EXPERIENCING MEDIEVAL ART

Experiencing Medieval Art is an extensive revision and expansion of the author's Seeing Medieval Art, originally published in 2004. Renowned art historian Herbert L. Kessler considers often-strange objects and the materials of which they are made, circumstances of production, the conflictual relationship between art objects and notions of an ineffable deity, the context surrounding medieval ar t, the playfulness of art and the formal movements it engaged, as well as questions of apprehension, aesthetics, and modern presenta tion. Kes...[Read more]