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To write about works that cannot be sensually perceived involves considerable strain. Absent the object, art historians must stretch their methods to, or even past, the breaking point. This concise volume addresses the problems inherent in studying medieval works of art, artifacts, and monuments that have disappeared, have been destroyed, or perhaps never existed in the first place.The contributors to this volume are confronted with the full expanse of what they cannot see, handle, or know. Connecting object histories, the anthropology of images, and historiography, they seek to understand how people have made sense of the past by examining objects, images, and architectural and urban spaces. Intersecting these approaches is a deep current of reflection upon the theorization of historical analysis and the ways in which the past is inscribed into layers of evidence that are only ever revealed in the historian’s present tense.Highly original and theoretically sophisticated, this volume will stimulate debate among art historians about the critical practices used to confront the formative presence of destruction, loss, obscurity, and existential uncertainty within the history of art and the study of historical material and visual cultures.In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume are Michele Bacci, Claudia Brittenham, Sonja Drimmer, Jaś Elsner, Peter Geimer, Danielle B. Joyner, Kristopher W. Kersey, Lena Liepe, Meekyung MacMurdie, and Michelle McCoy.
Del 2 - ICMA Books | Viewpoints
Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline?
Toward a Critical Historiography
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
281 kr
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Is Byzantine Studies a colonialist discipline? Rather than provide a definitive answer to this question, this book defines the parameters of the debate and proposes ways of thinking about what it would mean to engage seriously with the field’s political and intellectual genealogies, hierarchies, and forms of exclusion.In this volume, scholars of art, history, and literature address the entanglements, past and present, among the academic discipline of Byzantine Studies and the practice and legacies of European colonialism. Starting with the premise that Byzantium and the field of Byzantine studies are simultaneously colonial and colonized, the chapters address topics ranging from the material basis of philological scholarship and its uses in modern politics to the colonial plunder of art and its consequences for curatorial practice in the present. The book concludes with a bibliography that serves as a foundation for a coherent and systematic critical historiography. Bringing together insights from scholars working in different disciplines, regions, and institutions, Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline? urges practitioners to reckon with the discipline’s colonialist, imperialist, and white supremacist history.In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Andrea Myers Achi, Nathanael Aschenbrenner, Bahattin Bayram, Averil Cameron, Stephanie R. Caruso, Şebnem Dönbekci, Hugh G. Jeffery, Anthony Kaldellis, Matthew Kinloch, Nicholas S. M. Matheou, Maria Mavroudi, Zeynep Olgun, Arietta Papaconstantinou, Jake Ransohoff, Alexandra Vukovich, Elizabeth Dospěl Williams, and Arielle Winnik.
Del 3 - ICMA Books | Viewpoints
Queer Making
On Artists and Desire in Medieval Europe
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
227 kr
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What role does desire play in the making of art objects? Art historians typically answer this question by referring to historical evidence about an artist’s sexual identity or to particular kinds of imagery. But what about anonymous artists? Or works whose subject matter is mainstream?We know little about the identities and personalities of most premodern artists, but this should not hold us back from thinking about their embodied experience. In this book, Karl Whittington contends that we can “queer” the works of anonymous makers by thinking about their embodied experiences creating art. Considering issues of touch, pressure, and gesture across substances such as wood, stone, ivory, wax, cloth, paint, and metal, Whittington argues for an erotics of artisanal labor, in which the actions of hand, body, and breath interact in intimate ways with materials. Whittington takes seriously the agency of materials and technical processes, arguing that they necessarily placed the bodies of artists and artisans into physical situations and psychological states that can be read through the lens of desire.Combining historical evidence with speculative description, this evocative set of essays broadens our understanding of the motivations and experiences of premodern artists. It will appeal to scholars and students of art history, medieval studies, gender studies, queer studies, and anthropology.
567 kr
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Medieval monuments and memorials are never simply remnants of the past. Across the world, they are continually destroyed, restored, reinvented, and mobilized in the service of contemporary politics. Inventing Heritage stages a debate about medievalism and Byzantinism as global political phenomena, examining how cultural heritage becomes a site of conflict, political domination, and public memory.The essays in this volume critically assess the management, mismanagement, and appropriation of heritage through case studies from the Balkans, Turkey, Spain, the United States, Peru, and Japan. Contributors explore how medieval monuments—old and new, material and narrative, real and (re)imagined—are mobilized to convey political meaning in modern contexts. The essays examine the destruction, protection, and reinvention of a range of cultural sites as well as the ways in which education, historiography, media, and storytelling shape competing claims to the past. Particular attention is given to the Balkans, where the destruction of monuments during the wars of the 1990s and ongoing struggles over cultural landscapes reveal how heritage becomes entangled with economic policies, anti-colonial and national discourses, and global heritage institutions.Bringing together scholars from multiple disciplines and regions, Inventing Heritage offers a framework for understanding the politics of medieval heritage and the contested meanings of public space. It will appeal to specialists in medieval and Byzantine studies, as well as readers concerned with the global politics of heritage and memory.In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume are Natsuko Akagawa, Jovana Anđelković, Güldem Baykal Büyüksaraç, Roland Betancourt, Neven Budak, Koray Durak, Filip Ejdus, Helen Fortescue-Poole, Rachel Goshgarian, Višnja Kisić, Milena Methodieva, Luis Muro Ynoñán, Elena Paulino Montero, Ana Radaković, Milena Repajić, Marko Šuica, Hakan Tarhan, and Gustav Wollentz.