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OverviewA provocative study of the iconoclastic impulse in medieval and modern art.From late medieval reenactments of the Deposition from the Cross to Sol Lewitt's Buried Cube, Depositions is about taking down images and about images that anticipate being taken down. Foretelling their own depositions, as well as their re-elevations in contexts far from those in which they were made, the images studied in this book reveal themselves to be untimely-no truer to their first appearance than to their later reappearances.In Depositions, Amy Powell makes the case that late medieval paintings and ritual reenactments of the Deposition from the Cross not only picture the deposition of Christ (the Imago Dei) but also allegorize the deposition of the image as such and, in so doing, prefigure the lowering of ""dead images"" during the Protestant Reformation. Late medieval pre-figurations of Reformation iconoclasm anticipate, in turn, the repeated ""deaths"" of art since the advent of photography: that is the premise of the vignettes devoted to twentieth-century works of art that conclude each chapter of this book.In these vignettes, images that once stood in late medieval churches now find themselves among works of art from the more recent past with which they share certain formal characteristics. These surreal encounters compel us to reckon with affinities between images from different times and places. Turning pseudomorphosis-formal resemblance where there is no similarity of artistic intent-on its head, Powell explores what happens to our understanding of historically and conceptually distant works of art when they look alike. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Amy Knight PowellPublisher: Zone Books Imprint: Zone Books Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.40cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.748kg ISBN: 9781935408208ISBN 10: 1935408208 Pages: 376 Publication Date: 04 October 2012 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsPowell's Depositions has the capacity to change the terms of debate in art history in fundamental and necessary ways. -- Caroline Walker Bynum, Common Knowledge Author InformationAmy Knight Powell is Assistant Professor in Art History at the University of California, Irvine. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |