La croisée des signes: l'écriture et les images médiévales (800-1200)

Writing is omnipresent in medieval images. This observation of evidence has fueled a whole section of medieval art research over the last thirty years, that of the study of the relations between text and image. The present work considers questions related to the prism of the co-presence of alphabeti...

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Main Author: Debiais, Vincent 1978- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:French
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Published: Paris Les Éditions du CERF [2017]
In:Year: 2017
Series/Journal:Cerf patrimoines
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Image / Text / History 500-1500
B Image / Text / History 800-1200
Further subjects:B Christian art and symbolism Medieval, 500-1500
B Christian art and symbolism
B To 1500
B Semiotics
B Semiotics and art
B History
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Summary:Writing is omnipresent in medieval images. This observation of evidence has fueled a whole section of medieval art research over the last thirty years, that of the study of the relations between text and image. The present work considers questions related to the prism of the co-presence of alphabetic and iconic signs within a single image, whether painted on plaster or on glass, carved in stone or metal, made of mosaic or textile. By analyzing the features of the inscription, its form, its location and its content, this study proposes to go beyond the observation of the omnipresence of writing in the image to interrogate the conditions and the effects of their encounters. Theological considerations and patristic reflections illuminate the intentions and conditions of the joint presence of the text and the image within the same visual construction. On this intellectual backdrop, a mechanics of meaning is established between image and letter, which goes beyond the strict functions of identification, commentary or gloss. The emergence of an increased significance of the image, or even of a new image, occurs in the friction of the text and the image, and writing becomes an integral part of the process of creation of the visual. From examples produced between 800 and 1200, this study puts into perspective the artistic and epigraphic practices with the theology of the image. It studies these objects which translate medieval reflection in the material on the respective capacities of writing and the image to symbolize the extent of the Creation and the history of the world
ISBN:2204115398