Between Figure and Ground: Seeing in Premodernity

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Author: Saskia Quené (ed.)The terms “figure” and “ground” became fundamental to art-historical analysis over the course of the twentieth century. In this title, a series of essays call into question longstanding habits of seeing and understanding figure-ground relations, expand art-historical vocabularies, and challenge anachronistic attachments to modernist paradigms. Offering new approaches and methodological reflections from art history and theory, Bildwissenschaft, and art historiography.Contributors include Claudia Blümle, Gottfried Boehm, Péter Bokody, Beate Fricke, Bruno Haas, David Young Kim, Aden Kumler, Christopher Lakey, Karin Leonhard, Jürgen Müller, Veronica Peselmann, Christoph Poetsch, Raphael Rosenberg, Tom Steinert, Nicola Suthor, Noa Turel, and Saskia QuenéISBN 9783422801219. Deutscher Kunstverlag. pb. 646 pages. 170 colour ills. 20.5 x 14.5 cm.available Show more