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Binding the Absent Body in Medieval and Modern Art: Abject, virtual, and alternate bodies book cover

1st Edition

Binding the Absent Body in Medieval and Modern Art Abject, virtual, and alternate bodies

Edited By Emily Kelley, Elizabeth Richards Rivenbark Copyright 2017
200 Pages 35 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 35 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This collection of essays considers artistic works that deal with the body without a visual representation. It explores a range of ways to represent this absence of the figure: from abject elements such as bodily fluids and waste to surrogate forms including reliquaries, manuscripts, and cloth. The collection focuses on two eras, medieval and modern, when images referencing the absent body have... Read more
Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction Emily Kelley and Elizabeth Richards Rivenbark The Abject Body Chapter 1: Blood, Sweat, Tears, and Milk: ‘Fluid’ Veneration in Medieval Devotional Art Vibeke Olson Chapter 2: No Living Presence: Human Absence in the Early Work of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg Rebekah Scoggins The Virtual Body Chapter 3: Maria Ecclesia: The Aachen Marienschrein as an Alternate Body for the Virgin Mary Lisa Ciresi Chapter 4: Drawn to Scale: The Medieval Monastic’s Virtual Pilgrimage through Sacred Measurement Natalie Mandziuk Chapter 5: Cloth as a Sign of the Absent Body in American Sculpture from the 1960s Elizabeth Richards Rivenbark The Alternate Body Chapter 6: Imagining the Sorrows of Death and Pains of Hell in the Hours of Catherine of Cleves Jennifer Feltman Chapter 7: The Absent Body as Divine Reflection in Parmigianino’s Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror Margaret Morse Chapter 8: A Clear Preoccupation with Death: The Absent Body in Mark Rothko’s Mature Style Michael R. Smith, Jr. Bibliography Index

Biography

Emily Kelley is Associate Professor of Art History at Saginaw Valley State University. Her research examines mercantile patronage in late medieval Spain. She has published in the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies and the Hispanic Research Journal. She is co-editor of Mendicants and Merchants in the Medieval Mediterranean (Brill, 2013).

Elizabeth Richards Rivenbark is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of South Alabama. She has published essays on American art in the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries with special interests in gender studies, war imagery, and the body. Her essays appear in Artibus et Historiae, the Women’s Art Journal, and The SECAC Review.

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