How Do Images Work?: Strategies of Visual Communication in Medieval Art

ISBN 10: 2503595871 / ISBN 13: 9782503595870

Edité par Brepols N.V., 2022

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Synopsis :

How did historical images work and interact with their beholders and users ? Drawing on the results of an international conference held in Vienna in 2018, this volume offers new perspectives on a central question for contemporary art history. The fourteen authors approach working imagery from the medieval and early modern periods in terms of its production, usage, and reception. They address wide-ranging media―architecture, sculpture, painting, metalwork, stained glass―in similarly wide-ranging contexts : from monumental installations in the most public zones of urban churches to exquisite devotional objects and illuminated books reserved for more exclusive settings. While including research from West European and American institutions, the project also engages with the distinctive scholarly traditions of Eastern Europe and Israel. In all these ways, it reflects the interests of the dedicatee Michael Viktor Schwarz, whose introductory interview lays out the parameters of the subject.

À propos de l'auteur: Christine Beier is senior scientist at the Department of Art History at Vienna University. Her research focuses on medieval and early modern book illumination. Tim Juckes works at the Department of Art History at Vienna University. He is the main researcher in a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) on visual media and spatial contexts in late-medieval Central Europe. Assaf Pinkus is professor of art history at Tel Aviv University. He works on spectatorship, response, and somaticism with a focus on the visual media of late medieval Europe.

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Titre : How Do Images Work?: Strategies of Visual ...
Éditeur : Brepols N.V.
Date d'édition : 2022
Reliure : hardcover
Etat : New