Stephen Murray
Plotting Gothic
- ISBN 13:
- 9780226191805
- author:
- Stephen Murray
- format:
- HardBack
- publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2015
- Pages:
- 336
- Dimensions:
- 17.8 x 2.8 x 25.4 cm
- Genre:
- Art, Architecture & Photography, Architecture, Types of Architecture
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Stephen Murray's Plotting Gothic offers a fresh approach to understanding the great Gothic churches of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. By examining the rhetoric of the Gothic, Murray identifies three interlocking plots: a spatial plot tied to the material construction of the churches, a social plot stemming from collaborative efforts, and a rhetorical plot involving narratives that treat the churches as objects of desire.
Murray draws on the testimony of Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis, Gervase of Canterbury, and image maker Villard de Honnecourt, among others, to trace common patterns in the way medieval buildings were represented in words and images. This study provides vital information about the construction and complexity of these great churches.
With a range of secondary sources and primary testimony, Plotting Gothic presents an invigorating new way to understand some of the most lasting achievements of the medieval era.
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