Buch

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Übersicht

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Verlag	:	Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York
Buchreihe	:	American University Studies (Bd. 20)
Sprache	:	Englisch
Erschienen	:	01. 04. 1997
Seiten	:	412
Einband	:	Gebunden
Höhe	:	230 mm
Breite	:	160 mm
Gewicht	:	740 g
ISBN	:	9780820422688
Sprache	:	Englisch

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Produktinformation

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How do images convey meaning? Traditional scholarship has treated iconography as a vocabulary of relatively fixed symbols. Symbolic Structures explores how composition, as a framing syntax, formally cues their specific meanings. Establishing its foundation in Italian Early Medieval and Byzantine images, this study examines paintings and relief sculptures from the twelfth century to the early fifteenth century in Italy to investigate the subtle role of composition as a symbolic system that permits images a wealth of expressive capabilities suited to the diverse needs of their times. In its analysis, this inquiry reveals the vital role of ambiguity in the succession from hierarchical composition to perspective in the Italian Late Medieval era.

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