Architecture and affect in the Middle Ages / Paul Binski.

Main entry:

Binski, Paul, author.

Title & Author:

Architecture and affect in the Middle Ages / Paul Binski.

Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024]

Description:

ix, 253 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm.

Series:

The Franklin D. Murphy lecture series

Notes:
"In association with the Spencer Museum of Art and Kress Foundation Department of Art History, the University of Kansas" -- title page.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Admiratio -- Tristitia-Laetitia -- Terror -- Sublimia -- Claritas, jucunditas, nobilitas -- Conclusion : spectacle, genre, and imitation.

Summary:

"How did people living in the Middle Ages respond to spectacular buildings, such as the Gothic cathedrals? While contemporary scholarship places a large emphasis on the emotional content of Western medieval figurative art, the emotion of architecture has largely gone undiscussed. In a radical new approach, Architecture and Affect in the Middle Ages explores the relationship between medieval buildings and the complexity of experience they engendered. Paul Binski examines long-standing misconceptions about the way viewers responded to medieval architecture across Western Europe and in Byzantine and Arabic culture between Late Antiquity and the end of the medieval period. He emphasizes the importance of the experience itself within these built environments, essentially places of action, space, and structure but also, crucially, of sound and emotion"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780520402997 hardcover
0520402995 hardcover
electronic book
9780520405561

Subject:

Architecture and society History.
Architecture, Medieval.
Architecture et société Histoire.
Architecture médiévale.
ARCHITECTURE / General.

Added entries:

University of Kansas Franklin D. Murphy lecture series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 320456
Call No.: 320456
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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