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Thinking Bodies - Shaping Hands focuses on the critical as well as historical dimension of the handling of the brush and of the resulting appearance of colour on the painted surface in art and art theory from the middle of the 17th (above all from 1660) to the dawn of the 18th century in the Netherlands. More specifically, it deals with Rembrandt’s last pupils such as Arent de Gelder. „Handeling” describes an active, embodied process that is connected to the motion of the hand with the brush or with any other kind of tool. This term, up to now not sufficiently appreciated in scholarly literature, seems to be fruitful in this context. It is not so much connected with the term „style”, as with a prior step, which is equivalent to „manner”. At the same time, its meaning in Dutch till today is „action”. „Handeling” is an act that could be described as a „form-act”. It focuses on Formgestaltung, in which these actions themselves are understood as processes. Examining the „Rembrandtist ideology of painting”, this study attempts to reveal the embodied process of painting in the sense of a bodily articulation during the application of colour. This occurs within the productive tension between theory and practice.

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Author:   Yannis Hadjinicolaou
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   15
Weight:   1.147kg
ISBN:  

9789004353848

ISBN 10:   9004353844
Pages:   356
Publication Date:   25 October 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Figures Foreword Introduction 1 Between Formal and Stylistic Diversity – Handeling in the Art of the Late Rembrandtists  Handeling: a Historical Account of the Term  Formal Diversity  Stylistic Diversity 2 Primacy of the Hand  The Thinking Hand  ‘Artisan’ by Conviction  Handeling as Habitus 3 Art Materials  Paint as Plastic Material  Paint as Impasto Relief  Natural and Artificial Processes of Materials 4 Facets of Handling the Paint  The Unfinished as a Principle  Playing with Accident  Contradictory Dynamism 5 The Iconicity of Action  Motion  Action  Between Empathy and Distance – Exciting Emotions by Corporeal Techniques 6 Proximity and Distance  From the Amorphous to the Manifestation of Form  The Relationship between Haptics and Optics  The Dissolution of the Opposite Poles of Proximity and Distance Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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"Yannis Hadjinicolaou, Ph.D. (2014), Freie Universität Berlin, is a research associate at the international research project ""Bilderfahrzeuge. Aby Warburg´s Legacy and the Future of Iconology"", Warburg Haus (Institute of Art History, University of Hamburg). He has published three edited volumes and articles on art and art theory of the early modern period, the political iconography of falconry and the theory and history of art history as well as synagonism in the arts."

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