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Art and Optics in the Hereford Map: An English Mappa Mundi, C. 1300
Contributor(s): Kupfer, Marcia (Author)

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 ISBN: 0300220332     ISBN-13: 9780300220339
Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre
OUR PRICE: $71.25  

Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: October 2016
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Reference | Atlases, Gazetteers & Maps (see Also Travel - Maps & Road Atlases)
- Art | History - Medieval
- History | Europe - Medieval
Dewey: 912
LCCN: 2015045049
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 8.9" W x 11.2" L (2.75 lbs) 240 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453)
- Cultural Region - British Isles
Review Citations: Choice 04/01/2017
 
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Publisher Description:
A single, monumental mappa mundi (world map), made around 1300 for Hereford Cathedral, survives intact from the Middle Ages. As Marcia Kupfer reveals in her arresting new study, this celebrated testament to medieval learning has long been profoundly misunderstood. Features of the colored and gilded map that baffle modern expectations are typically dismissed as the product of careless execution. Kupfer argues that they should rightly be seen as part of the map's encoded commentary on the nature of vision itself. Optical conceits and perspectival games formed part of the map's language of vision, were central to its commission, and shaped its display, formal design, and allegorical fabric. These discoveries compel a sweeping revision of the artwork's intellectual and art-historical genealogy, as well as its function and aesthetic significance, shedding new light on the impact of scientific discourses in late medieval art.
 
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