The Gothic Screen: Space, Sculpture, and Community in the Cathedrals of France and Germany, Ca.1200-1400

ISBN-13: 9781108430760 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 300 str.

Jacqueline E. Jung

Opis

This book reveals how Gothic choir screens, through both their architecture and sculpture, were vital vehicles of communication and shapers of community within the Christian church.

Recenzje

"At the turn of this century, Jacqueline Jung published an influential article on choir screens in Gothic great churches. She has been regarded as the leading Anglo-American specialist on these furnishings ever since, a status maintained through publication of subsequent essays. Now, at last, her monograph on the topic has arrived in the form of an authoritative statement of the role of screens as space-co-ordinating, performative, psychology-conditioning objects."
Julian Luxford, The Burlington Magazine

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. The Screen as Sculpture: 1. The choir screen as partition; 2. The choir screen as bridge; 3. The choir screen as frame; Part II. The Sculpture on the Screen: 4. Women, men, and the social order; 5. Jews, Christians, and the question of the individual; 6. Nobles, peasants, and the vernacular mode; Epilogue.