TY  - BOOK
AU  - Antoni Ziemba
AU  - Jan Burzyński
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783631841402
TI  - The Agency of Art Objects in Northern Europe, 1380–1520
DO  - 10.3726/b17833
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1114362
N2  - 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.
KW  - Netherlandish Painting, Middle Ages, German Sculpture, Medieval Printmaking, Medieval Bookmaking, medieval tapestries
LA  - English
ER  -