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Gothic art : glorious visions / Michael Camille.

By: Series: Perspectives (Harry N. Abrams, Inc.)Publication details: New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1996.Description: 192 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0810927012
  • 9780810927018
  • 0135701775
  • 9780135701775
  • 0131830600
  • 9780131830608
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709.02/2 20
LOC classification:
  • N6310 .C36 1996
Contents:
Map: Europe during the Gothic Period -- Introduction: new ways of seeing Gothic art: The Gothic look - Modes of vision - Seeing and knowing -- New visions of space: The Heavenly Jerusalem - Celestial light - Earthly vistas -- New visions of time: Time past - Time future - Time present -- New visions of God: Public visions - Private visions - Mystical visions -- New visions of nature: Flowers and gardens - Beasts and birds - Bodies and borders -- New visions of the self: Portraits and performers - Mirrors and lovers - Artists and viewers -- Timeline -- Bibligraphy -- Picture credits -- Index.
Review: "When we look at the soaring spaces of Chartres Cathedral or the shimmering pages of a gilded and painted manuscript, we are witnesses to a new kind of vision. In this radical reappraisal of Gothic art in Europe, the word "Gothic" describes not only an art style but a changing concept of space, time, and society - a new kind of perception, both visual and spiritual, in which light is of central importance. Camille shows us how the art of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries was seen in its own time and explores the way vision itself was understood. In this age of glorious painting, magnificent, intricate architecture and sculpture, and jewellike manuscript illumination, art was an expression of religious passion and earthly power, of public and private wealth; of science and learning. The new vision led to an explosion of brilliant images but had its grim side, rarely noticed by art history: the distorted representation of "others" like Jews, heretics, and lepers; a new vision not only of the marvelous, but also of the grotesque."--Jacket.
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Perspectives.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-187) and index.

Map: Europe during the Gothic Period -- Introduction: new ways of seeing Gothic art: The Gothic look - Modes of vision - Seeing and knowing -- New visions of space: The Heavenly Jerusalem - Celestial light - Earthly vistas -- New visions of time: Time past - Time future - Time present -- New visions of God: Public visions - Private visions - Mystical visions -- New visions of nature: Flowers and gardens - Beasts and birds - Bodies and borders -- New visions of the self: Portraits and performers - Mirrors and lovers - Artists and viewers -- Timeline -- Bibligraphy -- Picture credits -- Index.

"When we look at the soaring spaces of Chartres Cathedral or the shimmering pages of a gilded and painted manuscript, we are witnesses to a new kind of vision. In this radical reappraisal of Gothic art in Europe, the word "Gothic" describes not only an art style but a changing concept of space, time, and society - a new kind of perception, both visual and spiritual, in which light is of central importance. Camille shows us how the art of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries was seen in its own time and explores the way vision itself was understood. In this age of glorious painting, magnificent, intricate architecture and sculpture, and jewellike manuscript illumination, art was an expression of religious passion and earthly power, of public and private wealth; of science and learning. The new vision led to an explosion of brilliant images but had its grim side, rarely noticed by art history: the distorted representation of "others" like Jews, heretics, and lepers; a new vision not only of the marvelous, but also of the grotesque."--Jacket.