Eye and Mind: Collected Essays in Anglo-Saxon and Early Medieval Art by Robert Deshman (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781580441216)

Robert Deshman wove together a dense and tightly structured nexus of Early Christian, Carolingian, Anglo-Saxon, and Ottonian manuscript illuminations, ivories, textiles, mosaics, and wall paintings on the one hand, and contemporary exegetical, liturgical, and political writings on the other. In so doing, he ultimately demonstrated the intrinsic connections among visual culture, theology, philosophy, political theory, and ecclesiastic doctrine and practice. Although he used the word only once in his own writings, at the very end of his career, Deshman was truly an interdisciplinary scholar of the first order ... The thirteen articles collected in this volume were published between 1971 and 1997 (four posthumously) in six different journals and four edited books. Reprinting them is meant not only to make the articles more accessible but also to present a cohesive body of work (primarily on Anglo-Saxon art) that as a whole has yet to be surpassed or methodologically replaced in the scholarly literature.

Author: Adam S. Cohen
ISBN-10: 1580441211
ISBN-13: 9781580441216
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2010
Pages: 370
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.36lbs

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2010 pg. 250