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Images in the Margins by Margot Nishimura (2009, Hardcover)

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Images in the Margins, Hardcover by Nishimura, Margot Mcilwain, ISBN 0892369825, ISBN-13 9780892369829, Brand New, Free shipping in the US One of a series of well-produced popular books showcasing the riches of the Getty's collections, this delightful volume presents close-ups of the fools, monkeys, hunters, birds, beasts, fish, and monsters that populate the margins of some of their illuminated manuscripts. Nishimura (medieval art, Rhode Island School of Design) provides the text and captions. There is a list of references, but no index. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()

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Product Identifiers

PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100892369825

ISBN-139780892369829

eBay Product ID (ePID)73630834

Product Key Features

Book TitleImages in the Margins

Number of Pages96 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2009

TopicCollections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, History / Medieval, Graphic Arts / Illustration, History / Renaissance

IllustratorYes

GenreDesign, Art

AuthorMargot Nishimura

Book SeriesMedieval Imagination Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight16 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2009-013998

Dewey Edition22

Reviews "Strikes the perfect tone, focusing in each instance on the role of marginalia within its manuscript."-- Comitatus, "The reproductions are intricate and lovely puzzles for the grown-up eyeball/mind, so beauteously high-colored and attractive that it is hard to stop looking."-- Lincoln County News (Damariscotta, Maine), "One of a series of well-produced books that showcases the riches of the Getty's collections."-- Reference and Research Book News, "Strikes the perfect tone, focusing in each instance on the role of marginalia within its manuscript."-- Comitatus, "One of a series of well-produced books that showcases the riches of the Getty's collections."-- Reference and Research Book News

Dewey Decimal745.6/7

SynopsisThrough enlarged, full-color details and a lively narrative, this volume brings these intimately scaled, fascinating images to a wider audience. Images in the Margins is the third in the popular Medieval Imagination series of small, affordable books drawing on manuscript illumination in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the British Library. Each volume focuses on a particular theme and provides an accessible, delightful introduction to the imagination of the medieval world. An astonishing mix of mundane, playful, absurd, and monstrous beings are found in the borders of English, French, and Italian manuscripts from the Gothic era. Unpredictable, topical, often irreverent, like the New Yorker cartoons of today, marginalia--images drawn in the margins of manuscripts--were a source of satire, serious social observation, and amusement for medieval readers., Images in the Margins is the third in the popular Medieval Imagination series of small, affordable books drawing on manuscript illumination in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the British Library. Each volume focuses on a particular theme and provides an accessible, delightful introduction to the imagination of the medieval world. An astonishing mix of mundane, playful, absurd, and monstrous beings are found in the borders of English, French, and Italian manuscripts from the Gothic era. Unpredictable, topical, often irreverent, like the New Yorker cartoons of today, marginalia--images drawn in the margins of manuscripts--were a source of satire, serious social observation, and amusement for medieval readers. Through enlarged, full-color details and a lively narrative, this volume brings these intimately scaled, fascinating images to a wider audience.

LC Classification NumberND3343.4.M38 2009