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IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 1013: Crossing Boundaries: Object Networks and Visual Cultures

Wednesday 14 July 2010, 09.00-10.30

Organiser:Karen Eileen Overbey, Department of Art & Art History, Tufts University, Massachusetts
Moderator/Chair:Karen Eileen Overbey, Department of Art & Art History, Tufts University, Massachusetts
Paper 1013-aImitation, Accommodation, and Differentiation: From Late Roman Medallions to Scandinavian Early Medieval Pendants
(Language: English)
Nancy L. Wicker, Department of Art, University of Mississippi
Index terms: Art History - General, Art History - Decorative Arts, Gender Studies
Abstract

The emerging map of medieval art (and of its histories) is complex and interactive; its boundaries are permeable and its contours fluid. Objects moved between cultures in multiple exchanges that rupture hierarchies of 'center' and 'edge', 'East' and 'West', 'original' and 'copy'. The three papers in this session investigate the transmission, translation and transformation of objects across geographic and cultural borders. The landscape of the papers is expansive—Scandinavia, Anatolia, Byzantium, Rome, Persia, India, and China, from late antiquity to the 13th century—and so the session also aims to challenge traditional boundaries of field and of period.