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OXFORD ART JOURNAL: EARLY MODERN HORROR SPECIAL ISSUE VOLUME 34 NUMBER 3

by Maria H. Loh; David Young Kim; Bronwen Wilson; et al

Published by Oxford University Press. 2011

Nearly fine condition. A series of essays on the relationship between early horror and art. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w illustrations.

A few minor marks to rear cover else very nice copy, little read.

Stock no. 1830924

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Contents

  • Early Modern Horror
  • Introduction: Early Modern Horror
  • The horror of Mimesis
  • The Appeal of Horror: Francesco Cairo's Herodias and the Head of John the Baptist
  • The Face of a Friend: Convulsion, Inversion and the Horror of the Disempowered Body
  • Outscreaming the Laocoon: Sensation, Special Affects, and the Moving Image
  • Wonderful Creatures: Early modern perceptions, of Deformed Bodies
  • The Horror or Touch: Anna Morandi's Wax Models of Hands
  • Reproductive Horror: Sixteenth-Century Mexican Pictures in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
  • Reviews
  • Chronotopologies of Art History
  • Identity Crisis
  • Eyes Wide Shut or the Renaissance of Sex
  • Painting from Life
  • The Paradox of Still Life
  • Visual Anorexia in Early Modern British Print Culture
  • Abstracts
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Noes for Contributors

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