Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Preface xiii
5. Introduction: A Shot in the Dark 1
6. Part One. Group portraits and the fictions of the pose
7. 1 Toward the Interpretation of Performance Anxiety 9
8. 2 Portraiture and the Fictions of the Pose 15
9. 3 The Posographical Imperative: A Comparison of Genres 25
10. 4 Group Portraiture: Coming Together and Coming Apart 47
11. 5 Alois Riegl and the Posographical Imperative 85
12. 6 Performance Anxiety and the Belated Viewer 105
13. Part Two. Militias and marriage
14. 7 Male Bondage and the Military Imperative 111
15. 8 Social Sources of Performance Anxiety 125
16. Part Three. Picturing family values
17. 9 The Preacher’s Wife 139
18. 10 Women with Elbows 147
19. 11 Families Making Music 163
20. Part Four ‘The night watch’ as homosocial pastoral
21. 12 The Night Watch: How the Sandbank Crumbles 175
22. 13 Evasive Action: Three Ways to Shore Up the Sandbank 181
23. 14 Captain Cocq and the Unruly Musketeer 185
24. 15 Disaggregation as Class Conflict 191
25. 16 Manual Mischief: The Loneliness of the Red Musketeer 195
26. 17 Between Stad and Stadholder: Captain Cocq’s Dilemma 203
27. 18 Posographical Misfires 209
28. 19 An Odd Couple: The Ghost of Anslo’s Wife 217
29. Coda: Playing Soldier 221
30. Notes 227
31. Index 267