Icma Books Viewpoints Ser.: Destroyed--Disappeared--Lost--Never Were by Aden Kumler (2022, Trade Paperback)

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Destroyed-disappeared-lost-never Were, Paperback by Fricke, Beate (EDT); Kumler, Aden (EDT), ISBN 0271093285, ISBN-13 9780271093284, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "A collection of essays by art historians on works of art, artifacts, and monuments that are no longer extant, have disappeared, or perhaps never existed outside of language. Addresses destruction, loss, obscurity, and existential uncertainty within the history of art and the study of historical material and visual cultures"--

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PublisherPennsylvania STATE University Press

ISBN-100271093285

ISBN-139780271093284

eBay Product ID (ePID)2335659962

Product Key Features

Number of Pages168 Pages

Publication NameDestroyed--Disappeared--Lost--Never Were

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2022

SubjectCriticism & Theory, General, History / Medieval, History / General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaArt

AuthorAden Kumler

SeriesIcma Books Viewpoints Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight8 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2021-061838

Reviews" Destroyed--Disappeared--Lost--Never Were makes a fresh contribution to the field, one that dexterously balances historical perspectives and theoretical awareness. Its short essays cover a variety of topics with a global reach but with a common concern: how the 'existential uncertainty' resulting from works that are no longer extant or may never have existed outside verbal evocations has shaped and continues to shape the practice of art history." --Brigitte Buettner, author of Boccaccio's "Des cleres et nobles femmes": Systems of Signification in an Illuminated Manuscript, " Destroyed--Disappeared--Lost--Never Were is the sort of scholarship that begins to fill the literal lacunae cautiously avoided by premodern art historians for so long, but perhaps no longer." --Elisa A. Foster caa.reviews, " Destroyed--Disappeared--Lost--Never Were is the sort of scholarship that begins to fill the literal lacunae cautiously avoided by premodern art historians for so long, but perhaps no longer." --Elisa A. Foster, caa.reviews, " Destroyed--Disappeared--Lost--Never Were makes a fresh contribution to the field, one that dexterously balances historical perspectives and theoretical awareness. Its short essays cover a variety of topics with a global reach but with a common concern: how the 'existential uncertainty' resulting from works that are no longer extant or may never have existed outside verbal evocations has shaped and continues to shape the practice of art history." --Brigitte Buettner,author of Boccaccio's "Des cleres et nobles femmes": Systems of Signification in an Illuminated Manuscript, "Destroyed-Disappeared-Lost-Never Were makes a fresh contribution to the field, one that dexterously balances historical perspectives and theoretical awareness. Its short essays cover a variety of topics with a global reach but with a common concern: how the 'existential uncertainty' resulting from works that are no longer extant or may never have existed outside verbal evocations has shaped and continues to shape the practice of art history." -Brigitte Buettner, author of Boccaccio's "Des cleres et nobles femmes": Systems of Signification in an Illuminated Manuscript "Both as a whole and as individual essays, the contents of Destroyed - Disappeared - Lost - Never Were contribute significantly to various urgent scholarly conversations in art history today. Highly original and written by experts in their respective fields, each of the book's chapters focus on serious lacunae in the medieval discipline, unpacking them in creative ways in relation to both primary and secondary materials. Between them, these exciting essays offer novel readings of previously untreated objects, important revisions to existing historical and theoretical narratives, and original critiques of received historiographies." -Jack Hartnell, author of Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages, "Both as a whole and as individual essays, the contents of Destroyed - Disappeared - Lost - Never Were contribute significantly to various urgent scholarly conversations in art history today. Highly original and written by experts in their respective fields, each of the book's chapters focus on serious lacunae in the medieval discipline, unpacking them in creative ways in relation to both primary and secondary materials. Between them, these exciting essays offer novel readings of previously untreated objects, important revisions to existing historical and theoretical narratives, and original critiques of received historiographies." --Jack Hartnell, author of Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages, "Both as a whole and as individual essays, the contents of Destroyed - Disappeared - Lost - Never Were contribute significantly to various urgent scholarly conversations in art history today. Highly original and written by experts in their respective fields, each of the book's chapters focus on serious lacunae in the medieval discipline, unpacking them in creative ways in relation to both primary and secondary materials. Between them, these exciting essays offer novel readings of previously untreated objects, important revisions to existing historical and theoretical narratives, and original critiques of received historiographies." --Jack Hartnell,author of Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal709

Table Of ContentList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Destroyed--Disappeared--Lost--Never Were Beate Fricke and Aden Kumler 1. Jerusalem's Local Sancta and Their Perishable Frames Michele Bacci 2. John Lloyd Stephens and the Lost Lintel of Kabah Claudia Brittenham 3. The Sanguine Art: Four Fragments Sonja Drimmer 4. The Dreamwork of Positivism: Archaeological Art History and the Imaginative Restoration of the Lost Jas Elsner 5. Finding Delight in Gardens Lost Danielle B. Joyner 6. Impermanence, Futurity, and Loss in Twelfth-Century Japan Kristopher W. Kersey 7. Lonely Bones: Relics sans Reliquaries Lena Liepe 8. The Manuscript Machine: Assemblages and Divisions in Jazari's Compendium Meekyung MacMurdie 9. Cave and Camera: Shades of Loss in the Library Cave of Dunhuang Michelle McCoy 10. Mourning the Loss of Works / Praising Their Absence: A Response Peter Geimer List of Contributors

SynopsisTo write about works that cannot be sensually perceived involves considerable strain. Absent the object, art historians must stretch their methods to, or even past, the breaking point. This concise volume addresses the problems inherent in studying medieval works of art, artifacts, and monuments that have disappeared, have been destroyed, or perhaps never existed in the first place. The contributors to this volume are confronted with the full expanse of what they cannot see, handle, or know. Connecting object histories, the anthropology of images, and historiography, they seek to understand how people have made sense of the past by examining objects, images, and architectural and urban spaces. Intersecting these approaches is a deep current of reflection upon the theorization of historical analysis and the ways in which the past is inscribed into layers of evidence that are only ever revealed in the historian's present tense. Highly original and theoretically sophisticated, this volume will stimulate debate among art historians about the critical practices used to confront the formative presence of destruction, loss, obscurity, and existential uncertainty within the history of art and the study of historical material and visual cultures. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume are Michele Bacci, Claudia Brittenham, Sonja Drimmer, Jas Elsner, Peter Geimer, Danielle B. Joyner, Kristopher W. Kersey, Lena Liepe, Meekyung MacMurdie, and Michelle McCoy., A collection of essays by art historians on works of art, artifacts, and monuments that are no longer extant, have disappeared, or perhaps never existed outside of language. Addresses destruction, loss, obscurity, and existential uncertainty within the history of art and the study of historical material and visual cultures.

LC Classification NumberN9100.D47 2022