Medieval art at the intersection of visuality and material culture : studies in the 'semantics of vision' / edited by Raphaèle Preisinger.

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2021]

247 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

"The articles in this book contribute to the ongoing shift in the fields of art history and medieval history from considerations of vision to those of visuality by according theoretical accounts of vision and cultural practices of seeing equal importance. Over the last two decades the historiography of medieval art has been defined by two seemingly contradictory trends: a focus on questions of visuality, and more recently an emphasis on materiality. The latter, which has encouraged multi-sensorial approaches to medieval art, has come to be perceived as a counterpoint to the study of visuality as defined in ocularcentric terms.Bringing together specialists from different areas of art history, this book grapples with this dialectic and poses new avenues for reconciling these two opposing tendencies. The essays in this volume demonstrate the necessity of returning to questions of visuality, taking into account the insights gained from the material turn. They highlight conceptions of vision that attribute a haptic quality to the act of seeing and draw on bodily perception to shed new light on visuality in the Middle Ages."--Provided by vendor.

e-book version

English

February 08, 2022

Includes bibliographical references and index.