Images on Edges I: Frames, Borders, Bodies
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Special Session
Organizer Name
Jacqueline E. Jung
Organizer Affiliation
Yale Univ.
Presider Name
Jacqueline E. Jung
Paper Title 1
Framing the Fragments: Images, Ekphrasis, Inscriptions on the Edges
Presenter 1 Name
Anne E. Lester
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. of Colorado-Boulder
Paper Title 2
The Matter in the Margins: Fourteenth-Century Reliquary Tabernacles
Presenter 2 Name
Beth Williamson
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. of Bristol
Paper Title 3
Transmission of Visual Knowledge in the Margins of MS Marciana, cod. gr. XI, 21 (coll. 453)
Presenter 3 Name
Andrew Griebeler
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Univ. of California-Berkeley
Paper Title 4
The Fistulous Thresholds of John Colyn's Body
Presenter 4 Name
Jack Hartnell
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Columbia Univ.
Start Date
14-5-2016 1:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 1120
Description
Twenty-four years after the publication of Michael Camille's book Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art, the question of boundaries is still very much present in our field. But in parallel with the turn toward globalization in art historical inquiry, many scholars' concerns lie less with parsing out the distinctions between center and periphery, as Camille and others had done, than with exploring moments of passage, permeability, and connectedness, whether physical or concepual. In that spirit, this double-session sought papers dealing with art in various media that accompanied, depicted, or otherwise thematized thresholds, marking sites of movement as meaningful for those who entered or exited. What has emerged is a set of new examinations on sculpted portals in and beyond the European canon, insights on the power of frames to shape the understanding of their contents, reflections on a manuscript's borders as the site for the movement of knowledge into mind, investigations of the body's most problematic borders, and considerations of viewers who move past the things they see.
Jacqueline E. Jung
Images on Edges I: Frames, Borders, Bodies
Schneider 1120
Twenty-four years after the publication of Michael Camille's book Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art, the question of boundaries is still very much present in our field. But in parallel with the turn toward globalization in art historical inquiry, many scholars' concerns lie less with parsing out the distinctions between center and periphery, as Camille and others had done, than with exploring moments of passage, permeability, and connectedness, whether physical or concepual. In that spirit, this double-session sought papers dealing with art in various media that accompanied, depicted, or otherwise thematized thresholds, marking sites of movement as meaningful for those who entered or exited. What has emerged is a set of new examinations on sculpted portals in and beyond the European canon, insights on the power of frames to shape the understanding of their contents, reflections on a manuscript's borders as the site for the movement of knowledge into mind, investigations of the body's most problematic borders, and considerations of viewers who move past the things they see.
Jacqueline E. Jung