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Author : Herbert L. Kessler
Release : 2004
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 351/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Seeing Medieval Art by : Herbert L. Kessler
Download or read book Seeing Medieval Art written by Herbert L. Kessler. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Experts and non-experts alike will find much to delight and challenge them in Kessler's rich embroidery of text and image." - Mary Carruthers, New York University
Author : Herbert L. Kessler
Release : 2019-09-10
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 748/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Experiencing Medieval Art by : Herbert L. Kessler
Download or read book Experiencing Medieval Art written by Herbert L. Kessler. This book was released on 2019-09-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the nine thematic chapters of Experiencing Medieval Art, renowned art historian Herbert L. Kessler considers functional objects as well as paintings and sculptures; the circumstances, processes, and materials of production; the conflictual relationship between art objects and notions of an ineffable deity; the context surrounding medieval art; and questions of apprehension, aesthetics, and modern presentation. He also introduces the exciting discoveries and revelations that have revolutionized contemporary understanding of medieval art and identifies the vexing challenges that still remain. With 16 color plates and 81 images in all—including the stained glass of Chartres Cathedral, the mosaics of San Marco, and the Utrecht Psalter, as well as newly discovered works such as the frescoes in Rome’s aula gotica and a twelfth-century aquamanile in Hildesheim—Experiencing Medieval Art makes the complex history of medieval art accessible for students of art history and scholars of medieval history, theology, and literature.
Author : Herbert L. Kessler
Release : 2000-09-15
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 609/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Spiritual Seeing by : Herbert L. Kessler
Download or read book Spiritual Seeing written by Herbert L. Kessler. This book was released on 2000-09-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How and when, Herbert L. Kessler asks, was the Jewish prohibition against graven images transformed into a Christian imperative to picture God's invisibility once God had taken human form in the body of Jesus Christ?
Author : Raphaèle Preisinger
Release : 2021-06-28
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Book Rating : 538/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Medieval Art at the Intersection of Visuality and Material Culture by : Raphaèle Preisinger
Download or read book Medieval Art at the Intersection of Visuality and Material Culture written by Raphaèle Preisinger. This book was released on 2021-06-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last two decades the historiography of medieval art has been defined by two seemingly contradictory trends: a focus on questions of visuality, and more recently an emphasis on materiality. The latter, which has encouraged multi-sensorial approaches to medieval art, has come to be perceived as a counterpoint to the study of visuality as defined in ocularcentric terms. Bringing together specialists from different areas of art history, this book grapples with this dialectic and poses new avenues for reconciling these two opposing tendencies. The essays in this volume demonstrate the necessity of returning to questions of visuality, taking into account the insights gained from the 'material turn'. They highlight conceptions of vision that attribute a haptic quality to the act of seeing and draw on bodily perception to shed new light on visuality in the Middle Ages.
Author : Alexa Sand
Release : 2014-03-31
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 229/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Vision, Devotion, and Self-Representation in Late Medieval Art by : Alexa Sand
Download or read book Vision, Devotion, and Self-Representation in Late Medieval Art written by Alexa Sand. This book was released on 2014-03-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on one of the most attractive features of late medieval manuscript illumination: the portrait of the book owner at prayer within the pages of her prayer-book.
