Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art - Brossura

Camille, Michael

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0948462280 ISBN 13: 9780948462283

Casa editrice: Reaktion Books, 1992

Riassunto

What do they all mean – the lascivious ape, autophagic dragons, pot-bellied heads, harp-playing asses, arse-kissing priests and somersaulting jongleurs to be found protruding from the edges of medieval buildings and in the margins of illuminated manuscripts? Michael Camille explores that riotous realm of marginal art, so often explained away as mere decoration or zany doodles, where resistance to social constraints flourished.

Medieval image-makers focused attention on the underside of society, the excluded and the ejected. Peasants, servants, prostitutes and beggars all found their place, along with knights and clerics, engaged in impudent antics in the margins of prayer-books or, as gargoyles, on the outsides of churches. Camille brings us to an understanding of how marginality functioned in medieval culture and shows us just how scandalous, subversive, and amazing the art of the time could be.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Michael Camille was Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago.

Product Description:

Book by Camille Michael

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Reaktion Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0948462280
• ISBN 13: 9780948462283
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 176