IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 533: Illuminating Borders, I: Immaterial/Material Borders
Tuesday 7 July 2020, 09.00-10.30
Organiser: | Andrea Worm, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz |
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Moderator/Chair: | Andrea Worm, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz |
Paper 533-a | Another Brick in the Wall: Borders Made of Stone in Late Medieval Book Illumination (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 533-b | Painting the Gutter in Early Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 533-c | The Mandorla as Space and Place (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Abstract | The first session in a set of four focuses on aspects of border and boundary in book illumination. Understanding both terms as concepts, the set provides insights in how artists made use of the border and elaborately dealt with liminal forms and places. Borders and boundaries are given/material realities in books as a page itself presents a limited area and as the beholder's view is limited to a double-page spread at once (Bawden). Also, borders within the images can mark transitory spaces between the material and the immaterial world, as is the case with the image of the mandorla (Wagner), with painted architecture functioning both as structuring framework and narrative device (Logemann). |