Making Meaning: Technologies of Transformative Production and Creative Consumption II: Manufacture of Meaning
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Special Session
Organizer Name
Eric Ramirez-Weaver, Christopher Lakey
Organizer Affiliation
Univ. of Virginia, Johns Hopkins Univ./Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Presider Name
Eric Ramirez-Weaver
Paper Title 1
Disciplining Idols: Art History and the Story of Daniel in Illuminated Weltchroniken
Presenter 1 Name
Nina Rowe
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Fordham Univ.
Paper Title 2
Mendicant Architecture between Style and Experience
Presenter 2 Name
Erik Gustafson
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Institute of Fine Arts, New York Univ.
Paper Title 3
The Regensburg Astrolabe and the Formation of the Gazing Community
Presenter 3 Name
Ittai Weinryb
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Bard Graduate Center
Start Date
9-5-2014 3:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 2345
Description
It is considered somewhat axiomatic that medieval objects, manuscripts, and great churches provide crafted confessions of belief and desire. Rather than privileging the alleged intellectual motivations of the manufacturer, however, in this session papers are sought which interrogate the role of the object or monument in cultural history. In particular, papers which address the interconnected nexus of ties which link great churches to their communities, pilgrims to their objects of veneration, artisans to their techniques, families to their dynastic nobility or medieval towns, or artists to guilds and changing modalities of artistic production are sought. Papers are welcome which examine the creative opportunity of the work of art or architecture to participate in or regulate the evolution of viable modalities of creative expression, establishing the parergonal parameters for subsequent semantic investigation.
Eric Ramirez-Weaver
Making Meaning: Technologies of Transformative Production and Creative Consumption II: Manufacture of Meaning
Schneider 2345
It is considered somewhat axiomatic that medieval objects, manuscripts, and great churches provide crafted confessions of belief and desire. Rather than privileging the alleged intellectual motivations of the manufacturer, however, in this session papers are sought which interrogate the role of the object or monument in cultural history. In particular, papers which address the interconnected nexus of ties which link great churches to their communities, pilgrims to their objects of veneration, artisans to their techniques, families to their dynastic nobility or medieval towns, or artists to guilds and changing modalities of artistic production are sought. Papers are welcome which examine the creative opportunity of the work of art or architecture to participate in or regulate the evolution of viable modalities of creative expression, establishing the parergonal parameters for subsequent semantic investigation.
Eric Ramirez-Weaver