Description |
xxxii, 407 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
Series |
Cambridge new art history and criticism |
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Cambridge new art history and criticism.
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Contents |
Introduction : fallen idols -- Part One : the gothic anti-image. 1. Idols and originals -- Fallen fabrication : making images -- Fallen faith : making gods -- Fallen angels : demonic images -- 2. Idols of the pagans -- The fallen city : Mirabilia Urbis Ramae -- The fallen body : naked idols -- Deformations of Diana as a gothic goddess -- Saints and simulacra -- 3. Idols of the Saracens -- Icon versus idol in the Jeu de Saint Nicolas -- Holy places and pictures in crusader propaganda -- The idol of Muhammad in chronicle, epic, and romance -- 4. Idols of the Jews -- The second commandment and the image-jealous god -- Church versus synagogue : disputing images -- The Jew as image, iconoclast, and idolater -- Part Two : Gothic idols. 5. Idols in the church -- THe image on the column -- Latria or idolatria : Christian theories of sacred figuration -- Virgin or Venus? : the gothic goddess comes to life -- 6. Idols in society -- Art and the marvelous : magicians and automata -- Nummus : the god of gold -- Templars, talking heads, and an idolatrous pope -- Statues and Statutes : allegorical idols and the body politic -- 7. Idols in the mind -- Woman on a pedestal : courtly love -- Desire, death, and the image : the Pygmalion myth in medieval art -- Epilogue : idols as art -- The renaissance of the pagan idol -- The reformation of the Christian idol -- Idols of postmodernity |
Analysis |
Europe |
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Images (Visual arts) |
Notes |
1st pbk. ed.: Cambridge University Press, 1991 |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 353-398 |
Subject |
Christian art and symbolism -- Medieval, 500-1500.
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Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
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Computer networks -- United States.
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Electronic data processing departments -- Security measures.
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Idols and images -- Europe -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
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Image (Theology) -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
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Middle Ages.
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Author |
National Computer Security Center (U.S.)
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LC no. |
88011680 |
ISBN |
0521340403 |
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