Games and Game Playing in European Art and Literature, 16th-17th Centuries
Robin O'Bryan (Redaktør) Naomi Lebens (Innledning) Megan Herrold (Innledning) Kevin Chovanec (Innledning) Patricia Rocco (Innledning) Bethany Packard (Innledning) Mark Kaethler (Innledning) Giovanna Guidicini (Innledning) Greger Sundin (Innledning)
This collection of essays examines the vogue for games and game playing as expressed in art and literature in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe. Focusing on games as a leitmotif of creative expression, these scholarly inquiries are framed as a response to two main questions: how were games used to convey special meanings in art and literature, and how did games speak to greater issues in European society? In chapters dealing with chess, playing cards, board games, dice, gambling, and outdoor and sportive games, essayists show how games were used by artists, writers, game makers and collectors, in the service of love and war, didactic and moralistic instruction, commercial enterprise, politics and diplomacy, and assertions of civic and personal identity. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Amsterdam University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9789463728119
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 24 x 17 cm