
The Agency of Art Objects in Northern Europe, 13801520
- 1,032 pages
- English
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The Agency of Art Objects in Northern Europe, 13801520
About this book
This monograph book offers a new interpretation of northern European art of the fifteenth century. The author presents it as a conglomerate of objects-things which act on the recipient in a specific ā material and spatial ā way. He analyzes macro-scale objects that impose movement on the viewer, and micro-scale objects that encourage manipulation. Inspired by the anti-anthropocentric concept of "returning to things" (B. Latour, A. Gell and others), the author searches for the "agency of things" in late-medieval art objects, which evoke specific liturgical, devotional, propaganda-political behaviors, or establish the status of social owner of the object that once co-created the network of material and spiritual culture. This methodologically innovative approach is part of the latest research in early art in Western Europe and the United States.
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Table of contents
- 00_FM_ePDF.pdf
- Cover
- Copyright information
- Contents
- I. INTRODUCTION
- II. OBJECTS IN SPACE:Ā THE MOBILITY OF THE BEHOLDER
- III. ANIMATED THINGS: MANIPULATION AND HANDLING
- IV. WORDS AND TEXTS IN ART:Ā THE CULTURE OF READING INĀ PAINTINGS
- V. TIME AND THE NARRATIVE IN PAINTINGS
- VI. MEDITATIVE SPACES:Ā GREAT AND SMALL PILGRIMAGES
- VII. THE AGENCY OF THINGS AND HUMANSĀ ā FINAL REMARKS
- Selected bibliography
- List of Illustrations and Photo Credits
- Index of Historic Persons
- Series index