{"product_id":"9781913107376","title":"Tudor Liveliness : Vivid Art in Post-Reformation England by Christina J Faraday","description":"A groundbreaking approach to the problem of realism in Tudor art ? In Tudor and Jacobean England, visual art was often termed \"lively.\" This word was used to describe the full range of visual and material culture-from portraits to funeral monuments, book illustrations to tapestry. To a modern viewer, this claim seems perplexing: what could \"liveliness\" have meant in a culture with seemingly little appreciation for illusionistic naturalism? And in a period supposedly characterised by fear of idolatry, how could \"liveliness\" have been a good thing? ? In this wide-ranging and innovative book, Christina Faraday excavates a uniquely Tudor model of vividness: one grounded in rhetorical techniques for creating powerful mental images for audiences. By drawing parallels with the dominant communicative framework of the day, Tudor Liveliness sheds new light on a lost mode of Tudor art criticism and appreciation, revealing how objects across a vast range of genres and contexts were taking part in the same intellectual and aesthetic conversations. By resurrecting a lost model for art theory, Faraday re-enlivens the vivid visual and material culture of Tudor and Jacobean England, recovering its original power to move, impress and delight.    ? Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56313161384309,"sku":"9781913107376","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781913107376.jpg?v=1762825711","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781913107376","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}