Enthüllen und Verbergen in der Vormoderne / Revealing and Concealing in the Premodern Period

Edited by Henriette Hofmann Edited by Barbara Schellewald Edited by Sophie Schweinfurth Edited by Gerald Wildgruber

Book cover: Enthüllen und Verbergen in der Vormoderne / Revealing and Concealing in the Premodern Period

Extent: 311 pages

Publisher: Brill | Fink

Subjects: Art & Art History

Series: Eikones

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(December 2021)

ISBN: 9783770562770

6.22 x 8.66 inches

Price: $87.00

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The dynamic of revealing/hiding characterizes both pre-modern pictorial practices and a peculiarity of pre-modern pictorial concepts, which derive from the tension between presence and withdrawal. For the first time, this volume presents interdisciplinary contributions from the field of pre-modernity with regard to the dynamics of unveiling/concealing, which are decisive for various pictorial phenomena, and thus presents different approaches that make the topic fruitful as a central moment for pre-modernity: for pictorial practices in their immediate social, religious, and historical contexts as well as for the conceptual-historical relevance of unveiling/concealing, which ultimately decides what is or can be an image in the respective cultural context.

  • Edited by Henriette Hofmann
  • Edited by Barbara Schellewald
  • Edited by Sophie Schweinfurth
  • Edited by Gerald Wildgruber