The Mind's Eye: Art And Theological Argument In The Middle Ages (Publications Of The Department Of Art And Archaeology, Princeton University): Art And Theological Argument in the Medieval West - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0691124760 ISBN 13: 9780691124766

Casa editrice: Princeton University Press, 2005

Riassunto

The Mind's Eye focuses on the relationships among art, theology, exegesis, and literature--issues long central to the study of medieval art, yet ripe for reconsideration. Essays by leading scholars from many fields examine the illustration of theological commentaries, the use of images to expound or disseminate doctrine, the role of images within theological discourse, the development of doctrine in response to images, and the place of vision and the visual in theological thought.

At issue are the ways in which theologians responded to the images that we call art and in which images entered into dialogue with theological discourse. In what ways could medieval art be construed as argumentative in structure as well as in function? Are any of the modes of representation in medieval art analogous to those found in texts? In what ways did images function as vehicles, not merely vessels, of meaning and signification? To what extent can exegesis and other genres of theological discourse shed light on the form, as well as the content and function, of medieval images? These are only some of the challenging questions posed by this unprecedented and interdisciplinary collection, which provides a historical framework within which to reconsider the relationship between seeing and thinking, perception and the imagination in the Middle Ages.

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L'autore:

Jeffrey F. Hamburger is Professor in the Department of History of Art & Architecture at Harvard University. His books include St. John the Divine: The Deified Evangelist in Medieval Art and Theology and The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany. Anne-Marie Bouché is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History & Archaeology at Columbia University.

Contenuti:

Introduction by Jeffrey F. Hamburger
The Place of Theology in Medieval Art History: Problems, Positions, Possibilities by Jeffrey F. Hamburger
Anthropology and the Use of Religious Images in the Opus Caroli Regis (Libri Carolini) by Karl F. Morrison
Replica: Images of Identity and the Identity of Images in Prescholastic France by Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak
Is There a Theology of the Gothic Cathedral? A Re-reading of Abbot Suger's Writings on the Abbey Church of St.-Denis by Andreas Speer
Christ and the Vision of God: The Biblical Diagrams of the Codex Amiatinus by Celia Chazelle
Raban Maur, Bernard de Clairvaux, Bonaventure: expression de l'espace et topographie spirituelle dans les images médiévales by Christian Heck
Typology and Its Uses in the Moralized Bible by Christopher Hughes
L'Exception corporelle: à propos de l'Assomption de Marie by Jean-Claude Schmitt
Theologians as Trinitarian Iconographers by Bernard McGinn
Seeing and Seeing Beyond: The Mass of St. Gregory in the Fifteenth Century by Caroline Walker Bynum
Porous Subject Matter and Christ's Haunted Infancy by Alfred Acres
Love's Arrows: Christ as Cupid in Late Medieval Art and Devotion by Barbara Newman
Moving Images in the Mind's Eye by Marty Carruthers
Vox Imaginis: Anomaly and Enigma in Romanesque Art by Anne-Marie Bouché
Seeing as Action and Passion in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries by Katherine H. Tachau
"As far as the eye can see. . .": Rituals of Gazing in the Late Middle Ages by Thomas Lentes
The Medieval Work of Art: Wherein the "Work"? Wherein the "Art"? by Jeffrey F. Hamburger
Turning a Blind Eye: Medieval Art and the Dynamics of Contemplation by Herbert L. Kessler

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• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0691124760
• ISBN 13: 9780691124766
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 464
• Redattore: Hamburger Jeffrey F.