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Destroyed—Disappeared—Lost—Never Were
To write about works that cannot be sensually perceived involves
considerable strain. Absent the object, art historians must stretch
their methods to, or even past, the breaking point. This concise
volume addresses the problems inherent in studying medieval works
of art, artifacts, and monuments that have disappeared, have been
destroyed, or perhaps never existed in the first place.
The contributors to this volume are confronted with the full
expanse of what they cannot see, handle, or know. Connecting object
histories, the anthropology of images, and historiography, they
seek to understand how people have made sense of the past by
examining objects, images, and architectural and urban spaces.
Intersecting these approaches is a deep current of reflection upon
the theorization of historical analysis and the ways in which the
past is inscribed into layers of evidence that are only ever
revealed in the historian's present tense.
Highly original and theoretically sophisticated, this volume
will stimulate debate among art historians about the critical
practices used to confront the formative presence of destruction,
loss, obscurity, and existential uncertainty within the history of
art and the study of historical material and visual cultures.
In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume are
Michele Bacci, Claudia Brittenham, Sonja Drimmer, Jaś Elsner, Peter
Geimer, Danielle B. Joyner, Kristopher W. Kersey, Lena Liepe,
Meekyung MacMurdie, and Michelle McCoy.
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