History of Art and Visual Culture

HAVC 189W Performance Anxiety in 17th-Century Dutch Painting: Portraits, Still Lifes, and Other Genres

The acts of posing and painting, called portraits, studied as aesthetic performances within a system of genres and as representational strategies that respond to peculiar instabilities—social, political, and economic—of the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years' War.

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Harry Berger