03118oam 22005174a 450 991079565170332120230531225513.00-271-08784-610.1515/9780271089034(CKB)5590000000442610(OCoLC)1244618344(MdBmJHUP)muse97753(DE-B1597)585056(DE-B1597)9780271089034(MiAaPQ)EBC6530571(EXLCZ)99559000000044261020210403h20212021 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Absent ImageLacunae in Medieval Books /Elina GertsmanPenn State University Press1 online resource (1 online resource)0-271-08903-2 Intro -- COVER Front -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- introduction -- Notes to Introduction -- Chapter 1: Imaginary Realms -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2: Phantoms of Emptiness -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3: Traces of Touch -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4: Penetrating the Parchment -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexGuided by Aristotelian theories, medieval philosophers believed that nature abhors a vacuum. Medieval art, according to modern scholars, abhors the same. The notion of horror vacui—the fear of empty space—is thus often construed as a definitive feature of Gothic material culture. In The Absent Image, Elina Gertsman argues that Gothic art, in its attempts to grapple with the unrepresentability of the invisible, actively engages emptiness, voids, gaps, holes, and erasures.Exploring complex conversations among medieval philosophy, physics, mathematics, piety, and image-making, Gertsman considers the concept of nothingness in concert with the imaginary, revealing profoundly inventive approaches to emptiness in late medieval visual culture, from ingenious images of the world’s creation ex nihilo to figurations of absence as a replacement for the invisible forces of conception and death.Innovative and challenging, this book will find its primary audience with students and scholars of art, religion, physics, philosophy, and mathematics. It will be particularly welcomed by those interested in phenomenological and cross-disciplinary approaches to the visual culture of the later Middle Ages.Nothing (Philosophy) in artEmptiness (Philosophy) in artAbsence in artManuscripts, MedievalIllumination of books and manuscripts, MedievalNothing (Philosophy) in art.Emptiness (Philosophy) in art.Absence in art.Manuscripts, Medieval.Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.745.6/700902Gertsman Elina1518890MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910795651703321The Absent Image3756700UNINA