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Author:   Elina Gertsman ,  Linda Safran (University of Toronto) ,  Benjamin Tilghman (Washington College) ,  Danny Smith (Stanford University)
Publisher:   Amsterdam University Press
Imprint:   Amsterdam University Press
ISBN:  

9789462989894

ISBN 10:   9462989893
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   28 February 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ILLUSTRATIONS PREFACE: Elina Gertsman, 'Withdrawal and Presence' PART I: ABSTRACTION / APORIA / UNKNOWABILITY Vincent Debiais, 'Colour as Subject' Aden Kumler, 'Abstraction's Gothic Grounds' Adam S. Cohen and Linda Safran, 'Abstraction in the Kennicott Bible' Robert Mills, 'Back-to-Front: Abstraction and Figuration in Bosch's Visions of the Hereafter' PART II: ABSTRACTION / FIGURATION / SIGNIFICATION Danny Smith, 'The Painted Logos: Abstraction as Exegesis in the Ashburnham Pentateuch' Benjamin C. Tilghman, 'The Sign within the Form, the Form without the Sign: Monograms and Pseudo-Monograms as Abstractions in Mozarabic Antiphonaries' Gia Toussaint, 'Ornament and Abstraction: A New Approach to Understanding Ornamented Writing in the Making of Illuminated Manuscripts around 1000' Nancy Thebaut, 'The Double-Sided Image: Abstraction and Figuration in Early Medieval Painting' PART III: ABSTRACTION / EPISTEMOLOGY / PERCEPTION Danielle B. Joyner, 'Birds of Defiance: Jewelled Resistance to Modern Abstractions' Megan C. McNamee, 'Early Romanesque Abstraction and the ""Unconditionally Two-Dimensional Surface""' Taylor McCall, 'Functional Abstraction in Medieval Anatomical Diagrams' Julie Harris, 'Imaging Perfection(s) in Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts' RESPONSE: Herbert Kessler, 'Astral Abstraction' CODA: Charlotte Denoël, 'Carolingian Art as Conceptual Art?' Index"

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An excellent collection of thoughtfully selected, intelligently argued, and well-researched essays on an important topic. - Richard K. Emmerson, Florida State University

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Elina Gertsman is Professor of Medieval Art and Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor in Catholic Studies II at Case Western Reserve University. She is the author of The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages: Image, Text, Performance (2010), Worlds Within: Opening the Medieval Shrine Madonna (2015), and The Absent Image: Lacunae in Medieval Books (2021); co-author of The Middle Ages in 50 Objects (2018); and editor of several volumes on performance, emotion, liminality, and animated objects. Her work has been supported by the Guggenheim, Kress, Mellon, and Franco-American Cultural Exchange foundations as well as by the American Council for Learned Societies.

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