EUR  â¬136.10EUR  â¬129.00 excl. VAT
Editor:
The contributions to this volume analyse material and visual effects that are artistically produced in different, often seemingly 'poorer' media. As an alternative to the notions of mimesis and imitation, this volume uses the term 'evocationâ, a concept that avoids the interpretation of lifelike mimesis as representational goal and instead values specific and intrinsic dynamisms that afford objects and materials to assume aesthetic presence. The individual chapters show how distinct cross-media perspectives, such as media permeability, semantic openness, and aesthetic blurring, are consciously employed as media-specific strengths that can transcend the boundaries between materials, crafts, and genres, thus allowing medieval makers to create a unique aesthetic of presence.
The texts collected here are the result of a series of on-site workshops and have benefited from the intensive dialogue between art historians, curators, conservators, and restorers in the context of the Research Network Presence and Evocation. Fictitious Materials and Techniques in the Early and High Middle Ages which ran between 2017 and 2020 and was financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft â project number 338069669
The texts collected here are the result of a series of on-site workshops and have benefited from the intensive dialogue between art historians, curators, conservators, and restorers in the context of the Research Network Presence and Evocation. Fictitious Materials and Techniques in the Early and High Middle Ages which ran between 2017 and 2020 and was financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft â project number 338069669
Britta Dümpelmann, Dr. phil. (2013), has been a research assistant at Freie Universität Berlin since 2014. She has published on media transfer, material mimesis and fictitiousness in early modern sculpture and graphic arts. She led the DFG network from which this volume emerged and is currently working on her second monograph.
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Visual structure of the book
1 Crafting presence: Material evocations 300â1300; Or, the potentials of aesthetic blurring, medial permeability, and semantic openness in medieval works of art
Britta Dümpelmann
2 Memory, renewal, authority: The evangelist âsymphonyâ of the Rossano Gospels
Wolf-Dietrich Löhr
3 Like a fish in water: Materiality and liveliness in a serpentine dish from the church treasury of Saint-Denis
Kristin Böse
4 Raganaldus and the rhetorics of medium
Beatrice Kitzinger
5 âLudusâ and âiocusâ: Play and joking as a category of medial uncertainty in sixth-century source texts
Wolf-Dietrich Löhr
6 Godesscalcâs Colophon
Beatrice Kitzinger
7 Similitudo, material evocations, and material effects in the Precious Gospels of Bernward of Hildesheim
Doris Oltrogge
8 Parchment â purple â silk: Evocations of materials in the Theophanu Charter
Bruno Reudenbach
9 The painting techniques used on the Theophanu Charter
Doris Oltrogge and Robert Fuchs
10 Gold, silk, and pearls: The materials and techniques of gold embroidered robes
Tanja Kohwagner-Nikolai
11 Tiles, stucco, and wonder in medieval Anatolia
Patricia Blessing
12 Glass: The art of men and fire
Henrike Haug
13 Deceiving and being deceived: William of Tyre on a âvery green glass vesselâ
Rebecca Müller
14 Neither true nor false: Materials and meanings of medieval glass gems
Rebecca Müller
15 Tree sap, gemstone, electrum? On terminology, multisensorial perception, and the use of amber in the Early and High Middle Ages
Joanna Olchawa
16 The Ringelheim Crucifix. Polychromed wooden sculpture as a medium for depicting the incarnate deity
Gerhard Lutz
Index
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Visual structure of the book
1 Crafting presence: Material evocations 300â1300; Or, the potentials of aesthetic blurring, medial permeability, and semantic openness in medieval works of art
Britta Dümpelmann
2 Memory, renewal, authority: The evangelist âsymphonyâ of the Rossano Gospels
Wolf-Dietrich Löhr
3 Like a fish in water: Materiality and liveliness in a serpentine dish from the church treasury of Saint-Denis
Kristin Böse
4 Raganaldus and the rhetorics of medium
Beatrice Kitzinger
5 âLudusâ and âiocusâ: Play and joking as a category of medial uncertainty in sixth-century source texts
Wolf-Dietrich Löhr
6 Godesscalcâs Colophon
Beatrice Kitzinger
7 Similitudo, material evocations, and material effects in the Precious Gospels of Bernward of Hildesheim
Doris Oltrogge
8 Parchment â purple â silk: Evocations of materials in the Theophanu Charter
Bruno Reudenbach
9 The painting techniques used on the Theophanu Charter
Doris Oltrogge and Robert Fuchs
10 Gold, silk, and pearls: The materials and techniques of gold embroidered robes
Tanja Kohwagner-Nikolai
11 Tiles, stucco, and wonder in medieval Anatolia
Patricia Blessing
12 Glass: The art of men and fire
Henrike Haug
13 Deceiving and being deceived: William of Tyre on a âvery green glass vesselâ
Rebecca Müller
14 Neither true nor false: Materials and meanings of medieval glass gems
Rebecca Müller
15 Tree sap, gemstone, electrum? On terminology, multisensorial perception, and the use of amber in the Early and High Middle Ages
Joanna Olchawa
16 The Ringelheim Crucifix. Polychromed wooden sculpture as a medium for depicting the incarnate deity
Gerhard Lutz
Index
Scholars, specialists, and students in (medieval) art history and history, media and material studies. Restorers, curators, research institutes, restaurateurs. Keywords: material mimesis and imitation in medieval art, material studies in medieval art, crafts and techniques in medieval art, substitutes and fakes in medieval art, illusions and allusions in medieval art, fictitiousness in medieval art, skeumorphs in medieval art, the medieval concept of similitudo, gold embroidery, medieval book illumination, medieval glass gems, medieval jewellery, stucco in medieval Anatolia, amber, rock crystal, purple and porphyry, Imperial Robes of Bamberg, Rossano gospels, Vienna Dioskurides, Raganaldus Sacramentary, Godescalc gospels, Precious Gospels of Bernward of Hildesheim, Theophanu charter, Derrynaflan Chalice, serpentine dish from the church treasury of Saint-Denis, Sacro Catino, Ringelheim crucifix