The Mind's Eye

Art and Theological Argument in the Middle Ages
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-691-12476-6
Verlag: Princeton University Press

Buch, Englisch, 464 Seiten, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 280 mm, Gewicht: 1158 g

Reihe: Publications of the Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University

The Mind's Eye focuses on the relationships among art, theology, exegesis, and literature--issues long central to the study of medieval art, yet ripe for reconsideration. Essays by leading scholars from many fields examine the illustration of theological commentaries, the use of images to expound or disseminate doctrine, the role of images within theological discourse, the development of doctrine in response to images, and the place of vision and the visual in theological thought. At issue are the ways in which theologians responded to the images that we call art and in which images entered into dialogue with theological discourse. In what ways could medieval art be construed as argumentative in structure as well as in function? Are any of the modes of representation in medieval art analogous to those found in texts? In what ways did images function as vehicles, not merely vessels, of meaning and signification? To what extent can exegesis and other genres of theological discourse shed light on the form, as well as the content and function, of medieval images? These are only some of the challenging questions posed by this unprecedented and interdisciplinary collection, which provides a historical framework within which to reconsider the relationship between seeing and thinking, perception and the imagination in the Middle Ages.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hamburger, Jeffrey F.

Bouché, Anne-Marie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Kirchliche Bildungseinrichtungen, Diakonie, Caritas
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Christliche Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Christliche Kunst und Kultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen: Religiöse Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Liturgik, Christliche Anbetung, Sakramente, Rituale, Feiertage
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Frühchristliche, byzantinische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Völkerwanderung und Mittelalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Byzantinisch

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction by Jeffrey F. Hamburger

The Place of Theology in Medieval Art History: Problems, Positions, Possibilities by Jeffrey F. Hamburger

Anthropology and the Use of Religious Images in the Opus Caroli Regis (Libri Carolini) by Karl F. Morrison

Replica: Images of Identity and the Identity of Images in Prescholastic France by Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak

Is There a Theology of the Gothic Cathedral? A Re-reading of Abbot Suger's Writings on the Abbey Church of St.-Denis by Andreas Speer

Christ and the Vision of God: The Biblical Diagrams of the Codex Amiatinus by Celia Chazelle

Raban Maur, Bernard de Clairvaux, Bonaventure: expression de l'espace et topographie spirituelle dans les images m?di?vales by Christian Heck

Typology and Its Uses in the Moralized Bible by Christopher Hughes

L'Exception corporelle: ? propos de l'Assomption de Marie by Jean-Claude Schmitt

Theologians as Trinitarian Iconographers by Bernard McGinn

Seeing and Seeing Beyond: The Mass of St. Gregory in the Fifteenth Century by Caroline Walker Bynum

Porous Subject Matter and Christ's Haunted Infancy by Alfred Acres

Love's Arrows: Christ as Cupid in Late Medieval Art and Devotion by Barbara Newman

Moving Images in the Mind's Eye by Marty Carruthers

Vox Imaginis: Anomaly and Enigma in Romanesque Art by Anne-Marie Bouch?

Seeing as Action and Passion in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries by Katherine H. Tachau

"As far as the eye can see.": Rituals of Gazing in the Late Middle Ages by Thomas Lentes

The Medieval Work of Art: Wherein the "Work"? Wherein the "Art"? by Jeffrey F. Hamburger

Turning a Blind Eye: Medieval Art and the Dynamics of Contemplation by Herbert L. Kessler

Über Autor(innen)

Jeffrey F. Hamburger is Professor in the Department of History of Art & Architecture at Harvard University. His books include "St. John the Divine: The Deified Evangelist in Medieval Art and Theology" and "The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany". Anne-Marie Bouche is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History & Archaeology at Columbia University.