Main entry:

Reading Gothic Architecture Conference (2005 : East Sussex, England)

Title & Author:

Reading Gothic architecture / [edited by] Matthew M. Reeve.

Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2008]
©2008

Description:

vii, 160 pages : illustrations, plans ; 28 cm

Series:

Studies in the visual cultures of the Middle Ages ; vol. 1

Notes:
Papers from a conference held at the International Study Centre of Queen's University, Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex, England, June 2005.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : reading Gothic architecture / Matthew M. Reeve -- Medieval modernism and the origins of Gothic / Eric Fernie -- Screening, sculpture, and the structuring of viewer experience in thriteenth-century Mainz / Kathryn Brush -- Late Gothic architecture and vision : re-presentation, scenography, and illusionism / Linda Neagley -- Architectural drafting and the 'Gothicization' of the Gothic cathedral / James Bugslag -- The integration of architecture, imagery, and ornament in English West Country Gothic architecture, 1170-1250 / Malcolm Thurlby -- A rose by any other name : the 'not Gothic enough' architecture of Italy (again) / Caroline Bruzelius -- Liguid Gothic : uses of stucco in southern Italy / Jill Caskey -- Revivalist tendencies in the Irish late Gothic : defining a national identity? / Rachel Moss -- Architectural wit : playfulness and deconstruction in the Gothic of the sixteenth century / Ethan Matt Kavaler -- Reading Gothic in the English Renaissance / Christy Anderson.

Summary:

"The Gothic style is now one of the supreme products of Medieval and Renaissance visual culture. Subject to multiple readings and (re)interpretations from ca. 1500 to the present, Gothic stands as one of two dominant languages of European historical architecture. This volume explores methods of reading and interpreting the Gothic from the twelfth through the sixteenth century. Following the editor's introduction, it contains ten essays written by leading scholars from Canada, the United States, and Great Britain. In challenging the traditional parameters of Gothic, the papers explore 'Medieval' and 'Renaissance' manifestations of the Gothic, and they consider material ranging geographically from Ireland to Poland, and from Paris to Sicily. Each paper explores ways in which Gothic was or could be read by the contemporary viewers for which it was designed, and by post-modern commentators. In placing the act of reading at the centre of their investigations, the papers offer significant new insights into the forms and meanings of the Gothic."--Jacket

Resources:
Table of contents
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ISBN:

9782503525365
2503525369
9782503538839
2503538835

Subject:

Europa
Architecture, Gothic Congresses.
Church architecture Europe History Congresses.
Church buildings Europe History Congresses.
Architecture gothique Congrès.
Architecture chrétienne Europe Histoire Congrès.
Church buildings
Church architecture
Architecture, Gothic
Architektur
Gotik
Sakralbau
Stuckplastik
Bouwkunst.
Gotiek.
Europe
Italien Süd
Kongress

Form/genre:

Kongress Herstmonceux 2005.
Conference papers (document genres)
proceedings (reports)
History
Conference papers and proceedings
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Reeve, Matthew M., editor.
Bader International Study Centre, host institution.
Studies in the visual cultures of the Middle Ages ; v. 1.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 301998
Call No.: BIB 248208
Status: Available