商品簡介
Although thresholds and liminality have been studied by scholars of medieval and seventeenth-century art, the role of thresholds in Netherlandish art of the late fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries -- this late medieval/early ’early modern’ period -- has been much less fully investigated. Thresholds, Boundaries and Liminality in Netherlandish Art (1385-1550) considers a wide range of media and formats, focusing on key case studies (Sluter's portal of the Chartreuse de Champmol and the calendar pages of the Limbourg Brothers' Très Riches Heures), and on important art forms (altarpieces and illuminated manuscripts). Lynn Jacobs examines how the visual thresholds established within Netherlandish paintings, sculptures, and manuscript illuminations become sites where artists could address relations between life and death, aristocrat and peasant, holy and profane, and man and God-and where artists could exploit the "betwixt and between" nature of the threshold to communicate, paradoxically, both connections and divisions between these different states and different worlds. Building on literary and anthropological interpretations of liminality, this book demonstrates how the exploration of boundaries in Netherlandish art served to infuse the works with greater meaning, and probes those meanings-often ignored in more traditional interpretations-engendered by these works' incorporation of the ’threshold motif.’
作者簡介
Lynn F. Jacobs is Professor of Art History at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA.
