History and Images: Towards a New Iconology

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This important collection of essays represents a wide variety of new approaches to the deployment of images by historians. Methodological debates and historiographical concerns are explored by distinguished international scholars. Ground-breaking technological innovations in the last two decades of the twentieth century have led to the development of huge image databases, offering outstanding new opportunities for comparison, analysis and interrogation. This was apparent from the database demonstrations at the congress on 'History and Images' in Copenhagen in 1999, part of the University of Copenhagen's 'Visual Construction of Realities' research programme. Several of the papers included here summarise recent research or disclose the potential of the new technologies for posing - and answering - novel types of question. A common concern of many contributors to this volume has been the reconfiguring of Art History to encompass areas which have often been viewed as marginal - geographically, physically or intellectually, for example. As each of the nineteen essays demonstrates, approaches to the employment and interpretation of the visual image by historians have been increasingly rendered obsolete or inappropriate by postmodern intellectual diversity and by the dramatic development of technology. The subtitle of the book ('Towards a New Iconology') reveals that a potent new dialogue between historian and image and between contemporary and historical constructions of reality, is in the process of construction. List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgements xix Photographic Acknowledgments xxi Introduction xxiii IMAGES AND HISTORY Art and history: the legacy of Johan Huizinga / FRANCIS HASKELL 3 Images and the historian / JEAN-CLAUDE SCHMITT 19 Nostalgia for the real: the troubled relation of art history to visual culture / KEITH MOXEY 45 IMAGE DATABASES AND HISTORY Pourquoi élaborer des bases de données d’image? Propositions pour une iconographie sérielle / JÉRÔME BASCHET 59 Image and word: systematic research into the relations between image and word in Dutch culture (1500-1800) / JÖRGEN VAN DEN BERG, HANS BRANDHORST, PETER VAN HUISSTEDE 107 Six St Jeromes: notes on the technology and uses of computer lighting simulations / SIMON NIEDENTHAL 131 The Lincoln CD-ROM Project: history, theory, conservation, and images / PHILLIP LINDLEY 139 Innovative hybride graphische Systeme zur Denkmalüberwachung und -verwaltung am Beispiel historischer Wandmalereien — Ein Erfahrungsbericht / ROLF-JÜRGEN GROTE, ANNETTE HORNSCHUCH 165 Cutting off the king’s head: images and the (dis)location of power / FRANK COLSON, JEAN COLSON, ROSS PARRY, ANDREW SAWYER 187 'Serra ex ferro' — 'Serra ex vitro': medieval history - computers - image messages reconsidered / GERHARD JARITZ 209 Quantitative image analysis: the Painter of wooden shoes / AXEL BOLVIG 229 IMAGES AS SOURCE MATERIAL At the sign of the 'Spinning Sow': the 'other' Chartres and images of everyday life of the medieval street / MICHAEL CAMILLE 249 Les marges à drôleries des manuscrits gothiques: problèmes de méthode / JEAN WIRTH 277 'Primitive' paintings: the visual world of populus rusticus / HELENA EDGREN 301 Man and picture: on the function of wall paintings in medieval churches / ANNA NILSÉN 323 Representations of Jews in Danish medieval art — can images be used as source material on their own? / ULLA HAASTRUP 341 Anti-semitism, image desecration, and the problem of 'Jewish execution' / NORBERT SCHNITZLER 357 Framing history with salvation / SØREN KASPERSEN 379 On the epistemology of images / LENA LIEPE 415