TY - BOOK ID - 10836484 TI - Artful armies, beautiful battles : art and warfare in early modern Europe PY - 2002 VL - 9 SN - 09280731 SN - 9789004115880 9004115889 9789004476561 9004476563 PB - Leiden: Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Art and war. KW - Art, European KW - War in art. KW - Art and war KW - War in art KW - Art, Modern KW - European art KW - Nouveaux reĢalistes (Group of artists) KW - Zaj (Group of artists) KW - War and art KW - Art and history KW - Art and state KW - Art, European - 16th century KW - Art, European - 17th century UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:10836484 AB - Warfare, and the circumstances surrounding it, have often provided important impulses for cultural production. This book explores the relationship between warfare and image-making in the early modern period. Rather than dealing with images simply as reproductions of actual events, the volume demonstrates complex processes by which political, national and social identities are negotiated and fashioned in warfare imagery. The book analyses three main issues: the impact of war on art, the ways in which warfare imagery supports dominant ideologies, and the manner in which such imagery also constructs alternative identities. The essays offer a broad range of methodologies while dealing with a wide array of chronological, geographical and artistic materials. Historians and art historians will find this volume particularly useful in its nuanced examination of the relationship between art and history. ER -