Abstraction in Medieval Art - Beyond the Ornament (Hardcover)

Abstraction haunts medieval art, both withdrawing figuration and suggesting elusive presence. How does it make or destroy meaning in the process? Does it suggest the failure of figuration, the faltering of iconography? Does medieval abstraction function because it is imperfect, incomplete, and uncorrected-and therefore cognitively, visually demanding? Is it, conversely, precisely about perfection? To what extent is the abstract predicated on theorization of the unrepresentable and imperceptible? Does medieval abstraction pit aesthetics against metaphysics, or does it enrich it, or frame it, or both? Essays in this collection explore these and other questions that coalesce around three broad themes: medieval abstraction as the untethering of the image from what it purports to represent; abstraction as a vehicle for signification; and abstraction as a form of figuration. Contributors approach the concept of medieval abstraction from a multitude of perspectives-formal, semiotic, iconographic, material, phenomenological, epistemological.

General

Imprint:	Amsterdam University Press
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Release date:	February 2021
Editors:	Elina Gertsman
Contributors:	Linda Safran • Benjamin Tilghman • Danny Smith • Vincent Debiais • Julie Harris • Danielle Joyner • Aden Kumler • Robert Mills • Megan McNamee
Dimensions:	240 x 170mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	384
ISBN-13:	978-9462989894
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 500 CE to 1400 > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1400 to 1600 > General Promotions
LSN:	9462989893
Barcode:	9789462989894

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