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Image on the Edge
Michael Camille · 1992 · 176 pages
Margins in booksMedieval ArtMarginaliaMedieval Illumination of books and manuscriptsMarginality, Social, in artThemes, motives
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Camille considers marginalia--in the cathedral, the court, the monastery--in direct and complex relation to the whole work. Ranging through the culture of the Middle Ages, he finds in the margins a distorted yet apt reflection of medieval conventions. It is here that medieval artists found room for experimentation, for parodying, modernizing, and questioning cultural authority without ever undermining it.
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