GOTHIC WONDER

In this wide-ranging, eloquent book, Paul Binski sheds new light on one of the greatest periods of English art and architecture, off ering ground-breaking arguments about the role of invention and the powers of Gothic art. His richly documented study locates what became known as the Decorated Style within patterns of commissioning, designing, and imagining whose origins lay in pre-Gothic art. By examining notions of what was extraordinary, re-evaluating medieval ideas of authorship, and restoring economic considerations t o the deba...[Read more]