THE LIVING THEATRE OF MEDIEVAL ART
Written by Henry Kraus
Published by Indiana University Press
in 1967
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- ART
- HISTORY (MEDIEVAL)
- SOCIAL HISTORY
THE LIVING THEATRE OF MEDIEVAL ART
Written by Henry Kraus.
Stock no. 1830488
1st.
1967.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
From the foreword: Whether working from a single monument to its ramifications in the relevant social context, or from major social themes to their documentation in works of art, he has traced the broad picture of living circumstances and problems in the Middle Ages, to create a vivid documentary picture of the period and its art. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine, blind title to front board. B/w illustrations. xxi and 248 pages. Small foxspots to top edge of text block. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is rubbed at corners, creased and worn to top rear edge.
Front cover
Contents
- FOREWORD BY HARRY BOBER
- PREFACE
- I The Eight Invisible Reliefs at Notre-Dame
- II The Social Factor
- III Eve and Mary: Conflicting Images of Medieval Woman
- IV The New Classes as Donors and as Subjects
- V The Popular Impact
- VI The Church Fights Heresy: With Flame, With Sword - and with Art
- VII Anti-Semitism in Medieval Art
- VIII Iconoclasm and Its Rationalizations
- IX The Medieval Artist and the Building Boom
- CHRONOLOGY
- LIST OF MONUMENTS
- NOTES
- INDEX