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Book SynopsisA collection of essays that evaluate the continued relevance of iconographic studies within current art-historical scholarship by exploring the fluidity of iconography itself.
Trade Review“This collection offers a stimulating overview of current methods of iconographic research. The authors offer focused and rewarding case studies that address broadly varied material and periods, and they productively situate their work in dialogue with traditional and innovative approaches.”
—Erik Inglis,author of Jean Fouquet and the Invention of France: Art and Nation after the Hundred Years War
“This is an essential element in the scholarship that recognizes the significance of images for historical and cultural studies beyond the traditional borders of art history to the larger arena of visual culture inclusive of gender, race, ethnicity, and popular/material culture.”
—D. Apostolos-Cappadona Choice
“This excellent collection of essays—well organized, carefully edited, and generously illustrated—is a welcome and salutary reminder that iconographic studies, allied with other methodologies and buttressed by meticulous research, can achieve genuinely fresh and even brilliant insights into a wide variety of medieval images and their multiple meanings.”
—Richard K. Emmerson,author of Apocalypse Illuminated: The Visual Exegesis of Revelation in Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts
Table of Contents1. Introduction: Plus ça change...? The Lives and Afterlives of Medieval Iconography
Pamela A. Patton and Henry D. Schilb, Index of Medieval Art, Princeton University
2. Afterlife and Improvisation at Santa Maria in Trastevere
Dale Kinney, Bryn Mawr College
3. The Archaeology of Carolingian Memory at Saint-Sernin of Toulouse
Catherine Fernandez, Index of Medieval Art, Princeton University
4. Representation, Signature and Trace in Islamic Art
D. Fairchild Ruggles, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
5. A Matter of Perception: An Hesychastic Understanding of the Work of Art
Charles Barber, Princeton University
6. Spectacles and Prosthetic Visions in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Art
Kirk Ambrose, University of Colorado Boulder
7. Iconography and the Loss of Representation
Elina Gertsman, The Case Western Reserve University
8. The Work of Gothic Sculpture in the Age of Photographic Reproduction
Jacqueline E. Jung, Yale University
