Iconography Beyond the Crossroads: Image, Meaning, and Method in Medieval Art

This volume explores how current approaches to iconology and iconography break new ground in understanding the signification and reception of medieval images, highlighting the heuristic value of new perspectives and methods.

Format: Hardback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 24 May 2022
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press

This comprehensive volume explores groundbreaking approaches to iconology and iconography, shedding light on the significance and reception of medieval images across time. Through a series of critical essays that adopt historiographical and sociopolitical lenses, the book delves into the intricate factors that shape iconographic meaning, including medieval modes of dialectical thought, the representation of time, the viewer's spatial navigation, the fragmentation and injury of both image and subject, and the complex strategy of comparing distant cultural paradigms.

The contributions in this volume are interconnected by a shared commitment to understanding the ways in which medieval images generated meaning, to appreciating the value of new perspectives and methodologies in examining the role of images in the Middle Ages and our contemporary world, and to recognizing the nuanced interplay between scholarship and society that can lead to mutual and unexpected transformations.

Collectively, the essays showcased in this volume exemplify the broad scope, adaptability, and vitality of iconographic studies as a scholarly field that remains steadfastly committed to reimagining its own boundaries. Alongside the volume editors, the contributors to this work include Madeline H. Caviness, Beatrice Kitzinger, Aden Kumler, Christopher R. Lakey, Glenn Peers, Jennifer Purtle, and Elizabeth Sears.

Weight: 1066g
Dimension: 254 x 203 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780271090566