TY - BOOK ID - 46325137 TI - Gothic sculpture PY - 2019 SN - 9780300241433 0300241437 PB - New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Sculpture, Gothic KW - Sculpture, Medieval KW - Church architecture KW - Sculpture gothique. KW - Architecture gothique KW - Christian art and symbolism KW - Church doorways KW - Themes, motives. KW - Gothic sculpture KW - Sculpture, Gothic - England KW - Church architecture - England KW - Church architecture - Europe UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46325137 AB - In this beautifully illustrated study, Paul Binski offers a new account of sculpture in England and northwestern Europe between c. 1000 and 1500, examining Romanesque and Gothic art as a form of persuasion. Binski applies rhetorical analysis to a wide variety of stone and wood sculpture from such places as Wells, Westminster, Compostela, Reims, Chartres, and Naumberg. He argues that medieval sculpture not only conveyed information but also created experiences for the subjects who formed its audience. Without rejecting the intellectual ambitions of Gothic art, Binski suggests that surface effects, ornament, color, variety, and discord served a variety of purposes. In a critique of recent affective and materialist accounts of sculpture and allied arts, he proposes that all materials are shaped by human intentionality and artifice, and have a "poetic." Exploring the imagery of growth, change, and decay, as well as the powers of fear and pleasure, Binski allows us to use the language and ideas of the Middle Ages in the close reading of artifacts ER -