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History as a Visual Art in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance
Karl F. Morrison
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Description for History as a Visual Art in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance
Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 292 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 18. Weight in Grams: 714.
Karl Morrison discusses historical writing at a turning point in European culture: the so-called Renaissance of the twelfth century. Why do texts considered at that time to be masterpieces seem now to be fragmentary and full of contradictions? Morrison maintains that the answer comes from ideas about art. Viewing histories as artifacts made according to the same aesthetic principles as paintings and theater, he shows that twelfth-century authors and audiences found unity not in what the reason read in a text but in what the imagination read into it: they prized visual over verbal imagination and employed a circular, or ... Read more
Karl Morrison discusses historical writing at a turning point in European culture: the so-called Renaissance of the twelfth century. Why do texts considered at that time to be masterpieces seem now to be fragmentary and full of contradictions? Morrison maintains that the answer comes from ideas about art. Viewing histories as artifacts made according to the same aesthetic principles as paintings and theater, he shows that twelfth-century authors and audiences found unity not in what the reason read in a text but in what the imagination read into it: they prized visual over verbal imagination and employed a circular, or ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Number of Pages
292
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691630793
SKU
V9780691630793
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