Games and Game Playing in European Art and Literature, 16th-17th Centuries (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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- the essays address two main questions: how were games used to convey special meanings in art and literature; and, how did games speak to greater issues in European society? - in chapters dealing with chess, playing cards, game prints, dice, gambling, and outdoor and sportive games, essayists show how games were used by artists, writers, game makers and collectors in the service of love and war, didactic and moralistic instruction, commercial enterprise, politics and diplomacy, and assertions of civic and personal identity. - offering innovative iconographical and literary interpretations these analyses reveal how games played, written about, illustrated, and collected functioned as metaphors for a host of broader cultural issues related to gender relations and feminine power, class distinction and status, ethical and sexual comportment, philosophical and religious ideas, and conditions of the mind