Title
Push Me, Pull You: Imaginative, Emotional, Physical, and Spatial Interaction in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art
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Description
Late Medieval and Renaissance art was surprisingly pushy; its architecture demanded that people move through it in prescribed patterns, its sculptures played elaborate games alternating between concealment and revelation, while its paintings charged viewers with imaginatively moving through them. Viewers wanted to interact with artwork in emotional and/or performative ways. This inventive and personal interface between viewers and artists sometimes conflicted with the Church’s prescribed devotional models, and in some cases it complemented them. Artists and patrons responded to the desire for both spontaneous and sanctioned interactions by creating original ways to amplify devotional experiences. The authors included here study the provocation and the reactions associated with medieval and Renaissance art and architecture. These essays trace the impetus towards interactivity from the points of view of their creators and those who used them.
ISBN
978-90-04-21513-9
Publication Date
5-10-2011
Publisher
Brill
Recommended Citation
Blick, Sarah Ed.; Gelfand, Laura Ed.; and Morris, Amy, "Push Me, Pull You: Imaginative, Emotional, Physical, and Spatial Interaction in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art" (2011). Art and Art History Faculty Books and Monographs. 6.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/artarthistfacbooks/6
Comments
The chapter "Art and Advertising: Late Medieval Altarpieces in Germany" is written by University of Nebraska at Omaha's faculty, Dr. Amy Morris. This chapter can be accessed at https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/artarthistfacpub/36/