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On failure : error and defeat in Netherlandish art /

"This volume examines failure as a productive category in early modern Netherlandish art, demonstrating how error, risk, and defeat shaped artistic practice and cultural imagination. Rather than treating failure as a marginal or negative phenomenon, the contributions reveal its capacity to gene...

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Other Authors: Bussels, Stijn (Editor, Contributor), Grootenboer, Hanneke (Editor, Contributor), Keizer, Joost M. (Editor, Contributor), Seaman, Natasha T. (Editor, Contributor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2026]
Series:Nederlands kunsthistorisch jaarboek ; d. 76.
Subjects:
Art > Netherlands > Technique.
Art > Netherlands > Historiography.
Art, Netherlandish.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) > Psychological aspects.
Failure (Psychology) in art.
Art > Pays-Bas > Historiographie.
Échec dans l'art.
Art > Pays-Bas > Technique.
Art > Technique
Art > Historiography
Art, Netherlandish
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) > Psychological aspects
Failure (Psychology) in art
Netherlands
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Summary:"This volume examines failure as a productive category in early modern Netherlandish art, demonstrating how error, risk, and defeat shaped artistic practice and cultural imagination. Rather than treating failure as a marginal or negative phenomenon, the contributions reveal its capacity to generate innovation, provoke reflection, and question narratives of success. The book challenges triumphalist models of art history. It offers instead a recursive historiography that highlights the creative and cultural potential of failure."--
Physical Description:273 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9789004758339
900475833X
ISSN:0169-6726 ;