264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
Engaging with the imaginative, nonreligious response to Gothic sculpture in German-speaking lands and tracing high and late medieval notions of the ’living statue’ and the simulacrum in religious, lay, and travel literature, this study explores the subjective and intuitive potential inherent in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century sculpture. It addresses a range of works, from the oeuvre of the... Read more
Contents: Introduction: medieval symulachra; Casting the heroes: from Naumburg to Disney; Lost in symulachra: the appearance of the king in 14th-century Germany; Moving violence: the simulacral body of martyrs; Voyeuristic stimuli: seeing through the schreinmadonna; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Assaf Pinkus, Associate Professor and Chair of the Art History Department at Tel Aviv University, works on production, patronage, spectatorship, and response in later medieval German sculpture and trecento painting.
"Pinkus uses pertinent examples throughout to argue his case for a multiplicity of meaning in these Gothic sculptures" – Judith Collard, Otago University
