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Anglo-Saxon Styles

By Catherine E. Karkov , George Hardin Brown

Book information

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
2003
ISBN
9780791458709, 0791458709, 0791458695, 9780791458693, 9781417538393
LCC
DA152.2 .A755 2003
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7278564 bytes)
Series
SUNY Series in Medieval Studies
Pages
329\329
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Art historian Meyer Schapiro defined style as "the constant form—and sometimes the constant elements, qualities, and expression—in the art of an individual or group." Today, style is frequently overlooked as a critical tool, with our interest instead resting with the personal, the ephemeral, and the fragmentary. Anglo-Saxon Styles demonstrates just how vital style remains in a methodological and theoretical prism, regardless of the object, individual, fragment, or process studied. Contributors from a variety of disciplines—including literature, art history, manuscript studies, philology, and more— consider the definitions and implications of style in Anglo-Saxon culture and in contemporary scholarship. They demonstrate that the idea of style as a "constant form" has its limitations, and that style is in fact the ordering of form, both verbal and visual. Anglo-Saxon texts and images carry meanings and express agendas, presenting us with paradoxes and riddles that require us to keep questioning the meanings of style.

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