IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 501: Acting Personifications and Aesthetic Reflection in Word and Image

Tuesday 6 July 2021, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:	Sonderforschungsbereich 1391 'Andere Ästhetik', Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
Organisers:	Sandra Linden, Sonderforschungsbereich 1391 'Andere Ästhetik' Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Daniela Wagner, Kunsthistorisches Institut Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Moderator/Chair:	Daniela Wagner, Kunsthistorisches Institut Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Paper 501-a	Human Relationships and Meaningful Acts: An Insight into Personifications in Medieval Art (Language: English) Katharina Bauer, Sonderforschungsbereich 1391 'Andere Ästhetik' Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Index terms: Art History - General, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Rhetoric
Paper 501-b	Speech Act: The Linguistic Activity of Medieval Personifications as Aesthetic Transgression (Language: English) Jan Stellmann, Sonderforschungsbereich 1391 'Andere Ästhetik' Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Rhetoric
Abstract	The session introduces a new interdisciplinary research group embedded in the Collaborative Research Centre 1391 'Different Aesthetics'. Dealing with the aesthetic potential of personifications and their actions in literature and visual art, the papers explore how the authors' and artists' reflections on representation and artistic elaboration become visible in personifications. Middle High German literary texts and visual representations from the High to Late Middle Ages will be in the focus of the session, which aims at contributing to an interdisciplinary perspective on personification.