"Excavating the Medieval Image argues that the illuminated image is best understood as thoroughly integrated in the material context of the manuscript - and thus, integrated in a cultural context of production and reception. Seen in this way, the illuminated manuscript becomes a…
Die Apokalypse des Johannes ist das rätselhafteste und bilderreichste Buch der Bibel. Sie beflügelte die Imagination vieler Künstler zwischen Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit. Dieser grossartig bebilderte Band erhellt Geschichte, Theologie und Bedeutung der Apokalypse. Der Bogen s…
This work explores how the aesthetics of the illustrated Victorian novel have evolved from caricatures to realism across the long nineteenth century.
Introduction: the arc of the Victorian illustrated book -- The Pickwick Papers and the rise of the serial -- Caricature: a theatrical development -- Realism, Victorian material culture, and the enduring caricature tradition -- Caricature and realism: fin-de-siecle developments o…
