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Medieval Modern
Alexander Nagel
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Description for Medieval Modern
Hardcover. Explores the connections between modern and premodern art, offering a radical reading that reveals the underlying patterns and ideas traversing centuries of artistic practice. This book reconsiders from a double perspective some key issues in the history of art, from iconoclasm and illusionism to the status of painting, and installation. Num Pages: 312 pages, 134 illustrations, 104 in colour. BIC Classification: AC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 177 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1196.
This groundbreaking study explores the deep connections between modern and premodern art, offering a radical reading that reveals the underlying patterns and ideas traversing centuries of artistic practice. Nagel reconsiders from an innovative double perspective some key issues in the history of art, from iconoclasm and illusionism to the status of painting, installation, and the museum as institution. He examines, among other topics, why the medieval workshop was of such importance to the Bauhaus; how the 4th-century Jerusalem Chapel in Rome was a proto-earthwork akin to the projects of Robert Smithson; and the relationship between medieval relics and Duchamp’s readymades. ... Read more
This groundbreaking study explores the deep connections between modern and premodern art, offering a radical reading that reveals the underlying patterns and ideas traversing centuries of artistic practice. Nagel reconsiders from an innovative double perspective some key issues in the history of art, from iconoclasm and illusionism to the status of painting, installation, and the museum as institution. He examines, among other topics, why the medieval workshop was of such importance to the Bauhaus; how the 4th-century Jerusalem Chapel in Rome was a proto-earthwork akin to the projects of Robert Smithson; and the relationship between medieval relics and Duchamp’s readymades. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
312
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780500238974
SKU
V9780500238974
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About Alexander Nagel
Alexander Nagel is Professor of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and a contributor to Cabinet, ARTNews, Artforum and other journals and magazines.
Reviews for Medieval Modern
'Brilliant, original and provocative' - Linda Nochlin 'Alexander Nagel reminds us, throughout the skilful weave of his argument, that there is much more medievalism in the art of the present, and much more contemporaneity in the art of the distant past, than we often realise' - Independent 'A wide-ranging bravura display of intellectual erudition and exemplary curiosity' - The Spectator ... Read more