Manhood, Marriage, and Mischief: Rembrandt's 'Night Watch' and Other Dutch Group Portraits

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This study of the theory and practice of seventeenth-century Dutch group portraits offers an account of the genre's comic and ironic features. It treats these features as comments on the social context of portrait sitters who are husbands and householders as well as members of civic and proto-military organizations. It culminates in a reading of Rembrandt's The Night Watch, which the author interprets, partly in generic terms, partly on more specific historical grounds, as both an expressly deliberate parody by ...
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Overview

This study of the theory and practice of seventeenth-century Dutch group portraits offers an account of the genre's comic and ironic features. It treats these features as comments on the social context of portrait sitters who are husbands and householders as well as members of civic and proto-military organizations. It culminates in a reading of Rembrandt's The Night Watch, which the author interprets, partly in generic terms, partly on more specific historical grounds, as both an expressly deliberate parody by the sitters and the artist's covert parody of the sitters.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780823225576
  • Publisher: Fordham University Press
  • Publication date: 4/16/2006
  • Edition description: 2
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 192
  • Product dimensions: 8.90 (w) x 7.90 (h) x 0.50 (d)

Meet the Author

Harry Berger, Jr. is Professor Emeritus of Literature and Art History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His most recent books include Fictions of the Pose: Rembrandt Against the Italian Renaissance; Situated Utterances: Texts, Bodies, and Cultural Representations; and Manhood, Marriage, and Mischief: Rembrandt's Night Watchand Other Dutch Group Portraits (the latter two from Fordham).

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Table of Contents


Illustrations     xi
Preface     xv
Introduction: A Shot in the Dark     1
Group Portraits and the Fictions of the Pose
Toward the Interpretation of Performance Anxiety     11
Portraiture and the Fictions of the Pose     15
The Posographical Imperative: A Comparison of Genres     25
Group Portraiture: Coming Together and Coming Apart     47
Alois Riegl and the Posographical Imperative     85
Performance Anxiety and the Belated Viewer     105
Militias and Marriage
Male Bondage and the Military Imperative     113
Social Sources of Performance Anxiety     125
Picturing Family Values
The Preacher's Wife     141
Women with Elbows     147
Families Making Music     163
'The Night Watch' as Homosocial Pastoral
The Night Watch: How the Sandbank Crumbles     177
Evasive Action: Three Ways to Shore Up the Sandbank     181
Captain Cocq and the Unruly Musketeer     185
Disaggregation as Class Conflict     191
Manual Mischief: The Loneliness of the Red Musketeer     195
Between Stad and Stadholder: Captain Cocq's Dilemma     203
Posographical Misfires     209
An Odd Couple: The Ghost of Anslo's Wife     217
Coda: Playing Soldier     221
Notes     227
Index     267
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