דימוי ועיטור בתרבות הספר היהודית בימי הביניים: הערות מתודולוגיות

Kogman-Appel, Katrin

Research article (journal)

Abstract

The three-way relationship between patrons, artists, and viewers poses some crucial methodological questions that have been repeatedly and intensely considered in the recent art historical discourse on illuminated manuscripts. If we are to decipher the meanings or explicit messages of images correctly, we ought to attend first to the question of who would have determined these meanings and messages and who would have designed the overall appearance of the images and their specific features. An artistic mind aware of the full potential of the impact the visual has on any given viewer’s perception, perhaps? Or a patron with a particular theological or political agenda? To whom would such messages have been addressed? Would the potential addressees only have been erudite viewers, or might they have been uneducated individuals as well? Art can function as an active message-bearer on the one hand or as a more passive reflector of social circumstances and cultural processes on the other. This paper discusses several cases in point and views them in light of recent methodological considerations in the field.

Details zur Publikation

Release year: 2023
Language in which the publication is written: Hebrew
Link to the full text: https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/humsos/goldstein-goren/Site Assets/Pages/Journal/Kogman-Appel.pdf