Manhood, Marriage, and Mischief : : Rembrandt's 'Night Watch' and Other Dutch Group Portraits / / Harry Berger.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• VerfasserIn: Berger, Harry,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.) :; 42 color and 58 black and white illustrations

A study of the theory and practice of seventeenth-century Dutch group portraits, Manhood, Marriage, and Mischief offers an account of the genre’s comic and ironic features, which it treats as comments on the social context of portrait sitters who are husbands and householders as well as members of c...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Preface
• Introduction: A Shot in the Dark
• Part One. Group portraits and the fictions of the pose
• 1 Toward the Interpretation of Performance Anxiety
• 2 Portraiture and the Fictions of the Pose
• 3 The Posographical Imperative: A Comparison of Genres
• 4 Group Portraiture: Coming Together and Coming Apart
• 5 Alois Riegl and the Posographical Imperative
• 6 Performance Anxiety and the Belated Viewer
• Part Two. Militias and marriage
• 7 Male Bondage and the Military Imperative
• 8 Social Sources of Performance Anxiety
• Part Three. Picturing family values
• 9 The Preacher’s Wife
• 10 Women with Elbows
• 11 Families Making Music
• Part Four ‘The night watch’ as homosocial pastoral
• 12 The Night Watch: How the Sandbank Crumbles
• 13 Evasive Action: Three Ways to Shore Up the Sandbank
• 14 Captain Cocq and the Unruly Musketeer
• 15 Disaggregation as Class Conflict
• 16 Manual Mischief: The Loneliness of the Red Musketeer
• 17 Between Stad and Stadholder: Captain Cocq’s Dilemma
• 18 Posographical Misfires
• 19 An Odd Couple: The Ghost of Anslo’s Wife
• Coda: Playing Soldier
• Notes
• Index