The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam : Automata, Waxworks, Fountains, Labyrinths /
This book opens a window onto a fascinating and understudied aspect of the visual, material, intellectual, and cultural history of seventeenth-century Amsterdam: the role played by its inns and taverns, specifically the doolhoven.Doolhoven were a type of labyrinth unique to early modern Amsterdam. O...
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| 语言: | 英语 |
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University Park, PA :
Penn State University Press,
[2022]
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| 在线阅读: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3878720 |
书本目录:
- Introduction. The closed door : walking in
- Ritual routes. The courtyard fountain : Bacchic rites ; Into the labyrinth : containing the human monster
- The moving statue strikes. Automata : activating human behavior ; Strange things for strangers : transcultural automata
- Protestant paganism. Wax portraits : body politics ; Time machines in the golden age : the Kairos of clockwork
- Epilogue : obsolescence.