Blurred Boundaries And Deceptive Dichotomies In Pre Modern Texts And Images
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Blurred Boundaries And Deceptive Dichotomies In Pre Modern Texts And Images
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Author : Dafna Nissim
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2023-12-18
Blurred Boundaries And Deceptive Dichotomies In Pre Modern Texts And Images written by Dafna Nissim and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-18 with History categories.
This collection of essays focuses on the way blurred boundaries are represented in pre-modern texts and visual art and how they were received and perceived by their audiences: readers, listeners, and viewers. According to the current understanding that opposing cognitive categories that are so common in modern thinking do not apply to pre-modern mentalities, we argue that individuals in medieval and pre-modern societies did not necessarily consider sacred and secular, male and female, real and fictional, and opposing emotions as absolute dichotomies. The contributors to the present collection examine a wide range of cultural artifacts – literary texts, wall paintings, sculptures, jewelry, manuscript illustrations, and various objects as to what they reflect regarding the dominant perceptual system – the network of beliefs, worldviews, presumptions, values, and norms of viewing/reading/hearing different from modern epistemology strongly predicated on the binary nature of things and people. The essays suggest that analyzing pre-modern cultural works of art or literature in light of reception theory can lead to a better understanding of how those cultural products influenced individuals and impacted their thoughts and actions.
Sites Of The Uncanny
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Author : Eric Kligerman
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2007
Sites Of The Uncanny written by Eric Kligerman and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Art categories.
The series publishes monographs and edited volumes that showcase significant scholarly work at the various intersections that currently motivate interdisciplinary inquiry in German cultural studies. Topics span all periods of German and German-speaking lands and cultures from the local to the global, with a special focus on demonstrating how various disciplines - history, musicology, art history, anthropology, religious studies, media studies, political theory, literary and cultural studies, among others - and new theoretical and methodological paradigms work across disciplinary boundaries to create knowledge and add to critical understanding in German studies broadly. All works are in English. Three to four new titles will be published annually.
The Long Life Of Magical Objects
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Author : Allegra Iafrate
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2019-07-01
The Long Life Of Magical Objects written by Allegra Iafrate and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-01 with Art categories.
This book explores a series of powerful artifacts associated with King Solomon via legendary or extracanonical textual sources. Tracing their cultural resonance throughout history, art historian Allegra Iafrate delivers exciting insights into these objects and interrogates the ways in which magic manifests itself at a material level. Each chapter focuses on a different Solomonic object: a ring used to control demons; a mysterious set of bottles that constrain evil forces; an endless knot or seal with similar properties; the shamir, known for its supernatural ability to cut through stone; and a flying carpet that can bring the sitter anywhere he desires. Taken together, these chapters constitute a study on the reception of the figure of Solomon, but they are also cultural biographies of these magical objects and their inherent aesthetic, morphological, and technical qualities. Thought-provoking and engaging, Iafrate’s study shows how ancient magic artifacts live on in our imagination, in items such as Sauron’s ring of power, Aladdin’s lamp, and the magic carpet. It will appeal to historians of art, religion, folklore, and literature.
Ornament As Argument
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Author : Anna Bücheler
language : en
Publisher: de Gruyter
Release Date : 2019
Ornament As Argument written by Anna Bücheler and has been published by de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Art categories.
This study explores notions of ornamentation and materiality in 10th and 11th century manuscript illumination. So-called textile pages evoking the weave patterns of Byzantine and Islamic silk, show that ornament has metaphoric meaning and serves distinct functions in religious art. A contextualized reading investigates the ways in which textile pages relate to medieval theological issues, the liturgy, and contribute to medieval book culture.
The Things Of Greater Importance
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Author : Conrad Rudolph
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2016-11-11
The Things Of Greater Importance written by Conrad Rudolph and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-11 with Art categories.
