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Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > General
This volume sets out to explore the world of domestic devotions and
is premised on the assumption that the home was a central space of
religious practice and experience throughout the early modern
world. The contributions to this book, which deal with themes
dating from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, tell of the
intimate relationship between humans and the sacred within the
walls of the home. The volume demonstrates that the home cannot be
studied in isolation: the sixteen essays, that encompass religious
history, the histories of art and architecture, material culture,
literary history, and social and cultural history, instead point
individually and collectively to the porosity of the home and its
connectedness with other institutions and broader communities.
Contributors: Dotan Arad, Kathleen Ashley, Martin Christ, Hildegard
Diemberger, Marco Faini, Suzanna Ivanic, Debra Kaplan, Marion H.
Katz, Soyeon Kim, Hester Lees-Jeffries, Borja Franco Llopis,
Alessia Meneghin, Francisco J. Moreno Diaz del Campo, Cristina
Osswald, Kathleen M. Ryor, Igor Sosa Mayor, Hanneke van Asperen,
Torsten Wollina, and Jungyoon Yang.
Featuring eight innovative studies by prominent scholars of
medieval art and architecture, this special issue of Medieval
Encounters examines the specific means by which art and
architectural forms, techniques, and ideas were transmitted
throughout the medieval world (ca. 1000-1500). While focusing on
the Mediterranean region, the collection also includes essays that
expand this geographic zone into a cultural and artistic one by
demonstrating contact with near and distant neighbors, thereby
allowing an expanded understanding of the interconnectedness of the
medieval world. The studies are united by a focus on the specific
mechanisms that enabled artistic and architectural interaction, as
well as the individuals who facilitated these transmissions.
Authors also consider the effects and collaboration of portable and
monumental arts in the creation of intercultural artistic
traditions. Contributors are: Justine Andrews, Maria Georgopoulou,
Ludovico Geymonat, Heather E. Grossman, Eva Hoffman, Melanie
Michailidis, Renata Holod, Scott Redford and Alicia Walker.
Can studying an artist's migration enable the reconfiguration of
art history in a new and "global" mode? Michail Grobman's odyssey
in search of a contemporary idiom of Jewish art led him to cross
the borders of political blocs and to observe, absorb, and confront
different patterns of modernism in his work. His provocative art,
his rich archives and collections, his essays and personal diaries
all reveal this complexity and open up a new perspective on
post-World War II twentieth-century modernism - and on the
interconnected functioning of its local models.
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