Enveloping objects : allegory and commodity fetish in Wenceslaus Hollar's personifications of the seasons and fashion still lifes

Author

Monteyne, Joseph

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Art history. 2006, Num. 3, Vol. 29, 414-443, 530, 18 ill.

ISSN

0141-6790

Abstract (en)

Discusses a cycle of etchings produced by Wenceslaus Hollar in the 1640s while he was in London. The cycle uses contemporary female figures as allegories of the seasons and was followed by another series of still lifes depicting fashion accessories, in which fur muffs appear repeatedly. The article focuses on the connections between the personifications of winter and the still lifes. The fur muff in these etchings is shown to be an enigmatic entity, not only intersecting with issues related to fetishism, eroticism and urban space in early modern London, but poised on a threshold between different economies of the object, between residual classical and medieval systems of representation and newly emergent anxieties about the commodity and exchange value.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- Pictorial arts -- Prints and illustration -- Czech Republic
• Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677
• Etching
• Personification
• Seasons
• Still life
• Costume accessories
• Muffs
• Allegory
• London (GBR)
• Commodities
• Fetishism
• Bohemia
• Czech Republic
• 1600-1700
• Prints

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Estampe et illustration -- République Tchèque
• Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677
• Eau-forte
• Personnification
• Saisons
• Nature morte
• Accessoire de mode
• Manchon
• Allégorie
• London (GBR)
• Marchandise
• Fétichisme
• Bohême
• République tchèque
• 1600-1700
• Estampe

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier20060701-00026478

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