Images on Edges II: Portals and Passages
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Special Session
Organizer Name
Jacqueline E. Jung
Organizer Affiliation
Yale Univ.
Presider Name
Jacqueline E. Jung
Paper Title 1
Images on the Edge: The Archivolts of Saint-Ours in Loches
Presenter 1 Name
Susan Leibacher Ward
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Rhode Island School of Design
Paper Title 2
The Vegetal Frame in French Church Design
Presenter 2 Name
Mailan S. Doquang
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Princeton Univ.
Paper Title 3
Puns and Portraits: Early Medieval Threshold Architecture in India
Presenter 3 Name
Deborah Stein
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Independent Scholar
Paper Title 4
Bystanding, Passing-by, and the Christian Vocational Image
Presenter 4 Name
Mitchell B. Merback
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Johns Hopkins Univ.
Start Date
14-5-2016 3:30 PM
Session Location
Fetzer 1010
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 conceptual. 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 II: Portals and Passages
Fetzer 1010
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 conceptual. 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