Medieval Art at the Intersection of Visuality and Material Culture (Hardcover)

Raphaele Preisinger

ISBN 10: 2503581536 / ISBN 13: 9782503581538

Verlag: Brepols N.V., Turnhout, 2021

Hardcover. 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. 25 b/w illus, 7 col illus & 1 b/w tbl. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9782503581538

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By according equal importance to theoretical accounts of vision and cultural practices of seeing, the articles in this book contribute to the ongoing shift in the fields of art history and medieval history from considerations of vision to those of visuality.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Medieval Art at the Intersection of ...
Verlag: Brepols N.V., Turnhout
Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
Einband: Hardcover
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