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Author : Peter Haidu
Release : 2004
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 44X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Subject Medieval/Modern by : Peter Haidu
Download or read book The Subject Medieval/Modern written by Peter Haidu. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents a thorough historicist account of the development of subjectivity in the medieval period, as traced in medieval literature and historical documentation.
Author : Alexander Nagel
Release : 2012-11-06
Genre : Antiques & Collectibles
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Book Rating : 974/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Medieval Modern by : Alexander Nagel
Download or read book Medieval Modern written by Alexander Nagel. This book was released on 2012-11-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich collisions and fresh perspectives illuminate the profound continuities of thought and practice that have marked Western art through the ages This groundbreaking study offers a radical new reading of art since the Middle Ages. Moving across the familiar period lines set out in conventional histories, Alexander Nagel explores the deep connections between modern and premodern art to reveal the underlying patterns and ideas traversing centuries of artistic practice. In a series of episodic chapters, he reconsiders from an innovative double perspective a number of key issues in the history of art, from iconoclasm and idolatry to installation and the museum as institution. He shows how the central tenets of modernism – serial production, site-specificity, collage, the readymade, and the questioning of the nature of art and authorship – were all features of earlier times before modernity, revived by recent generations. Nagel examines, among other things, the importance of medieval cathedrals to the 1920s Bauhaus movement, the parallels between Renaissance altarpieces and modern preoccupations with surface and structure; the relevance of Byzantine models to Minimalist artists; the affinities between ancient holy sites and early earthworks; and the similarities between the sacred relic and the modern readymade. Alongside the work of leading 20th-century medievalist writes such as Walter Benjamin, Marshall McLuhan, Leo Steinberg, and Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, Robert Smithson, and Damien Hirst. The effect of these encounters goes in two directions at once: each age offers new insights into the other, deepening our understanding of both past and present, and providing a new set of reference points that reframe the history of art itself.
Author : G. Partington
Release : 2014-09-09
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 660/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary by : G. Partington
Download or read book Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary written by G. Partington. This book was released on 2014-09-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rich and varied collection of essays by scholars and interviews with artists approaches the fraught topic of book destruction from a new angle, setting out an alternative history of the cutting, burning, pulping, defacing and tearing of books from the medieval period to our own age.
Author : Robin Macdonald
Release : 2018-05-20
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 18X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sensing the Sacred in Medieval and Early Modern Culture by : Robin Macdonald
Download or read book Sensing the Sacred in Medieval and Early Modern Culture written by Robin Macdonald. This book was released on 2018-05-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume traces transformations in attitudes toward, ideas about, and experiences of religion and the senses in the medieval and early modern period. Broad in temporal and geographical scope, it challenges traditional notions of periodisation, highlighting continuities as well as change. Rather than focusing on individual senses, the volume’s organisation emphasises the multisensoriality and embodied nature of religious practices and experiences, refusing easy distinctions between asceticism and excess. The senses were not passive, but rather active and reactive, res-ponding to and initiating change. As the contributions in this collection demonstrate, in the pre-modern era, sensing the sacred was a complex, vexed, and constantly evolving process, shaped by individuals, environment, and religious change. The volume will be essential reading not only for scholars of religion and the senses, but for anyone interested in histories of medieval and early modern bodies, material culture, affects, and affect theory.
Author : Professor James Muldoon
Release : 2013-03-28
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 213/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Bridging the Medieval-Modern Divide by : Professor James Muldoon
Download or read book Bridging the Medieval-Modern Divide written by Professor James Muldoon. This book was released on 2013-03-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debate about when the middle ages ended and the modern era began, has long been a staple of the historical literature. In order to further this debate, and illuminate the implications of a longue durée approach to the history of the Reformation, this collection offers a selection of essays that address the medieval-modern divide. Covering a broad range of topics - encompassing legal, social, cultural, theological and political history - the volume asks fundamental questions about how we regard history, and what historians can learn from colleagues working in other fields that may not at first glance appear to offer any obvious links. By focussing on the concept of the medieval-modern divide - in particular the relation between the Middle Ages and the Reformation - each essay examines how a medievalist deals with a specific topic or issue that is also attracting the attention of Reformation scholars. In so doing it underlines the fact that both medievalists and modernists are often involved in bridging the medieval-modern divide, but are inclined to construct parallel bridges that end between the two starting points but do not necessarily meet. As a result, the volume challenges assumptions about the strict periodization of history, and suggest that a more flexible approach will yield interesting historical insights.
