Dürer’s Monument for the Vanquished Peasants (1525) has presented itself as an interpretative enigma. Some have seen it as an act of mockery, as an attempt to discredit the misery of peasant life. Others interpret its forms as a passionate endorsement of the peasants’ cause. We are not interested in making another, even more precise interpretation of this design, in order to discover what Dürer might have really wanted to say. What we should ask is not “What does this monument mean?”, but “What is this monument capable of doing?
Amir, D. (2012). The Measure of Turmoil: on Albrecht Dürer's Monument to the Vanquished Peasants. SAN ROCCO, 4, 36-45.
The Measure of Turmoil: on Albrecht Dürer's Monument to the Vanquished Peasants
Amir Djalali
2012
Abstract
Dürer’s Monument for the Vanquished Peasants (1525) has presented itself as an interpretative enigma. Some have seen it as an act of mockery, as an attempt to discredit the misery of peasant life. Others interpret its forms as a passionate endorsement of the peasants’ cause. We are not interested in making another, even more precise interpretation of this design, in order to discover what Dürer might have really wanted to say. What we should ask is not “What does this monument mean?”, but “What is this monument capable of doing?I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
