Sculpting Simulacra in Medieval Germany, 1250-1380

ISBN-13: 9781138548060 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 264 str.

Assaf Pinkus

Opis

This book constitutes the first art-historical attempt to theorize the idiosyncratic character of German Gothic sculpture and trace the high and late medieval notions of the ’living statue’ and the simulacrum in religious, lay and travel literature. In addressing a range of works, from the oeuvre of the Naumburg Master through Freiburg-im-Breisgau to the imperial art of Vienna and Prague, Pinkus offers a new understanding of the function, production, and use of three-dimensional images in late-medieval Germany.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction: medieval symulachra; Casting the heroes: from Naumburg to Disney; Lost in symulachra: the appearance of the king in 14th-century Germany; Moving violence: the simulacral body of martyrs; Voyeuristic stimuli: seeing through the schreinmadonna; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

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.