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Depositions: Scenes from the Late Medieval Church and the Modern Museum
Amy Powell
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Description for Depositions: Scenes from the Late Medieval Church and the Modern Museum
Hardcover. Num Pages: 376 pages, 8 color illus., 80 b&w illus. BIC Classification: ACK; AFC; AGR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 736.
A provocative study of the iconoclastic impulse in medieval and modern art. From late medieval reenactments of the Deposition from the Cross to Sol Lewitt's Buried Cube, Depositions is about taking down images and about images that anticipate being taken down. Foretelling their own depositions, as well as their re-elevations in contexts far from those in which they were made, the images studied in this book reveal themselves to be untimely-no truer to their first appearance than to their later reappearances. In Depositions, Amy Powell makes the case that late medieval paintings and ritual ... Read more
A provocative study of the iconoclastic impulse in medieval and modern art. From late medieval reenactments of the Deposition from the Cross to Sol Lewitt's Buried Cube, Depositions is about taking down images and about images that anticipate being taken down. Foretelling their own depositions, as well as their re-elevations in contexts far from those in which they were made, the images studied in this book reveal themselves to be untimely-no truer to their first appearance than to their later reappearances. In Depositions, Amy Powell makes the case that late medieval paintings and ritual ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Zone Books United States
Number of pages
376
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
735g
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781935408208
SKU
V9781935408208
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About Amy Powell
Amy Knight Powell is Assistant Professor in Art History at the University of California, Irvine.
Reviews for Depositions: Scenes from the Late Medieval Church and the Modern Museum
Powell's Depositions has the capacity to change the terms of debate in art history in fundamental and necessary ways. -Caroline Walker Bynum, Common Knowledge