%0 Book
%A Antoni Ziemba
%A Jan Burzyński
%D 2021
%C Berlin, Germany
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 9783631841402
%T The Agency of Art Objects in Northern Europe, 1380–1520
%R 10.3726/b17833
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1114362
%X This monograph book offers a new interpretation of northern European art of the fifteenth century. The author presents it as a conglomerate of objects-things which act on the recipient in a specific – material and spatial – way. He analyzes macro-scale objects that impose movement on the viewer, and micro-scale objects that encourage manipulation. Inspired by the anti-anthropocentric concept of “returning to things” (B. Latour, A. Gell and others), the author searches for the “agency of things” in late-medieval art objects, which evoke specific liturgical, devotional, propaganda-political behaviors, or establish the status of social owner of the object that once co-created the network of material and spiritual culture. This methodologically innovative approach is part of the latest research in early art in Western Europe and the United States.
%K Netherlandish Painting, Middle Ages, German Sculpture, Medieval Printmaking, Medieval Bookmaking, medieval tapestries
%G English