![]() ![]() It is a book that will broaden your idea of medieval art in an enjoyable way. This research scrutinises doodles in the margins of a medieval book, which suggest that children played an active part in its past. ‘This is an interesting book that will make the reader examine manuscripts and sculpture more carefully and understand the Middle Ages more comprehensively. It is a book that will broaden your idea of medieval art in an enjoyable way.’ - Yorkshire Gazette and Herald ‘ Image on the Edge remains an important and highly readable exploration of an intriguing corner of medieval culture with the power to open up a whole society and its mental worlds to modern readers in an exhilarating, thought-provoking, and original fashion.’ - Folklore and in this he will have made a valuable contribution.’ - Oxford Art Journal ‘Camille’s polymathic essays undoubtedly will provoke such studies and will expand the field of questions we ask. ‘If the study of medieval art is not to remain an esoteric and elitist discipline then more books like this must be written.’ - Burlington Magazine ‘a handsome, entertaining account of the peculiar fashion for grotesque, obscene and humorous presences on the margins of medieval illuminateed manuscripts.’ - Times Higher Education Camille brings us to an understanding of how marginality functioned in medieval culture and shows us just how scandalous, subversive and amazing the art of the time could be. Peasants, servants, prostitutes and beggars all found their place, along with knights and clerics, engaged in impudent antics in the margins of prayer-books or, as gargoyles, on the outsides of churches. I say marginal decoration are not marginal ornamentation or marginal illustration because this page is left blank, and the margins were used to host both purely ornamental motifs as well as graphical references to the main text. Medieval image-makers focused attention on the underside of society, the excluded and the ejected. ![]() What do they all mean – the lascivious ape, autophagic dragons, pot-bellied heads, harp-playing asses, arse-kissing priests and somersaulting jongleurs to be found protuding from the edges of medieval buildings and in the margins of illuminated manuscripts? Now available in a new hardback edition, Michael Camille's Image on the Edge explores that riotous realm of marginal art, so often explained away as mere decoration or zany doodles, where resistance to social constraints flourished. The Margins of Medieval Art Michael Camille Marginalia in Medieval Manuscripts Marginalia are illustrations or notations in the margins of manuscripts.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |