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Household Servants and Slaves
A Visual History, 1300–1700
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This scholarly work will appeal to readers interested in art history, social history, cultural studies, and those seeking to understand the visual representation of service and servitude from a historical perspective.
The first book-length study of household servants and slaves, exploring a visual history over 400 years and four continents
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The first book-length study of household servants and slaves, exploring a visual history over 400 years and four continents
The first book-length study of both images of ordinary household workers and their material culture, Household Servants and Slaves: A Visual History, 1300–1700 covers four hundred years and four continents, facilitating a better understanding of the changes in service that occurred as Europe developed a monetary economy, global trade, and colonialism.
Diane Wolfthal presents new interpretations of artists including the Limbourg brothers, Albrecht Dürer, Paolo Veronese, and Diego Velázquez, but also explores numerous long-neglected objects, including independent portraits of ordinary servants, servant dolls and their miniature cleaning utensils, and dummy boards, candlesticks, and tablestands in the form of servants and slaves.
Wolfthal analyzes the intersection of class, race, and gender while also interrogating the ideology of service, investigating both the material conditions of household workers’ lives and the immaterial qualities with which they were associated. If images repeatedly relegated servants to the background, then this book does the reverse: it foregrounds these figures in order to better understand the ideological and aesthetic functions that they served.
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Critics find the topic absorbing and appreciate the nuanced exploration of service roles over time. Art Newspaper notes the complexity of categorisation Wolfthal acknowledges, while Literary Review highlights her focus on the invisibility and inferiority of servants and her search for exceptions to this in European art.
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ISBN: 9780300234879
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 12 April 2022
Country: United States
Imprint: Yale University Press
Illustration: 170 color illus.
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 169.0mm
Height: 241.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 272
About the Author
Diane Wolfthal is David and Caroline Minter Chair emerita in the Humanities and professor emerita of art history at Rice University.
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