schema:name "The absent image"
schema:creator Gertsman, Elina
schema:author Gertsman, Elina
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geïllumineerde handschriften
gotiek (stijl)
kunstfilosofie
materiële cultuur
middeleeuwen
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schema:abstract "Explores the late medieval concepts of absence and void, with a special focus on the materiality of emptiness in later medieval manuscripts--Provided by publisher."@en
"Guided by Aristotelian theories, medieval philosophers believed that nature abhors a vacuum. Medieval art, according to modern scholars, abhors the same. The notion of horror vacui―the fear of empty space―is thus often construed as a definitive feature of Gothic material culture. In The Absent Image, Elina Gertsman argues that Gothic art, in its attempts to grapple with the unrepresentability of the invisible, actively engages emptiness, voids, gaps, holes, and erasures. Exploring complex conversations among medieval philosophy, physics, mathematics, piety, and image-making, Gertsman considers the concept of nothingness in concert with the imaginary, revealing profoundly inventive approaches to emptiness in late medieval visual culture, from ingenious images of the world’s creation ex nihilo to figurations of absence as a replacement for the invisible forces of conception and death. Innovative and challenging, this book will find its primary audience with students and scholars of art, religion, physics, philosophy, and mathematics. It will be particularly welcomed by those interested in phenomenological and cross-disciplinary approaches to the visual culture of the later Middle Ages--Provided by publisher."@en
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schema:workExample The absent image: lacunae in medieval books

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schema:text Nothing is the matter -- Imaginary realms -- Phantoms of emptiness -- Traces of touch -- Penetrating the parchment -- Absences.
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