IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 1617: Medieval Spectacle: Art and Performance in the Middle Ages
Thursday 14 July 2011, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | International Center of Medieval Art |
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| Organiser: | Assaf Pinkus, Department of Art History, Tel Aviv University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Assaf Pinkus, Department of Art History, Tel Aviv University |
| Paper 1617-a | Generative Spectacles: Alterity, Rupture, and the Uncanny (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Performance Arts - General, Religious Life |
| Paper 1617-b | Books on Stage: The Performance of Treasury Bindings (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Performance Arts - General, Religious Life |
| Paper 1617-c | Medieval Simulacra: From Naumburg to Disney (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Sculpture, Liturgy, Performance Arts - General |
| Abstract | Studying art from reproductions has distorted our understanding of the medieval spectacle, and its spatial, immediate, and communicative qualities. Whether in mosaics, stones, murals, stained glass, or other media, multi-figured spectacles functioned as elaborate setting in which sacred history was dramatically enacted before the collective gaze. The rich theoretical framework that has opened up in the last decades, however, has tended to fragmentize such spectacles. Being at the fall of the 'pictorial turn', this session seeks to reintegrate the fragmentized views of medieval art into a coherent whole - namely, the medieval spectacle: art, space, performance, movement, and involved spectatorship. |