IMC 2006: Sessions
Session 115: Gestures in Daily Life in the Middle Ages
Monday 10 July 2006, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Misericordia International |
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| Organiser: | Elaine C. Block, Misericordia International, Paris |
| Moderator/Chair: | Frédéric Billiet, UFR Musicologie, Université Paris IV - Sorbonne |
| Paper 115-a | Gestures Among Friend and Foe on Medieval Misericords (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Art History - Sculpture, Daily Life |
| Paper 115-b | The Vulgar Vernacular on Misericords (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Art History - Sculpture, Daily Life, Literacy and Orality |
| Paper 115-c | From Corbels to Misericords: Evolution of Iconography in Marginal Arts (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Sculpture, Daily Life |
| Abstract | Gesture and posture in medieval art have been extensively analyzed by Francois Garnier, but little or no attention is paid to gestures on misericords or other parts of choir stalls. This session will present the significance of gesture in these sculptures, and in the other marginal arts. Abstract paper -c: The corbels, a form of marginal art carved in stone or wood, share many common features with misericords. A selection of corbels from the Midi of France, romanesque or gothic, display a gallery of characters in attitudes such as tooth aches, mouths open with tongue sticking out, finger in nose, exhibition gestures, or hands holding some sort of a moon crescent. It will be shown that many images to be found later on misericords may derive from this iconography, whether it originates from medieval or from more ancient roots, transmitted though the ages by a slow evolution process. |