The Absent Image - Lacunae in Medieval Books

Explores the late medieval concepts of absence and void, with a special focus on the materiality of emptiness in later medieval manuscripts.

About the author

Elina Gertsman is Distinguished University Professor of Art History and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University. She is the author of the award-winning Worlds Within: Opening the Medieval Shrine Madonna, also published by Penn State University Press.

Summary

Explores the late medieval concepts of absence and void, with a special focus on the materiality of emptiness in later medieval manuscripts.

Product details

• Authors: Elina Gertsman, Elina (Case Western Reserve University) Gertsman, Gertsman Elina
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.06.2021
• EAN: 9780271087849
• ISBN: 978-0-271-08784-9
• Dimensions: 229 mm x 254 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 1338 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Raster, farbig
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Theory of art, ART / Subjects & Themes / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / European, History of Art, History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400, Philosophy: aesthetics, Medieval style, ART / History / European / Medieval