Pneuma and the Visual Medium in the Middle Ages and Early Modernity: Essays on Wind, Ruach, Incarnation, Odour, Stains, Movement, Kairos, Web and Sile

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-90-429-3250-0
Verlag: PEETERS PUB

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 226 Seiten, Gewicht: 45 g

Reihe: Art & Religion

The focus of these essays is the impact of wind, pneuma, and

movement in medieval and early modern iconography on art historical

hermeneutics. What can wind, pneuma, and movement tell us about

the visual medium as such? Wind joins, flows, links, changes direction –

in short, the wind is capricious. In its capriciousness wind embodies a

particular hermeneutics of association, of freedom and the unexpected.

Is an iconography of this caprice possible? How does one capture in

pictorial form a natural phenomenon that envelops and penetrates us,

even escapes from our own bodies? The dynamics of wind are after all

only indirectly visible: swaying trees, waving grass, fluttering

textile. How has wind impregnated the theory of the image? Is it a

question of visual pneuma? And is wind in the arts a question of

content, or rather a matter of formal affect?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baert, B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Völkerwanderung und Mittelalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte