The moving statues of seventeenth-century Amsterdam : automata, waxworks, fountains, labyrinths / Angela Vanhaelen

Englisch

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2022]

© 2022

x, 211 Seiten : Illustrationen

Literaturverzeichnis und Index

Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet (Rechtsgrundlage FID). UB Heidelberg

978-0-271-09140-2 hardback

978-0-271-09160-0 pbk.

*Amsterdam / Automat / Hydraulik / Plastik / Wachsfigur / Labyrinth / Geschichte 1600-1700

*Labyrinths -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- History -- 17th century ; Robots -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- History -- 17th century ; Wax figures -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- History -- 17th century ; Protestantism in art ; Fountains -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- History -- 17th century

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: SB475

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 629.8/9209492352

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.

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