The mind's eye : art and theological argument in the Middle Ages / edited by Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Anne-Marie Bouché.
| Other author | Hamburger, Jeffrey F., 1957- |
| Other author | Bouché, Anne-Marie. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Princeton, N.J. : Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University in association with Princeton University Press, ©2006. |
| Description | xiv, 447 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Contributor biographical information |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The place of theology in medieval art history: problems, positions, possibilities / Jeffrey F. Hamburger -- Anthropology and the use of religious images in the Opus Caroli Regis (Libri Carolini) / Karl F. Morrison -- Replica: images of identity and the identity of images in prescholastic France / Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak -- Is there a theology of the Gothic cathedral? a re-reading of Abbot Suger's writings on the abbey church of St.-Denis / Andreas Speer -- Christ and the vision of God: the Biblical diagrams of the Codex Amiatinus / Celia Chazelle -- Raban Maur, Bernard de Clairvauz, Bonaventure: expression de l'espace et topographie spirituelle dans les images médiévales / Christian Heck -- Typology and its uses in the moralized Bible / Christopher Hughes -- L'Exception corporelle: à propos de l'Assomption de Marie / Jean-Claude Schmitt -- Theologians as Trinitarian iconographers / Bernard McGinn -- Seeing and seeing beyond: the mass of St. Gregory in the fifteenth century / Caroline Walker Bynum -- Porous subject matter and Christ's haunted infancy / Alfred Acres -- Love's arrows: Christ as cupid in late medieval art and devotion / Barbara Newman -- Moving images in the mind's eye / Mary Carruthers -- Vox Imaginis: anomaly and enigma in Romanesque art / Anne-Marie Bouché -- Seeing as action and passion in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / Katherine H. Tachau -- "As far as the eye can see...": rituals of gazing in the late middle ages / Thomas Lentes -- the medieval work of art: wherein the "work"? wherein the "art"? / Jeffery R. Hamburger -- Turning a blind eye: medieval art andt he dynamics of contemplation / Herbert L. Kessler. |
| Abstract | "The Mind's Eye focuses on the relationships among art, theology, exegesis, and literature--issues long central to the study of medieval art, yet ripe for reconsideration. Essays by leading scholars from many fields examine the illustration of theological commentaries, the use of images to expound or disseminate doctrine, the role of images within theological discourse, the development of doctrine in response to images, and the place of vision and the visual in theological thought. At issue are the ways in which theologians responded to the images that we call art and in which images entered into dialogue with theological discourse. In what ways could medieval art be construed as argumentative in structure as well as in function? Are any of the modes of representation in medieval art analogous to those found in texts? In what ways did images function as vehicles, not merely vessels, of meaning and signification? To what extent can exegesis and other genres of theological discourse shed light on the form, as well as the content and function, of medieval images? These are only some of the challenging questions posed by this unprecedented and interdisciplinary collection, which provides a historical framework within which to reconsider the relationship between seeing and thinking, perception and the imagination in the Middle Ages." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0654/2005049252-d.html. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Language | Two contributions in French. |
| LCCN | 2005049252 |
| ISBN | 0691124752 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0691124760 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780691124759 |
| ISBN | 9780691124766 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | N7850 .M56 2006 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |