Frontispieces as framing devices: understanding the book from its borders (Antwerp, 1600-1650)
(2014) Renaissance Society of America, 60th Annual Meeting — Location: New-York (27.March.2014)
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- Material device allowing the delimitation and the institution of the work of art, the frame is also a process by which the passage from the real to the fictional space is allowed. At the same time boundary and entrance, it thus embodies a dialogical authority between the spectator and the represented space, where a hermeneutic discourse can take place. Then, it seems that this notion of frame meets perfectly the stakes connected to the functions and the uses of the frontispiece in the first half of the XVIIth century, which have to identify, announce, recommend, synthetize and comment the book. So, we shall try to show how this inaugural element, at first thought as a rhetorical supplement capable of persuading the reader, becomes, by a play on the disappearance and the transgression of the borders, an authority allowing to think and to experience the book.
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Lemmens, A. (2014). Frontispieces as framing devices: understanding the book from its borders (Antwerp, 1600-1650). Renaissance Society of America, 60th Annual Meeting, New-York. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/195262