The "Things of Greater Importance" provides a close look into the social and cultural context of medieval art, primarily as expressed in Bernard of Clairvaux's Apologia, the central document in the greatest artistic controversy to occur in the West prior to the Reformation and the most important source we have for understanding medieval attitudes toward art. Bernard wrote the Apologia during the medieval efflorescence of monumental sculpture and stained glass, of advanced architecture, of pilgrimage art, of high Romanesque, and of the origins of Gothic art. Rudolph places the Apologia, traditionally seen as a condemnation either of all religious art or of all monastic art, in a broader context, using it to explore the role of art in medieval society. He shows that Bernard was interested in the impact of art on contemporary monasticism in a more complex way than previously believed. The book offers the most thorough study available of the theoretical basis of medieval art as it functioned in society; and its implications for the art of both the Romanesque and Gothic periods, which were spanned by Bernard's life, are significant.
Animism Materiality And Museums
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Author : Glenn Peers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-01-31
Animism Materiality And Museums written by Glenn Peers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-31 with categories.
Written in response to an exhibition the author curated at The Menil Collection in 2013, these essays challenge us to find novel ways to explore Byzantine art. They marshal diverse disciplines - modern art, environmental theory, anthropology - to argue that Byzantine culture formed a special kind of Christian animism. While foreign to our world, that animism holds important lessons for our own relations to the world. Mutual probings of subject and art, of past and present, arise in these essays - some new and some previously published - opening up new explanations that will interest art historians, museum professionals, and anyone interested in how art makes and remakes the world.
Re Assessing The Global Turn In Medieval Art History
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Author : Christina Normore
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Re Assessing The Global Turn In Medieval Art History written by Christina Normore and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with ART categories.
A cutting-edge work on global medieval art, this volume offers a starting point for future conversations among scholars working on Byzantine, Islamic, Western medieval, and East Asian art history.
Arabic Script On Christian Kings
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Author : Isabelle Dolezalek
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2017-06-12
Arabic Script On Christian Kings written by Isabelle Dolezalek and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-12 with History categories.
Isabelle Dolezalek wurde für Ihre Arbeit mit dem 2018 ICMA Annual Book Prize des International Center of Medieval Art ausgezeichnet. Auf zahlreichen mittelalterlichen Objekten finden sich arabische Inschriften. Nur wenige davon wurden jedoch für lateinisch-christliche Auftraggeber produziert. Die normannischen und staufischen Königsgewänder aus Sizilien bilden eine bemerkenswerte Ausnahme. Welche Assoziationen sollte der Gebrauch arabischer Textilinschriften bei den zeitgenössischen Betrachtern im 12. und 13. Jahrhundert hervorrufen? Wie wurden die Inschriften in späteren Zeiten rezipiert? Die transkulturell und interdisziplinär ausgerichtete Studie beleuchtet praktische und politische Entscheidungen, die der Produktion der sizilischen Textilinschriften zugrunde liegen, und lenkt so das Augenmerk auf ein Ornament, das konventionelle kulturelle Grenzen nicht nur überschreitet, sondern grundlegend in Frage stellt.
Francis Al S
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Author : Francis Alÿs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Francis Al S written by Francis Alÿs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Art categories.
Edited by Mark Godfrey, Klaus Biesenbach. Text by Eduardo Abaroa, Klaus Biesenbach, Francesco Careri, Carla Faesler, Mark Godfrey, Boris Groys, Miwon Kwon, Tom McDonough, Cuauhtemoc Medina, Laymert Garcia dos Santos, Eyal Weizman.
Cartooning For A Modern Egypt
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Author : Keren Zdafee
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-09-16
Cartooning For A Modern Egypt written by Keren Zdafee and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-16 with History categories.
In Cartooning for a Modern Egypt, Keren Zdafee foregrounds the role that Egypt’s foreign-local entrepreneurs and caricaturists played in formulating and constructing the modern Egyptian caricature of the interwar years. She illustrates how these caricaturists envisioned and evaluated the past, present, and future of Egyptian society, in the context of Cairo's colonial cosmopolitanism.