IMC 2008: Sessions
Session 301: Conceptualising Objects: Presentation, Responses, and Display
Monday 7 July 2008, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | University of York |
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Organiser: | Jane Hawkes, Department of History of Art, University of York |
Moderator/Chair: | Jane Hawkes, Department of History of Art, University of York |
Paper 301-a | High Crosses Going Abroad: Plaster Casts at International Exhibitions (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Historiography - Medieval, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
Paper 301-b | The Book as 'Church' : The Illuminated Gospel Book as Conceptualized Space (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 301-c | Northumbrian Books of the Dead: Early Medieval Name Stones (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Biblical Studies |
Abstract | The emphasis of this session will be on the form and function of early medieval, especially Anglo-Saxon, material culture. All three papers build on the object-based themes of presentation, audience, and the act of contemplation. The papers are unified in their exploration of objects which take on alternative forms and additional meanings, for example the casts as cultural symbols, the manuscripts as 'Church' and sculpture as memorial. Broadly speaking, the session aspires to generate both an exchange of methodological ideas and to shed new light on the relationship between the form and function of early medieval objects. |