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A Feast for the Eyes - Art, Performance, and the Late Medieval Banquet (Hardcover)
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A Feast for the Eyes - Art, Performance, and the Late Medieval Banquet (Hardcover)
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To read accounts of late medieval banquets is to enter a fantastic
world where live lions guard nude statues, gilded stags burst into
song, and musicians play from within pies. Such vivid works of art
and performance required collaboration among artists in many
fields, as well as the participation of the audience. A Feast for
the Eyes is the first book - length study of the court banquets of
northwestern Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
Christina Normore draws on an array of artworks, archival
documents, chroniclers' accounts, and cookbooks to re-create these
events and reassess the late medieval visual culture in which
banquets were staged. Feast participants, she shows, developed
sophisticated ways of appreciating artistic skill and attending to
their own processes of perception, thereby forging a court culture
that delighted in the exercise of fine aesthetic judgment.
Challenging modern assumptions about the nature of artistic
production and reception, A Feast for the Eyes yields fresh insight
into the long history of multimedia work and the complex
relationships between spectacle and spectators.
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