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Étiqueté : Art and Image Theory

Parution : Kamil Kopania, Henning Laugerud et Zuzanna Sarnecka (dir.), “The Living Image in the Middle Ages and Beyond”, Londres, Routledge, 2025

This edited volume discusses images that bleed, speak, cry, move and behave in ways we usually attribute to living creatures. Living images have been the object of devotion as well as targets of destruction, and they have been marginalised in both culture and cultural studies for their ambivalence, as well as their transgressive nature. But what is it that makes images the loci of such powerful properties? The present volume is an attempt to recuperate...

Parution : Michel Weemans, Stijn Bussels, Karl Enenkel et Elliott D. Wise, “Imago and Contemplatio in the Visual Arts and Literature (1400-1700)”, Leyde, Brill, 2024

This volume contains twenty-four essays, which, in their subjects and methodology, pay tribute to the scholarship of Walter S. Melion. The contributions are grouped under three categories: “Devotion”, “Art and Image Theory”, and “Vision and Contemplation”. The Devotion section addresses votive practices, theological theory and polemic literature. The Art and Image Theory section focuses on Jesuit image theory, the reflexive dimension of works, and artists’ reflections on the function of images. Finally, the Vision and...