Monumental Sounds : Art and Listening Before Dante
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| Title: | Monumental Sounds : Art and Listening Before Dante |
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| Description: | In Monumental Sounds, Matthew G. Shoaf examines interactions between sight and hearing in spectacular church decoration in Italy between 1260 and 1320. In this'age of vision,'authorities'concerns about whether and how worshipers listened to sacred speech spurred Giotto and other artists to reconfigure sacred stories to activate listening and ultimately bypass phenomenal experience for attitudes of inner receptivity. New naturalistic styles served that work, prompting viewers to give voice to depicted speech and guiding them toward spiritually fruitful auditory discipline. This study reimagines narrative pictures as site-specific extensions of a cultural system that made listening a meaningful practice. Close reading of religious texts, poetry, and art historiography augments Shoaf's novel approach to pictorial naturalism and art's multisensorial dimensions. This book has received the Weiss-Brown Publication Subvention Award from the Newberry Library. The award supports the publication of outstanding works of scholarship that cover European civilization before 1700 in the areas of music, theater, French or Italian literature, or cultural studies. |
| Authors: | Matthew G. Shoaf |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Christian art and symbolism--Italy--Medieval, 500-1500, Senses and sensation in art, Art, Gothic--Italy--Themes, motives, Senses and sensation--Religious aspects--Christianity, Narrative art, Italian--Themes, motives |
| Categories: | ART / History / General, ART / European / General, ART / Techniques / Painting / General, ART / Techniques / Painting / Watercolor, MUSIC / Religious / General, RELIGION / Christian Living / General, RELIGION / Inspirational, RELIGION / Christian Rituals & Practice / General, RELIGION / Spirituality |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | In Monumental Sounds, Matthew G. Shoaf examines interactions between sight and hearing in spectacular church decoration in Italy between 1260 and 1320. In this'age of vision,'authorities'concerns about whether and how worshipers listened to sacred speech spurred Giotto and other artists to reconfigure sacred stories to activate listening and ultimately bypass phenomenal experience for attitudes of inner receptivity. New naturalistic styles served that work, prompting viewers to give voice to depicted speech and guiding them toward spiritually fruitful auditory discipline. This study reimagines narrative pictures as site-specific extensions of a cultural system that made listening a meaningful practice. Close reading of religious texts, poetry, and art historiography augments Shoaf's novel approach to pictorial naturalism and art's multisensorial dimensions. This book has received the Weiss-Brown Publication Subvention Award from the Newberry Library. The award supports the publication of outstanding works of scholarship that cover European civilization before 1700 in the areas of music, theater, French or Italian literature, or cultural studies. |
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| ISBN: | 9789004415003 9789004460812 |
