Iconography beyond the crossroads : image, meaning, and method in Medieval art / edited by Pamela A. Patton and Catherine A. Fernandez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Patton, Pamela A., 1964- editor.

Fernandez, Catherine A., 1978- editor.

Series:

Signa (Princeton University. Department of Art and Archaeology. Index of Medieval Art)

Signa : Papers of the Index of Medieval Art at Princeton University

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian art and symbolism--Medieval, 500-1500.

Christian art and symbolism.

Art, Medieval--Congresses.

Art, Medieval.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2022]

Summary:

This volume assesses how current approaches to iconology and iconography break new ground in understanding the signification and reception of medieval images, both in their own time and in the modern world.Framed by critical essays that apply explicitly historiographical and sociopolitical perspectives to key moments in the evolution of the field, the volume’s case studies focus on how iconographic meaning is shaped by factors such as medieval modes of dialectical thought, the problem of representing time, the movement of the viewer in space, the fragmentation and injury of both image and subject, and the complex strategy of comparing distant cultural paradigms. The contributions are linked by a commitment to understanding how medieval images made meaning; to highlighting the heuristic value of new perspectives and methods in exploring the work of the image in both the Middle Ages and our own time; and to recognizing how subtle entanglements between scholarship and society can provoke mutual and unexpected transformations in both. Collectively, the essays demonstrate the expansiveness, flexibility, and dynamism of iconographic studies as a scholarly field that is still heartily engaged in the challenge of its own remaking.Along with the volume editors, the contributors include Madeline H. Caviness, Beatrice Kitzinger, Aden Kumler, Christopher R. Lakey, Glenn Peers, Jennifer Purtle, and Elizabeth Sears.

Contents:

Intro

COVER Front

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Iconography and Iconology at Princeton

Chapter 2: Whose Iconography?

Chapter 3: Iconology After the Spatial Turn

Chapter 4: Iconographies of Progress

Chapter 5: The Iconography of Healing and Damaged Bodies in the Menil Collection and the Kariye Camii

Chapter 6: Pictured in Relief Comparative Iconology and Civilizational Time Zones at Monreale and Quanzhou, ca. 1186-ca. 1238

Chapter 7: Iconography Deconstructed, from Mâle to the Alt Right

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Patton, Pamela A. Iconography Beyond the Crossroads

ISBN:

9780271093017

0271093013

OCLC:

1296425407