

Edited by P Daly Edited by J Manning Edited by M Van Vaeck

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Extent: 376, 376 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: Art & Art History, Literary Studies

Language: English

(Hardback) (Published)

(May 2002)

ISBN: 9782503509716

Price: $88.00

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This collection of essays reflects the various manifestations of the emblem in cultural forms ranging from the first appearance of printed books in the sixteenth century to the very recent visual equivalents in modern advertising and tattoos.


This collection of essays reflects the various manifestations of the emblem in cultural forms ranging from the first appearance of printed books in the sixteenth century to very recent visual equivalents in modern advertising and tattoos. The essays are revised versions of papers presented at the Fourth International Conference held at Leuven in 1996. The table of contents provides an overview of the variety of topics and approaches represented in the volume.

The First Representatives of the Genre Monika Grunberg-Droge, 'The 1546 Venice Edition of Andrea Alciato's Emblemata'; Alison Adams and Stephen Rawles, 'Jean de Tournes and the Theatre des bons engins'; Anne Rolet, 'De l'explicite a l'indicible: jeu litteraire et discours philosophiques dans le 'Symbolon'28 des Quaestiones Symbolicae d'Achille Bocchi (1555)' Emblem Theory: Ancient and Modern Denis L. Drysdall, 'Presence and Absence of Ramus in Mignault's Emblematics and Poetics'; Anne-Elisabeth Spica, 'Pour une rhetorique du symbole: questions de methodologie a partir du traitement emblematique de la Vanite' The Emblem Tradition and the World of Learning and Education Johannes Kohler, 'Marginalien im Emblematum Liber von Andrea Alciato. Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbuttel P572.8Y Helmstedt'; Thea Vignau-Wilberg, 'Patientia: Humanistische uberlebungsstrategie im 16 Jahrhundert'; Christian Bouzy, 'L'emblematique dans le Tesoro de la lengua de Sebastian de Covarrubias: a la devise du cerf'; Patricia Hardin, 'Pedagogical Emblems in Andreas Gryphius' Schuldramen' Epideictic and Polemical Emblems Wolfgang Harms, 'Emblemata secreta. Anonyme emblematische Versandungen uber politische Ereignisse von 1620 bis 1630 unter pfalzisch-reformierten Autoren'; Gilbert Hess, 'Rezeption und Produktion von Emblemen im Stammbuch'; Gerhard F. Strasser, 'Ein 'dreistandiges Sinnbild' oder dreifaches emblematisches Hochzeitgedicht aus der Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts'; Werner Vogler, 'Emblematische Festschrift fur Kardinal Colestin Sfondrati von 1696' The Emblem Tradition and Modern Culture Jochen Becker, 'Auferstanden aus Ruinen: Zu einem monumentalen Denkmalentwurf van Jacques Loeis David'; Jean Michel Massing, 'Washing the Ethiopian or the Semantics of an Impossibility'; Sabine Moderheim, 'Skin Deep-Mind Deep. Emblematics and Modern Tattoos'; Piotr Rypson, 'The Emblematic Mode in Twentieth Century Art'

  • Edited by P Daly
  • Edited by J Manning
  • Edited by M Van Vaeck