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David Areford offers a synthetic historical narrative of early prints that stresses their unusual material nature, as well as their accessibility to a variety of viewers, both lay and monastic. This volume represents a shift in the study of the early printed image, one that mirrors the widespread movement in art history away from issues of production, style, and the artist toward issues of reception, function, and the viewer. Areford's approach is intensely grounded in the object, especially the unacknowledged material complexity of the print as a portable, malleable, and accessible image that depended on a response that was not only visual but often physical, emotional, and psychological. Recognizing that early prints were not primarily designed for aesthetic appreciation, the author analyzes how their meanings stemmed from specific functions involving private devotion, protection, indulgences, the cult of saints, pilgrimage, exorcism, the art of memory, and anti-Semitic propaganda.

Book history --- anno 1400-1499 --- Europe --- Prints, European --- Art and society --- Estampe européenne --- Art et société --- History --- Histoire --- Prints, European. --- 76 "14" --- 248.159 --- 7.046 --- 76 "15" --- Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--15e eeuw. Periode 1400-1499 --- Devoties:--algemeen --- Iconografie: mythologische-, religieuze-, epische voorstellingen. Legenden --- Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--16e eeuw. Periode 1500-1599 --- 76 "15" Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--16e eeuw. Periode 1500-1599 --- 7.046 Iconografie: mythologische-, religieuze-, epische voorstellingen. Legenden --- 248.159 Devoties:--algemeen --- 76 "14" Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--15e eeuw. Periode 1400-1499 --- Estampe européenne --- Art et société --- European prints --- Art --- Art and sociology --- Society and art --- Sociology and art --- Social aspects --- Art and society - Europe - History - To 1500