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Abstraction in Medieval Art...
Abstraction haunts medieval art, both withdrawing figuration and suggesting elusive presence. How does it make or destroy meaning in the process? Does it suggest the failure of figuration, the faltering of iconography? Does medieval abstraction function because it is imperfect, incomplete, and uncorrected-and therefore cognitively, visually demanding? Is it, conversely, precisely about perfection? To what extent is the abstract predicated on theorization of the unrepresentable and imperceptible? Does medieval abstraction pit aesthetics against metaphysics, or does it enrich it, or frame it, or both? Essays in this collection explore these and other questions that coalesce around three broad themes: medieval abstraction as the untethering of image from what it purports to represent, abstraction as a vehicle for signification, and abstraction as a form of figuration. Contributors approach the concept of medieval abstraction from a multitude of perspectives-formal, semiotic, iconographic, material, phenomenological, epistemological
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monografia Rebiun39043903 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun39043903 m o d cr cnu---unuuu 210206s2021 ne o 000 0 eng d 1338168773 1393695289 1394053235 1434603247 1446111373 1504043928 1536317583 9048542677 9789048542673 electronic bk.) 9789462989894 9462989893 1040781721 electronic bk.) 9781040781722 electronic bk.) AU@ 000068846394 22573/ctv1fxdr58 JSTOR EBLCP eng pn EBLCP N$T OCLCO OCLCF JSTOR UKAHL DEGRU P@U OCLCO YDX DGITA OCLCO OCLCQ HRM NLAUP OCLCO DXU OCLCL EMRUN OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCL ARC 005030 bisacsh ART 008000 bisacsh ART 015070 bisacsh HIS 037010 bisacsh ACK bicssc ACN bicssc AGA thema DSBB thema NHTB thema 709.02 23 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ddc/E3yTbfH6WkvBhDfqxDqDr6ByHr Abstraction in Medieval Art Beyond the Ornament edited by Elina Gertsman Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2021 Amsterdam Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 1 online resource (386 pages) 1 online resource (386 pages) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier digital rdatr Includes bibliographical references and index Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- Preface: Withdrawal and Presence -- Part I Abstraction / Aporia / Unknowability -- 1. Colour as Subject -- 2. Abstraction's Gothic Grounds -- 3. Abstraction in the Kennicott Bible -- 4. Back-to-Front: Abstraction and Figuration in Bosch's Visions of the Hereafter -- Part II Abstraction / Figuration / Signification -- 5. The Painted Logos: Abstraction as Exegesis in the Ashburnham Pentateuch -- 6. The Sign within the Form, the Form without the Sign: Monograms and Pseudo- Monograms as Abstractions in Mozarabic Antiphonaries -- 7. Ornament and Abstraction: A New Approach to Understanding Ornamented Writing in the Making of Illuminated Manuscripts around 1000 -- 8. The Double-Sided Image: Abstraction and Figuration in Early Medieval Painting -- Part III Abstraction / Epistemology / Perception -- 9. Birds of Defiance: Jewelled Resistance to Modern Abstractions -- 10. Early Romanesque Abstraction and the 'Unconditionally Two-dimensional Surface' -- 11. Functional Abstraction in Medieval Anatomical Diagrams -- 12. Imaging Perfection(s) in Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts -- 13. Response: Astral Abstraction -- 14. Coda: Carolingian Art As Conceptual Art -- Index Abstraction haunts medieval art, both withdrawing figuration and suggesting elusive presence. How does it make or destroy meaning in the process? Does it suggest the failure of figuration, the faltering of iconography? Does medieval abstraction function because it is imperfect, incomplete, and uncorrected-and therefore cognitively, visually demanding? Is it, conversely, precisely about perfection? To what extent is the abstract predicated on theorization of the unrepresentable and imperceptible? Does medieval abstraction pit aesthetics against metaphysics, or does it enrich it, or frame it, or both? Essays in this collection explore these and other questions that coalesce around three broad themes: medieval abstraction as the untethering of image from what it purports to represent, abstraction as a vehicle for signification, and abstraction as a form of figuration. Contributors approach the concept of medieval abstraction from a multitude of perspectives-formal, semiotic, iconographic, material, phenomenological, epistemological Art, Medieval Abstraction Art médiéval Abstraction abstraction. History of art: Byzantine and Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400. History of art and design styles: c 1400 to c 1600. ARCHITECTURE / History / Medieval. Abstraction. Art, Medieval. History of art. Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval. Social and cultural history. Abstract, medieval, art, ornament, meaning e-books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Livres numériques. Gertsman, Elina editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJgt9qghchBjbQYQ3qyfMP Print version Gertsman, Elina. Abstraction in Medieval Art. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2021 9789462989894