The Gothic Screen - Space, Sculpture, Community in Cathedrals of France Germany, Ca.1200

Informationen zum Autor Jacqueline E. Jung is Assistant Professor of Medieval Art and Architecture in the Department of History of Art at Yale University, Connecticut. She is the author of articles in The Art Bulletin, Gesta, and numerous anthologies and catalogs both in the United States and Germany, as well as the translator of several seminal art historical writings, most notably Aloïs Riegl's Historical Grammar of the Visual Arts (2004). Klappentext This book reveals how Gothic choir screens, through both their architecture and sculpture, were vital vehicles of communication and shapers of community within the Christian church. Zusammenfassung This book reveals how Gothic choir screens! through both their architecture and sculpture! were vital vehicles of communication and shapers of community within the Christian church. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. The Screen as Sculpture: 1. The choir screen as partition; 2. The choir screen as bridge; 3. The choir screen as frame; Part II. The Sculpture on the Screen: 4. Women, men, and the social order; 5. Jews, Christians, and the question of the individual; 6. Nobles, peasants, and the vernacular mode; Epilogue.

Product details

• Authors: Jacqueline E Jung, Jacqueline E. Jung, Jacqueline E. (Yale University Jung, Jung Jacqueline E.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9781108430760
• ISBN: 978-1-108-43076-0
• No. of pages: 300
• Dimensions: 215 mm x 280 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; History, France, European History, Germany, HISTORY / Europe / General, Christianity, The arts, History of Religion, c 1000 CE to c 1500, European history: medieval period, middle ages