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Gothic Wonder - Art, Artifice, and the Decorated Style, 1290-1350 (Hardcover)
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Gothic Wonder - Art, Artifice, and the Decorated Style, 1290-1350 (Hardcover)
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In this wide-ranging, eloquent book, Paul Binski sheds new light on
one of the greatest periods of English art and architecture,
offering ground-breaking arguments about the role of invention and
the powers of Gothic art. His richly documented study locates what
became known as the Decorated Style within patterns of
commissioning, designing, and imagining whose origins lay in
pre-Gothic art. By examining notions of what was extraordinary,
re-evaluating medieval ideas of authorship, and restoring economic
considerations to the debate, Binski sets English visual art of the
early 14th century in a broad European context and also within the
aesthetic discourses of the medieval period. The author, stressing
the continuum between art and architecture, challenges
understandings about agency, modernity, hierarchy, and marginality.
His book makes a powerful case for the restoration of the category
of the aesthetic to the understanding of medieval art. Generously
illustrated with hundreds of images, Gothic Wonder traces the
impact of English art in Continental Europe, ending with the Black
Death and the literary uses of the architectural in works by
Geoffrey Chaucer and other writers. Published for the Paul Mellon
Centre for Studies in British Art
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