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

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Vanhaelen, Angela
Published
University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2022]
Copyright Date
©2022
Physical Description
x, 211 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm

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Contents
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.
Summary
"Explores the visual and cultural history of Amsterdam in the early modern era, focusing on the doolhoven: winding mazes behind pubs and taverns that featured pleasure gardens, waterworks, wax galleries, and automata"--
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ISBN
9780271091402 (hardback)
0271091401 (hardback)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-200) and index.
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