Reading medieval images : the art historian and the object / edited by Elizabeth Sears and Thelma K. Thomas.
Contributor(s): Sears, Elizabeth
| Thomas, Thelma K | Forsyth, Ilene H.
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BookPublisher: Ann Arbor, MI : University of Michigan Press, 2002Description: xvii, 256 p. : ill., map ; 27 cm.ISBN: 0472097512 ; 0472067516 .Subject(s): Art, Medieval | Symbolism in artDDC classification: 704.9460902
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What is it that art historians do when they approach works of art? What kind of language do they use to descibe what they see? How do they construct arguments using visual evidence? What sorts of arguments do they make? In this unusual anthology, eighteen prominent art historians specializing in the medieval field (European, Byzantine, and Islamic) provide answers to these fundamental questions, not directly but by way of example. Each author, responding to invitation, has chosen for study a single image or object and has submitted it to sustained analysis. The collection of essays, accompanied by statements on methodology by the editors, offers an accessible introduction to current art-historical practice.Elizabeth L. Sears is Associate Professor of the History of Art, University of Michigan.Thelma K. Thomas is Associate Professor of the History of Art and Associate Curator of the Kelsey Museum, University of Michigan.
Dedicated to medievalist Ilene Forsyth.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-252).