Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art by Camille, Michael

Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art

What do they all mean--the lascivious ape, autophagic dragons, potbellied heads, harp-playing asses, arse-kissing priests, and somersaulting...
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Author: Michael Camille
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Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art by Camille, Michael

Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art

BD$62.01

Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art

BD$62.01
Author: Michael Camille
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
What do they all mean--the lascivious ape, autophagic dragons, potbellied heads, harp-playing asses, arse-kissing priests, and somersaulting jongleurs to be found protruding from the edges of medieval buildings and in the margins of illuminated manuscripts? A groundbreaking, celebrated study of marginalia in mediaeval art, Michael Camille's Image on the Edge explores this riotous realm so often explained away as mere decoration or zany doodles, a place where resistance to social constraints flourished. Along with their loftier subjects of knights and clerics, medieval image-makers focused attention on the underside of society, the excluded and the ejected. Peasants, servants, prostitutes, and beggars all found their place in their artworks, engaged in impudent antics in the margins of prayer-books or, as gargoyles, on the outsides of churches. Camille's essays illuminate how marginality functioned in medieval culture, showing us just how scandalous, subversive, and amazing the art of the time could be.

Author: Michael Camille
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 07/10/2019
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.80w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781789140064

About the Author
Michael Camille (1958-2002) was professor of art history at the University of Chicago. He is the author of many books, including The Gothic Idol: Ideology and Image-Making in Medieval Art and Mirror in Parchment: The Luttrell Psalter and the Making of Medieval England, the latter also published by Reaktion Books.


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