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A Feast for the Eyes: Art, Performance, and the Late Medieval Banquet
Christina Normore
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Description for A Feast for the Eyes: Art, Performance, and the Late Medieval Banquet
Hardcover. Drawing on an array of artworks and chroniclers' accounts, to reassess the medieval visual culture in which banquets were staged, this book shows the ways of appreciating artistic skill and attending to their own processes of perception, thereby forging a court culture that delighted in the exercise of fine aesthetic judgment. Num Pages: 272 pages, 4 colour plates, 35 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; ACK; AS; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 165 x 28. Weight in Grams: 584.
To read accounts of late medieval banquets is to enter a fantastic world where live lions guard nude statues, gilded stags burst into song, and musicians play from within pies. Such vivid works of art and performance required collaboration among artists in many fields, as well as the participation of the audience. A Feast for the Eyes is the first book - length study of the court banquets of northwestern Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Christina Normore draws on an array of artworks, archival documents, chroniclers' accounts, and cookbooks to re-create these events and reassess the late medieval ... Read more
To read accounts of late medieval banquets is to enter a fantastic world where live lions guard nude statues, gilded stags burst into song, and musicians play from within pies. Such vivid works of art and performance required collaboration among artists in many fields, as well as the participation of the audience. A Feast for the Eyes is the first book - length study of the court banquets of northwestern Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Christina Normore draws on an array of artworks, archival documents, chroniclers' accounts, and cookbooks to re-create these events and reassess the late medieval ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
557g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226242200
SKU
V9780226242200
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About Christina Normore
Christina Normore is assistant professor of art history at Northwestern University.
Reviews for A Feast for the Eyes: Art, Performance, and the Late Medieval Banquet
"Normore's readings of images are convincing and eloquent. Not only do they shed light on previously misunderstood or ignored elements of those images, they also elucidate ways in which the images would have played an instrumental role in shaping their audiences' understanding of, and participation in, rituals of the table. Beautifully written, A Feast for the Eyes brings the period ... Read more