To write about works that cannot be sensually perceived involves
considerable strain. Absent the object, art historians must stretch
their methods to, or even past, the breaking point. This concise
volume addresses the problems inherent in studying medieval works
of art, artifacts, and monuments that have disappeared, have been
destroyed, or perhaps never existed in the first place. The
contributors to this volume are confronted with the full expanse of
what they cannot see, handle, or know. Connecting object histories,
the anthropology of images, and historiography, they seek to
understand how people have made sense of the past by examining
objects, images, and architectural and urban spaces. Intersecting
these approaches is a deep current of reflection upon the
theorization of historical analysis and the ways in which the past
is inscribed into layers of evidence that are only ever revealed in
the historian’s present tense. Highly original and theoretically
sophisticated, this volume will stimulate debate among art
historians about the critical practices used to confront the
formative presence of destruction, loss, obscurity, and existential
uncertainty within the history of art and the study of historical
material and visual cultures. In addition to the editors, the
contributors to this volume are Michele Bacci, Claudia Brittenham,
Sonja Drimmer, JaÅ› Elsner, Peter Geimer, Danielle B. Joyner,
Kristopher W. Kersey, Lena Liepe, Meekyung MacMurdie, and Michelle
McCoy.
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