Images in the Margins
- ISBN-10
- 0892369825
- ISBN-13
- 9780892369829
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 96
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Getty Publications
- Author
- Margot McIlwain Nishimura
Description
Images in the Margins is the third in the popular Medieval Imagination series of small, affordable books drawing on manuscript illumination in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the British Library. Each volume focuses on a particular theme and provides an accessible, delightful introduction to the imagination of the medieval world. An astonishing mix of mundane, playful, absurd, and monstrous beings are found in the borders of English, French, and Italian manuscripts from the Gothic era. Unpredictable, topical, often irreverent, like the New Yorker cartoons of today, marginalia were a source of satire, serious social observation, and amusement for medieval readers. Through enlarged, full-color details and a lively narrative, this volume brings these intimately scaled, fascinating images to a wider audience. It accompanies an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from September 1 through November 8, 2009.
Get the book
Similar books
-
Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art
By Michael CamilleViewing marginalia in their proper social and cultural context, Camille reveals scandalous and subversive aspects, as well as apparently paradoxical stabilizing functions.
-
Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art
By Michael CamilleAnderson 1977, and Weir and ]erman 1986. 97 Constable 1978, p. 208. 98 Brown 1988, p. 42299 Gerald of Wales 1979, p. 178. For magic see Lowenthal 1978. 100 Brandenburg 1989. 101 Abou-El-Haj 1988. 102 Cited in Randall 1966, p. 5.
-
Moving Images on the Margins: Experimental Film in Late Socialist East Germany
By Seth HowesDocuments the rich allusiveness and intellectual probity of experimental filmmaking-a form that thrived despite having been officially banned-in East German socialism's final years.
-
Images at the Margins: A Collection of Kuo Pao Kun's Plays
By Pao Kun KuoImages at the Margins: A Collection of Kuo Pao Kun's Plays
-
Images in the Margins of Gothic Manuscripts
By Lilian M. C. RandallThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.
-
Magic in the Margins: A Medieval Tale of Bookmaking
By W. Nikola-LisaA young apprentice learns to tap his own wellspring of creativity with the help of the magical margins of an illuminated manuscript in this story about patience, talent, and imagination. Full color.
-
Meet Me in the Margins
By Melissa FergusonYou’ve Got Mail meets The Proposal—this romance is one for the books.
-
Finding Europe: Discourses on Margins, Communities, Images
By Anthony Molho, Diogo Ramada CurtoThis volume offers new approaches that integrate the long temporal dimension of the values-based approach, albeit devoid of its teleological element, with the “constructivist” interpretation.
-
Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives
By Richard SwensonMargin is the space that once existed between ourselves and our limits. Today we use margin just to get by. This book is for anyone who yearns for relief from the pressure of overload.
-
The Medieval Imagination: Illuminated Manuscripts from Cambridge, Australia and New Zealand
By State Library of VictoriaThis Catalogue records an exhibition of illuminated manuscripts drawn from collections in Cambridge, Australia and New Zealand and presented by the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, from March-June 2008.