Format:
563 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Diagramme, Faksimiles
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29 cm
ISBN:
9780884024866
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0884024865
Series Statement:
Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine symposia and colloquia
Content:
"This is the first book that looks at medieval diagrams in a cross-cultural perspective, focusing on three regions - Byzantium, the Islamicate world, and the Latin West - each culturally diverse and each closely linked to the others through complex processes of intellectual, artistic, diplomatic, and mercantile exchange. The volume unites case studies, often of little-known material, by an international set of specialists, and is prefaced by four introductory essays that provide broad overviews of diagrammatic traditions in these regions in addition to considering the theoretical dimensions of diagramming. Among the historical disciplines whose use of diagrams is explored are philosophy, theology, mysticism, music, medicine, mathematics, astronomy, and cosmology. Despite the sheer variety, ingenuity, and visual inventiveness of diagrams from the premodern world, in conception and practical use they often share many similarities, both in construction and application. Diagrams prove to be an essential part of the fabric of premodern intellectual, scientific, religious, artistic, and artisanal life"--
Content:
"Long discredited as inadequate illustrations of thought processes more appropriately represented in algebraic or verbal terms, diagrams have enjoyed a renaissance across numerous disciplines--from philosophy and computer science to the burgeoning field of graphics--as a means of visualizing knowledge. As the historical disciplines take a fresh look at diagrams, this symposium will seek to offer an interdisciplinary, comparative, and cross-cultural perspective, considering the range of diagrams in Byzantium, Europe, and the Islamicate world. Its cross-cultural approach aims to decenter the bodies of scholarly work that focus on only one of these three traditions, within which it remains all too easy to take particular uses of diagrams for granted. Among the questions [the] symposium will pose are: Why are diagrams relatively sparse (and certainly understudied) in the Byzantine and Islamic worlds? Why are they rarely adopted as vehicles of religious thought? What role do diagrams play in the development and documentation of scientific thought across the three traditions? How does the diagrammatic mode relate to artistic practice? To cartography? To science? To literature? To the school curriculum? Why is so much of "Western" medieval art diagrammatic in character, but so little of Byzantine and Islamic art? How do attitudes toward diagrams change over time? And how do the three traditions interact with one another?"--Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Studies event email dated February 13, 2018
Note:
Enthält hauptsächlich Beiträge, die auf einer Konferenz gehalten worden sind, welche vom 20. bis 21. April 2018 in Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC stattgefunden hat
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"[...] conference [...] held at Dumbarton Oaks on April 20-21,2018." (Seite 1)
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Literaturangaben in Fußnoten
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Mit Registern
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Handschrift
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Diagramm
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Visuelle Kommunikation
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Geschichte Anfänge-1500
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Konferenzschrift
Author information:
Hamburger, Jeffrey F. 1957-
