Material (A Roundtable)
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Material Collective
Organizer Name
Joy Partridge, Alexa Sand
Organizer Affiliation
Graduate Center, CUNY, Utah State Univ.
Presider Name
Joy Partridge
Paper Title 1
Eating Medieval Art
Presenter 1 Name
Marian Bleeke
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Cleveland State Univ.
Paper Title 2
"And the light thereof was like to a precious stone": The Heavenly Jerusalem and the Erbach Panels
Presenter 2 Name
Lora Webb
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Stanford Univ.
Paper Title 3
Motifs as Immateriality in Cappadocian Painting
Presenter 3 Name
Alice Lynn McMichael
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Michigan State Univ.
Paper Title 4
The Sculptors of Souillac and the (Im)material Virgin
Presenter 4 Name
Jennifer Lyons
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Ithaca College
Paper Title 5
Plaster Casts and the Culture of the Copy
Presenter 5 Name
Julia Finch
Presenter 5 Affiliation
Morehead State Univ.
Start Date
11-5-2017 1:30 PM
Session Location
Sangren 1730
Description
Rarity and abundance, malleability and resilience, durability and ephemerality: such polarities governed how medieval artists and audiences experienced material culture, and continue to influence how medievalists today interact with the visible and tangible traces of the past. This session investigates the limits and possibilities of materiality as a way of thinking with and about the Middle Ages.
How did limitations on materials (precious metals, pigments, textiles) affect art production? How did medieval makers creatively respond to various limits of material realities (substitution, simulation,tromp l’oeil)? How were materialist sensibilities restricted or tempered in various medieval contexts and how did art negotiate or overcome these constraints? In terms of our modern interpretation, speakers might consider challenges to studying medieval materials, or how materialist approaches intersect or interfere with other kinds of analyses, and especially, how materialist approaches may push the boundaries of traditional art history.
Joy Partridge
Material (A Roundtable)
Sangren 1730
Rarity and abundance, malleability and resilience, durability and ephemerality: such polarities governed how medieval artists and audiences experienced material culture, and continue to influence how medievalists today interact with the visible and tangible traces of the past. This session investigates the limits and possibilities of materiality as a way of thinking with and about the Middle Ages.
How did limitations on materials (precious metals, pigments, textiles) affect art production? How did medieval makers creatively respond to various limits of material realities (substitution, simulation,tromp l’oeil)? How were materialist sensibilities restricted or tempered in various medieval contexts and how did art negotiate or overcome these constraints? In terms of our modern interpretation, speakers might consider challenges to studying medieval materials, or how materialist approaches intersect or interfere with other kinds of analyses, and especially, how materialist approaches may push the boundaries of traditional art history.
Joy Partridge