Destroyed—Disappeared—Lost—Never Were

Published by Penn State University Press 2022

Destroyed—Disappeared—Lost—Never Were

Edited by: Beate Fricke and Aden Kumler

In the series ICMA Books | Viewpoints

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271093758

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About this book

To write about works that cannot be sensually perceived involves considerable strain. Absent the object, art historians must stretch their methods to, or even past, the breaking point. This concise volume addresses the problems inherent in studying medieval works of art, artifacts, and monuments that have disappeared, have been destroyed, or perhaps never existed in the first place.

The contributors to this volume are confronted with the full expanse of what they cannot see, handle, or know. Connecting object histories, the anthropology of images, and historiography, they seek to understand how people have made sense of the past by examining objects, images, and architectural and urban spaces. Intersecting these approaches is a deep current of reflection upon the theorization of historical analysis and the ways in which the past is inscribed into layers of evidence that are only ever revealed in the historian’s present tense.

Highly original and theoretically sophisticated, this volume will stimulate debate among art historians about the critical practices used to confront the formative presence of destruction, loss, obscurity, and existential uncertainty within the history of art and the study of historical material and visual cultures.

In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume are Michele Bacci, Claudia Brittenham, Sonja Drimmer, Jaś Elsner, Peter Geimer, Danielle B. Joyner, Kristopher W. Kersey, Lena Liepe, Meekyung MacMurdie, and Michelle McCoy.

Author / Editor information

Fricke Beate :

Beate Fricke is Professor of History of Art at the University of Bern. She is the author of Fallen Idols, Risen Saints: Saint Foy of Conques and the Revival of Monumental Sculpture in Medieval Art and coeditor of The Public in the Picture: Involving the Beholder in Antique, Islamic, Byzantine, and Western Medieval and Renaissance Art.Kumler Aden :

Aden Kumler is Professor of Art History at the University of Basel. She is the author of Translating Truth: Ambitious Images and Religious Knowledge in Late Medieval France and England.

Beate Fricke is Professor of History of Art at the University of Bern. She is the author of Fallen Idols, Risen Saints: Saint Foy of Conques and the Revival of Monumental Sculpture in Medieval Art and coeditor of The Public in the Picture: Involving the Beholder in Antique, Islamic, Byzantine, and Western Medieval and Renaissance Art.

Aden Kumler is Professor of Art History at the University of Basel. She is the author of Translating Truth: Ambitious Images and Religious Knowledge in Late Medieval France and England.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Destroyed—Disappeared— Lost—Never Were Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 Jerusalem’s Loca Sancta and Their Perishable Frames Michele Bacci Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
Chapter 2 John Lloyd Stephens and the Lost Lintel of Kabah Claudia Brittenham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
Chapter 3 The Sanguine Art: Four Fragments Sonja Drimmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Chapter 4 The Dreamwork of Positivism: Archaeological Art History and the Imaginative Restoration of the Lost Jaś Elsner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Chapter 5 Finding Delight in Gardens Lost Danielle B. Joyner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Chapter 6 Impermanence, Futurity, and Loss in Twelfth-Century Japan Kristopher W. Kersey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Chapter 7 Lonely Bones: Relics sans Reliquaries Lena Liepe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
Chapter 8 The Manuscript Machine: Assemblages and Divisions in Jazarī’s Compendium Meekyung MacMurdie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Chapter 9 Cave and Camera: Shades of Loss in the Library Cave of Dunhuang Michelle McCoy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Chapter 10 Mourning the Loss of Works / Praising Their Absence: A Response Peter Geimer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153

Language: English
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Pages
- Main content: 168
Illustrations
- Images: 19
Keywords: Medieval Art; Islamic Art; Art of the Americas; Chinese Art; Japanese Art; Objects; Memory; Oblivion

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Published: May 20, 2022
ISBN: 9780271093758