{"product_id":"destroyeddisappearedlostnever-were-9780271093284","title":"DestroyedDisappearedLostNever Were","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA collection of essays by art historians on works of art, artifacts, and monuments that are no longer extant, have disappeared, or perhaps never existed outside of language. Addresses destruction, loss, obscurity, and existential uncertainty within the history of art and the study of historical material and visual cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eDestroyed—Disappeared—Lost—Never Were\u003c\/i\u003e is the sort of scholarship that begins to fill the literal lacunae cautiously avoided by premodern art historians for so long, but perhaps no longer.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Elisa A. Foster \u003ci\u003ecaa.reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eDestroyed—Disappeared—Lost—Never Were\u003c\/i\u003e makes a fresh contribution to the field, one that dexterously balances historical perspectives and theoretical awareness. Its short essays cover a variety of topics with a global reach but with a common concern: how the ‘existential uncertainty’ resulting from works that are no longer extant or may never have existed outside verbal evocations has shaped and continues to shape the practice of art history.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Brigitte Buettner,author of\u003ci\u003e Boccaccio’s “Des cleres et nobles femmes”: Systems of Signification in an Illuminated Manuscript\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Both as a whole and as individual essays, the contents of \u003ci\u003eDestroyed - Disappeared - Lost - Never Were\u003c\/i\u003e contribute significantly to various urgent scholarly conversations in art history today. Highly original and written by experts in their respective fields, each of the book’s chapters focus on serious lacunae in the medieval discipline, unpacking them in creative ways in relation to both primary and secondary materials. Between them, these exciting essays offer novel readings of previously untreated objects, important revisions to existing historical and theoretical narratives, and original critiques of received historiographies.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Jack Hartnell,author of \u003ci\u003eMedieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] cathartic book.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—William Chester Jordan \u003ci\u003eMediaevistik\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Destroyed—Disappeared—Lost—Never Were\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeate Fricke and Aden Kumler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Jerusalem’s \u003ci\u003eLocal Sancta\u003c\/i\u003e and Their Perishable Frames\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichele Bacci\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. John Lloyd Stephens and the Lost Lintel of Kabah\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eClaudia Brittenham\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. The Sanguine Art: Four Fragments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSonja Drimmer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. The Dreamwork of Positivism: Archaeological Art History and the Imaginative Restoration of the Lost\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJaś Elsner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Finding Delight in Gardens Lost\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDanielle B. Joyner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Impermanence, Futurity, and Loss in Twelfth-Century Japan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKristopher W. Kersey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Lonely Bones: Relics \u003ci\u003esans\u003c\/i\u003e Reliquaries\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLena Liepe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. The Manuscript Machine: Assemblages and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDivisions in Jazarī’s Compendium\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMeekyung MacMurdie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. Cave and Camera: Shades of Loss in the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLibrary Cave of Dunhuang\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichelle McCoy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. Mourning the Loss of Works \/ Praising Their Absence: A Response\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter Geimer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400818630999,"sku":"9780271093284","price":15.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780271093284.jpg?v=1730471650","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/destroyeddisappearedlostnever-were-9780271093284","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}