Overview
Taking a new approach to medieval art, Meaning in Motion reveals the profound importance of movement in the physical, emotional, and intellectual experience of art and architecture in the Middle Ages. Focusing on the physical movement of objects and viewers, as well as movements of the mind, this richly illustrated collection of interdisciplinary essays explores a wide range of rituals, performances, works of art, and texts in which movement is crucial to meaning. These include liturgical and devotional practices, but also pilgrimage, reading techniques, and the use of art and allegory in late medieval courtly society. The contributors consider movement not only as a physical action but also as an active intellectual process involving the reception of images, one that creates layers of meaning through the multidimensional experience of objects and spaces, both real and imaginary.This novel approach to medieval art, building on the concept of agency and the understanding of ritual as a performative act, is influenced by two anthropological perspectives: Victor Turner's ""processual"" analysis of rites of passage and Alfred Gell's conception of the interactive relationship between art and the viewer as a process. The essays in this volume engage in an interdisciplinary discussion of the significance of movement for the making and perception of medieval art.
Full Product Details
Author: Nino Zchomelidse ,
Giovanni Freni
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Weight: 1.418kg
ISBN: 9780691151939
ISBN 10: 0691151938
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 25 July 2011
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Language: English
Reviews
Brilliantly produced and abundantly illustrated... [This book is] invested in art's material, corporeal, spatial, and specifically kinetic dimensions. --David S. Areford, Oxford Art Journal
Zchomelidse does a brilliant job of explicating the text through a series of increasingly fascinating examples, especially a beautiful twelfth- or thirteenth-century phylactery produced in the Meuse region. Consisting of multi-lobed enameled panels, this cross-shaped container was likely used to hold relics or even the consecrated Host. --David S. Areford, Oxford Art Journal
Brilliantly produced and abundantly illustrated. . . . [This book is] invested in art's material, corporeal, spatial, and specifically kinetic dimensions. --David S. Areford, Oxford Art Journal
"""Brilliantly produced and abundantly illustrated... [This book is] invested in art's material, corporeal, spatial, and specifically kinetic dimensions.""--David S. Areford, Oxford Art Journal"
Author Information
Nino Zchomelidse is assistant professor in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. Giovanni Freni is an independent scholar who holds a PhD from the Courtauld Institute.
