Images are not neutral conveyors of messages shipped around the globe to achieve globalized spectatorship. They are powerful forces that elicit very diverse responses and can resist new visual hegemonies of our global world. Bringing together case studies from the field of media…
Preliminary Material -- Bilder lügen -- Wahrheiten im Bild -- Drei maßgebliche bildtheoretische Ansätze -- Das Pikturale: Artefakte, Farbgebilde, Bilddinge -- Bildermachen -- Bildersehen: Opsis, Imagination, Intuition -- Bildraum -- Die Zeitlichkeit des Bildes: augenblickliche E…
Communal singing and reading of Latin texts formed the core of Christian ritual and occupied hours of the Benedictine monk?s day. These monks also illustrated the texts, and the full meaning of these images is often only revealed when analysed in concert with the oral and writte…
"The monks of Cîteaux produced some of the most beautiful and enigmatic manuscripts of the twelfth century. This book interprets their function and the meaning of their illuminations as a group for the first time using the monastery's newly reformed liturgy and the literary work…