This important collection of essays represents a wide variety of new approaches to the deployment of images by historians. Methodological debates and historiographical concerns are explored by distinguished international scholars. Ground-breaking technological innovations in the last two decades of the twentieth century have led to the development of huge image databases, offering outstanding new opportunities for comparison, analysis and interrogation. This was apparent from the database demonstrations at the congress on 'History and Images' in Copenhagen in 1999, part of the University of Copenhagen's 'Visual Construction of Realities' research programme.
Several of the papers included here summarise recent research or disclose the potential of the new technologies for posing - and answering - novel types of question. A common concern of many contributors to this volume has been the reconfiguring of Art History to encompass areas which have often been viewed as marginal - geographically, physically or intellectually, for example. As each of the nineteen essays demonstrates, approaches to the employment and interpretation of the visual image by historians have been increasingly rendered obsolete or inappropriate by postmodern intellectual diversity and by the dramatic development of technology. The subtitle of the book ('Towards a New Iconology') reveals that a potent new dialogue between historian and image and between contemporary and historical constructions of reality, is in the process of construction.
Author(s): Axel Bolvig, Phillip Lindley (eds.)
Series: Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe, 5
Publisher: Brepols
Year: 2003
Language: English, French, German
Pages: 460
City: Turnhout
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgements xix
Photographic Acknowledgments xxi
Introduction xxiii
IMAGES AND HISTORY
Art and history: the legacy of Johan Huizinga / FRANCIS HASKELL 3
Images and the historian / JEAN-CLAUDE SCHMITT 19
Nostalgia for the real: the troubled relation of art history to visual culture / KEITH MOXEY 45
IMAGE DATABASES AND HISTORY
Pourquoi élaborer des bases de données d’image? Propositions pour une iconographie sérielle / JÉRÔME BASCHET 59
Image and word: systematic research into the relations between image and word in Dutch culture (1500-1800) / JÖRGEN VAN DEN BERG, HANS BRANDHORST, PETER VAN HUISSTEDE 107
Six St Jeromes: notes on the technology and uses of computer lighting simulations / SIMON NIEDENTHAL 131
The Lincoln CD-ROM Project: history, theory, conservation, and images / PHILLIP LINDLEY 139
Innovative hybride graphische Systeme zur Denkmalüberwachung und -verwaltung am Beispiel historischer Wandmalereien — Ein Erfahrungsbericht / ROLF-JÜRGEN GROTE, ANNETTE HORNSCHUCH 165
Cutting off the king’s head: images and the (dis)location of power / FRANK COLSON, JEAN COLSON, ROSS PARRY, ANDREW SAWYER 187
'Serra ex ferro' — 'Serra ex vitro': medieval history - computers - image messages reconsidered / GERHARD JARITZ 209
Quantitative image analysis: the Painter of wooden shoes / AXEL BOLVIG 229
IMAGES AS SOURCE MATERIAL
At the sign of the 'Spinning Sow': the 'other' Chartres and images of everyday life of the medieval street / MICHAEL CAMILLE 249
Les marges à drôleries des manuscrits gothiques: problèmes de méthode / JEAN WIRTH 277
'Primitive' paintings: the visual world of populus rusticus / HELENA EDGREN 301
Man and picture: on the function of wall paintings in medieval churches / ANNA NILSÉN 323
Representations of Jews in Danish medieval art — can images be used as source material on their own? / ULLA HAASTRUP 341
Anti-semitism, image desecration, and the problem of 'Jewish execution' / NORBERT SCHNITZLER 357
Framing history with salvation / SØREN KASPERSEN 379
On the epistemology of images / LENA LIEPE 415
