Meaning in Motion - The Semantics of Movement in Medieval Art

Zusatztext "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 Informationen zum Autor 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

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• Authors: Nino Zchomelidse, Nino (EDT)/ Freni Zchomelidse, Nino Freni Zchomelidse
• Assisted by: Giovanni Freni (Editor), Freni Giovanni (Editor), Nino Zchomelidse (Editor)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.07.2011
• EAN: 9780691151939
• ISBN: 978-0-691-15193-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Publications of the Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University; Publications of the Department; Publications of the Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; History of Art, Art treatments & subjects, History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400, The Arts: treatments and subjects, Medieval style, ART / History / European / Medieval