Stanford Department of Art and Art History’s Weintz Art Lecture Series presents “Amor vacui: Phantoms of Absence,” a lecture by Professor Elina Gertsman, Professor of Medieval Art and Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor in Catholic Studies II at Case Western Reserve University.
This talk explores several iterations of empty and emptied spaces in medieval manuscripts from a broad range of perspectives: as visual signs of figurative failure, as markers of absence, as sites of unrepresentability, and as vehicles for phenomenological and cognitive work on behalf of their viewers.
Online via Zoom. Please register in advance.
Elina Gertsman is Professor of Medieval Art and Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor in Catholic Studies II at Case Western Reserve University. She is the author of The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages: Image, Text, Performance (2010), which won the John Nicholas Brown Prize from the Medieval Academy of America, as well as Worlds Within: Opening the Medieval Shrine Madonna (2015), the winner of the inaugural Karen Gould Prize in Art History from the Medieval Academy. Worlds Within was also shortlisted for the Charles Rufus Morey Prize. Her most recent book, The Middle Ages in 50 Objects (2018), was co-authored with Barbara Rosenwein. Her work has been supported by the Guggenheim, Kress, Mellon, and Franco-American Cultural Exchange Foundations, as well as by the American Council for Learned Societies. Her two new books—The Absent Image: Lacunae in Medieval Books (Penn State Press) and a collection of essays Abstraction and Medieval Art: Beyond the Ornament (Amsterdam)—are forthcoming in 2021.
This lecture series is made possible by a generous grant from Fred Weintz and Rosemary Weintz
Sponsored by the Stanford Department of Art & Art History
When: Fri., Jun. 12, 2020 at 10:00 am
Stanford Department of Art and Art History’s Weintz Art Lecture Series presents “Amor vacui: Phantoms of Absence,” a lecture by Professor Elina Gertsman, Professor of Medieval Art and Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor in Catholic Studies II at Case Western Reserve University.
This talk explores several iterations of empty and emptied spaces in medieval manuscripts from a broad range of perspectives: as visual signs of figurative failure, as markers of absence, as sites of unrepresentability, and as vehicles for phenomenological and cognitive work on behalf of their viewers.
Online via Zoom. Please register in advance.
Elina Gertsman is Professor of Medieval Art and Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor in Catholic Studies II at Case Western Reserve University. She is the author of The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages: Image, Text, Performance (2010), which won the John Nicholas Brown Prize from the Medieval Academy of America, as well as Worlds Within: Opening the Medieval Shrine Madonna (2015), the winner of the inaugural Karen Gould Prize in Art History from the Medieval Academy. Worlds Within was also shortlisted for the Charles Rufus Morey Prize. Her most recent book, The Middle Ages in 50 Objects (2018), was co-authored with Barbara Rosenwein. Her work has been supported by the Guggenheim, Kress, Mellon, and Franco-American Cultural Exchange Foundations, as well as by the American Council for Learned Societies. Her two new books—The Absent Image: Lacunae in Medieval Books (Penn State Press) and a collection of essays Abstraction and Medieval Art: Beyond the Ornament (Amsterdam)—are forthcoming in 2021.
This lecture series is made possible by a generous grant from Fred Weintz and Rosemary Weintz
Sponsored by the Stanford Department of Art & Art History
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