Animation between Magic, Miracles and Mechanics
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Animation between Magic, Miracles and Mechanics

Principles of Life in Medieval Imagery

  1. 295 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Animation between Magic, Miracles and Mechanics

Principles of Life in Medieval Imagery

About this book

When it comes to images, we are all animists. Deep down, we all know that images can – at least potentially – be alive or come to life. Nowadays, we may tend to rationalize our ingrained animism and explain it away as a mere projection only happening in the space between image and viewer. In the Middle Ages, however, imagery made enthusiastic use of magical, miraculous and mechanical means of animation, empowered and ensouled by both natural and supernatural principles of life. This animist book investigates magic, miracles and mechanics as motors of animation and seeks to understand the living image in solidarity with medieval experience rather than dismissive alienation of it. Effigies did bleed, weep or lactate, either through divine intervention or through hydraulic machinery. Statues did move or speak, either as demonic oracles or as talking heads with implanted speaking tubes. Marvels made by magic or by miracles were real, as real as the wonders of physical mechanics moving bodily matter. We just need to look and listen more carefully to comprehend these fluid realities, even when – especially when – they challenge our received worldview. Animation was by no means uncontested or uncontradicted, but even its stiffest critics knew that gods and demons could intervene in inanimate matter to set it in motion, to speak in tongues and exude the liquids of life.

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Information

Publisher
Aarhus University Press
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9788772196534
eBook ISBN
9788775972654
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Art général

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Animist acknowledgements
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1 Statuas animatas
  8. Chapter 2 The continuum of animation
  9. Chapter 3 Moving matter
  10. Chapter 4 Potential images
  11. Chapter 5 The miraculous image
  12. Chapter 6 Visions and miracles
  13. Epilogue The life and afterlife of medieval animation
  14. List of illustrations
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index
  17. Backcover

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