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'A gripping read that reassures me that careful, ambitious, radical scholarship is still possible within the field of medieval art history. Assaf Pinkus offers a bold and smart analysis based in careful readings of a wealth of classic and recent scholarship, set against the author's own observations. The study is provocative and timely, clearly written and jargon free. I look forward to seeing the scholarly reaction to it and to using it in teaching. It is a landmark book and one with which all scholars of Gothic art will need to contend.' Nina Rowe, Fordham University, USA 'Assaf Pinkus's Sculpting Simulacra in Medieval Germany, 1250-1380 presents an understanding of Gothic statuary derived from medieval theories of image-production and provides a fresh interpretation of Gothic statues as similitudes of real people so that presence of the represented person is manifested to the observer.' Hortulus 'Assaf's provocative book should encourage more anglophone scholars to study these marvellous works.' Art Newspaper

'A gripping read that reassures me that careful, ambitious, radical scholarship is still possible within the field of medieval art history. Assaf Pinkus offers a bold and smart analysis based in careful readings of a wealth of classic and recent scholarship, set against the author's own observations. The study is provocative and timely, clearly written and jargon free. I look forward to seeing the scholarly reaction to it and to using it in teaching. It is a landmark book and one with which all scholars of Gothic art will need to contend.' Nina Rowe, Fordham University, USA 'Assaf Pinkus's Sculpting Simulacra in Medieval Germany, 1250-1380 presents an understanding of Gothic statuary derived from medieval theories of image-production and provides a fresh interpretation of Gothic statues as similitudes of real people so that presence of the represented person is manifested to the observer.' Hortulus

Pinkus uses pertinent examples throughout to argue his case for a multiplicity of meaning in these Gothic sculptures - Judith Collard, Otago University

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Assaf Pinkus, Associate Professor and Chair of the Art History Department at Tel Aviv University, works on production, patronage, spectatorship, and response in later medieval German sculpture and trecento painting.

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