When we look at the soaring spaces of Chartres cathedral or the shimmering pages of a gilded and painted manuscript, we are witnesses to a new kind of vision. In this radical reappraisal of Gothic art in Europe, the word 'Gothic' describes not only an art style but a changing concepts of space, time, and society...a new kind of perception, both visual and spiritual, in which light is of central importance. Camille shows us how the art of the 13th and 14th centuries was seen in its own time and explores the way vision itself was understood. In this age of glorious painting, magnificent, intricate architecture and sculpture, and jewel-like manuscript illumination, art was an expression of religious passion and earthly power, of public and private wealth; of science and learning. The new vision led to an explosion of brilliant images but had its grim side, rarely noticed by art history; the distorted representation of 'others' like Jews, heretics, and lepers; a new vision not only of the marvelous, but also of the grotesque. This book stands in contrast to traditional art-historical approaches, which often concentrate on the technology of architecture and the minutiae of iconography. Unusual elements such as a discussion of the Gothic Revival movement of the 19th century provide a broad scope, while artworks from London to Prague, from Scandinavia to southern Spain reveal the gothic to be a truly international style.

Gothic Art: Glorious Visions (Perspectives)

Michael Camille

History

Prentice Hall/Harry N. Abrams

Part of Prentice Hall's Perspectives series of moderately priced, heavily illustrated, high-quality paperback books on specific subjects in art history, this survey of Gothic art in Europe takes a fresh look at the meaning of the term "Gothic" and examines the art of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in terms of the way it is seen.

Gothic Art: Glorious Visions

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

PRENTICE/HALL

First edition. Three hundred years ago, now treasured medieval manuscripts were scorned, neglected and left to vandals. An exhibit held at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art early in 2001, sought to explore new ideas and perspectives on the destruction and reconstitution of illuminated manuscripts in the 18th and 19th centuries in France and England and in the early 20th century in America. Although many questions remain unanswered, the research presented in this Catalogue to accompany the exhibition helps define the field of study for the future. With 159 black-and-white illustrations and 38 beautiful color plates, bibliography and index. xxviii, 329+ 1 pages in addition to 32 leaves of color plates. stiff paper wrappers. small 4to..

Manuscript Illumination In The Modern Age

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

HINDMAN, Sandra

Nina Rowe

Rowan Watson

Antiques & Collectibles

Mary & Leigh Block Gallery

Camille considers marginalia--in the cathedral, the court, the monastery--in direct and complex relation to the whole work. Ranging through the culture of the Middle Ages, he finds in the margins a distorted yet apt reflection of medieval conventions. It is here that medieval artists found room for experimentation, for parodying, modernizing, and questioning cultural authority without ever undermining it.

Image on the Edge: Margins of Medieval Art (Essays in Art & Culture)

Reaktion Books

Gothic Art

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Die Kunst der Gotik. art in context. H�fe, Kl�ster

Fisical_Book

Die Kunst der Liebe im Mittelalter

Todtri, 2003

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