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Meaning in Motion: The Semantics of Movement in Medieval Art
Nino Zchomelidse
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Description for Meaning in Motion: The Semantics of Movement in Medieval Art
Hardback. Taking an approach to medieval art, this title reveals the importance of movement in the physical, emotional, and intellectual experience of art and architecture in the Middle Ages. It offers a collection of interdisciplinary essays that explores a range of rituals, performances, works of art, and texts in which movement is crucial to meaning. Editor(s): Zchomelidse, Nino; Freni, Giovanni. Series: Publications of the Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University. Num Pages: 288 pages, 155 color illus. 17 halftones. 3 line illus. BIC Classification: ACK; AG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 279 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1456.
Taking a new approach to medieval art, Meaning in Motion reveals the profound importance of movement in the physical, emotional, and intellectual experience of art and architecture in the Middle Ages. Focusing on the physical movement of objects and viewers, as well as movements of the mind, this richly illustrated collection of interdisciplinary essays explores a wide range of rituals, performances, works of art, and texts in which movement is crucial to meaning. These include liturgical and devotional practices, but also pilgrimage, reading techniques, and the use of art and allegory in late medieval courtly society. The contributors consider movement ... Read more
Taking a new approach to medieval art, Meaning in Motion reveals the profound importance of movement in the physical, emotional, and intellectual experience of art and architecture in the Middle Ages. Focusing on the physical movement of objects and viewers, as well as movements of the mind, this richly illustrated collection of interdisciplinary essays explores a wide range of rituals, performances, works of art, and texts in which movement is crucial to meaning. These include liturgical and devotional practices, but also pilgrimage, reading techniques, and the use of art and allegory in late medieval courtly society. The contributors consider movement ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Publications of the Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691151939
SKU
V9780691151939
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About Nino Zchomelidse
Nino Zchomelidse is assistant professor in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. Giovanni Freni is an independent scholar who holds a PhD from the Courtauld Institute.
Reviews for Meaning in Motion: The Semantics of Movement in Medieval Art
"Brilliantly produced and abundantly illustrated... [This book is] invested in art's material, corporeal, spatial, and specifically kinetic dimensions."
David S. Areford, Oxford Art Journal
David S. Areford, Oxford Art Journal