Visualizing Portuguese Power: The Political Use of Images in Portugal and its Overseas Empire (16th–18th Century) (Bilder-Diskurs) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 3037347422 ISBN 13: 9783037347423

Verlag: DIAPHANES, 2016

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Images have always played a vital role in political communication and in the visualization of power structures and hierarchies. They gain even more importance in situations where non-verbal communication prevails: In the negotiation processes between two (or more) different cultures, the language of the visual is often thought of as the most effective way to acquaint (and overpower) the others with one’s own principles, beliefs, and value systems. Scores of these asymmetrical exchange situations have taken place in the Portuguese overseas empire since its gradual expansion in the 16th century.
This book offers new insights into the broad and differentiated spectrum of functions images could assume in political contexts in those areas dominated by the Portuguese in early modern times. How were objects and artifacts staged and handled to generate new layers of meaning and visualize political ideas and concepts? And what were the respective reasons, means, and effects of the visualization of Portuguese power and politics?

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Urte Krass ist Wissenschaftliche Assistentin am Institut für Kunstgeschichte der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Ihre Forschungen widmen sich dem Heiligenbild von der Ikone bis zur Fotografie, der frühen Kunsttheorie in italienischen Novellen des 14. Jahrhunderts sowie aktuell dem politischen Bildgebrauch im portugiesischen Kolonialreich in der Frühen Neuzeit.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: DIAPHANES
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3037347422
• ISBN 13: 9783037347423
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 312
• Herausgeber: Urte Krass
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