Author: Elina Gertsman
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271089032
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Winner of the 2022 Charles Rufus Morey Award from the College Art Association Guided by Aristotelian theories, medieval philosophers believed that nature abhors a vacuum. Medieval art, according to modern scholars, abhors the same. The notion of horror vacui—the fear of empty space—is thus often construed as a definitive feature of Gothic material culture. In The Absent Image, Elina Gertsman argues that Gothic art, in its attempts to grapple with the unrepresentability of the invisible, actively engages emptiness, voids, gaps, holes, and erasures. Exploring complex conversations among medieval philosophy, physics, mathematics, piety, and image-making, Gertsman considers the concept of nothingness in concert with the imaginary, revealing profoundly inventive approaches to emptiness in late medieval visual culture, from ingenious images of the world’s creation ex nihilo to figurations of absence as a replacement for the invisible forces of conception and death. Innovative and challenging, this book will find its primary audience with students and scholars of art, religion, physics, philosophy, and mathematics. It will be particularly welcomed by those interested in phenomenological and cross-disciplinary approaches to the visual culture of the later Middle Ages.
The Absent Image
Author: Elina Gertsman
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271089032
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Winner of the 2022 Charles Rufus Morey Award from the College Art Association Guided by Aristotelian theories, medieval philosophers believed that nature abhors a vacuum. Medieval art, according to modern scholars, abhors the same. The notion of horror vacui—the fear of empty space—is thus often construed as a definitive feature of Gothic material culture. In The Absent Image, Elina Gertsman argues that Gothic art, in its attempts to grapple with the unrepresentability of the invisible, actively engages emptiness, voids, gaps, holes, and erasures. Exploring complex conversations among medieval philosophy, physics, mathematics, piety, and image-making, Gertsman considers the concept of nothingness in concert with the imaginary, revealing profoundly inventive approaches to emptiness in late medieval visual culture, from ingenious images of the world’s creation ex nihilo to figurations of absence as a replacement for the invisible forces of conception and death. Innovative and challenging, this book will find its primary audience with students and scholars of art, religion, physics, philosophy, and mathematics. It will be particularly welcomed by those interested in phenomenological and cross-disciplinary approaches to the visual culture of the later Middle Ages.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271089032
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Winner of the 2022 Charles Rufus Morey Award from the College Art Association Guided by Aristotelian theories, medieval philosophers believed that nature abhors a vacuum. Medieval art, according to modern scholars, abhors the same. The notion of horror vacui—the fear of empty space—is thus often construed as a definitive feature of Gothic material culture. In The Absent Image, Elina Gertsman argues that Gothic art, in its attempts to grapple with the unrepresentability of the invisible, actively engages emptiness, voids, gaps, holes, and erasures. Exploring complex conversations among medieval philosophy, physics, mathematics, piety, and image-making, Gertsman considers the concept of nothingness in concert with the imaginary, revealing profoundly inventive approaches to emptiness in late medieval visual culture, from ingenious images of the world’s creation ex nihilo to figurations of absence as a replacement for the invisible forces of conception and death. Innovative and challenging, this book will find its primary audience with students and scholars of art, religion, physics, philosophy, and mathematics. It will be particularly welcomed by those interested in phenomenological and cross-disciplinary approaches to the visual culture of the later Middle Ages.
Binding the Absent Body in Medieval and Modern Art
Author: Emily Kelley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351573756
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This collection of essays considers artistic works that deal with the body without a visual representation. It explores a range of ways to represent this absence of the figure: from abject elements such as bodily fluids and waste to surrogate forms including reliquaries, manuscripts, and cloth. The collection focuses on two eras, medieval and modern, when images referencing the absent body have been far more prolific in the history of art. In medieval times, works of art became direct references to the absent corporal essence of a divine being, like Christ, or were used as devotional aids. By contrast, in the modern era artists often reject depictions of the physical body in order to distance themselves from the history of the idealized human form. Through these essays, it becomes apparent, even when the body is not visible in a work of art, it is often still present tangentially. Though the essays in this volume bridge two historical periods, they have coherent thematic links dealing with abjection, embodiment, and phenomenology. Whether figurative or abstract, sacred or secular, medieval or modern, the body maintains a presence in these works even when it is not at first apparent.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351573756
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This collection of essays considers artistic works that deal with the body without a visual representation. It explores a range of ways to represent this absence of the figure: from abject elements such as bodily fluids and waste to surrogate forms including reliquaries, manuscripts, and cloth. The collection focuses on two eras, medieval and modern, when images referencing the absent body have been far more prolific in the history of art. In medieval times, works of art became direct references to the absent corporal essence of a divine being, like Christ, or were used as devotional aids. By contrast, in the modern era artists often reject depictions of the physical body in order to distance themselves from the history of the idealized human form. Through these essays, it becomes apparent, even when the body is not visible in a work of art, it is often still present tangentially. Though the essays in this volume bridge two historical periods, they have coherent thematic links dealing with abjection, embodiment, and phenomenology. Whether figurative or abstract, sacred or secular, medieval or modern, the body maintains a presence in these works even when it is not at first apparent.
On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629-645 A.D.
Author: Thomas Watters
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Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Category : Oriental literature
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Category : Oriental literature
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Problems of Life and Mind
Author: George Henry Lewes
Publisher: Boston : Houghton, Osgood
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Category : Knowledge, Theory of
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Publisher: Boston : Houghton, Osgood
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Category : Knowledge, Theory of
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Mind as a function of the organism. The sphere of sense and logic of feeling. The sphere of intellect and logic of signs
Author: George Henry Lewes
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Category : Mind and body
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Category : Mind and body
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Mind
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Languages : en
Pages : 656
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A quarterly review of philosophy.
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Languages : en
Pages : 656
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A quarterly review of philosophy.
The Principles of psychology v. 2
Author: William James
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Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Languages : en
Pages : 720
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The Principles of Psycholoby
Author: William James
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Languages : en
Pages : 734
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Languages : en
Pages : 734
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The Principles of Psychology
Author: William James
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Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 730
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Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 730
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