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Destroyed--Disappeared--Lost--Never Were

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 tha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fricke, Beate
Otros Autores: Kumler, Aden
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022.
Colección:ICMA Books | Viewpoints Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Destroyed
  • Disappeared
  • Lost
  • Never Were
  • Chapter 1 Jerusalem's Loca Sancta and Their Perishable Frames
  • Chapter 2 John Lloyd Stephens and the Lost Lintel of Kabah
  • Chapter 3 The Sanguine Art: Four Fragments
  • Chapter 4 The Dreamwork of Positivism: Archaeological Art History and the Imaginative Restoration of the Lost
  • Chapter 5 Finding Delight in Gardens Lost
  • Chapter 6 Impermanence, Futurity, and Loss in Twelfth-Century Japan
  • Chapter 7 Lonely Bones: Relics sans Reliquaries
  • Chapter 8 The Manuscript Machine: Assemblages and Divisions in Jazarī's Compendium
  • Chapter 9 Cave and Camera: Shades of Loss in the Library Cave of Dunhuang
  • Chapter 10 Mourning the Loss of Works / Praising Their Absence: A Response
  • Contributors