{"product_id":"the-absent-image-elina-gertsman-9780271087849","title":"The Absent Image: Lacunae in Medieval Books","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2022 Charles Rufus Morey Award from the College Art Association\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2023 Otto Gr?dler Book Prize from Western Michigan University\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGuided by Aristotelian theories, medieval philosophers believed that nature abhors a vacuum. Medieval art, according to modern scholars, abhors the same. The notion of \u003ci\u003ehorror vacui\u003c\/i\u003e--the fear of empty space--is thus often construed as a definitive feature of Gothic material culture. In \u003ci\u003eThe Absent Image\u003c\/i\u003e, Elina Gertsman argues that Gothic art, in its attempts to grapple with the unrepresentability of the invisible, actively engages emptiness, voids, gaps, holes, and erasures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExploring complex conversations among medieval philosophy, physics, mathematics, piety, and image-making, Gertsman considers the concept of nothingness in concert with the imaginary, revealing profoundly inventive approaches to emptiness in late medieval visual culture, from ingenious images of the world's creation \u003ci\u003eex nihilo\u003c\/i\u003e to figurations of absence as a replacement for the invisible forces of conception and death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInnovative and challenging, this book will find its primary audience with students and scholars of art, religion, physics, philosophy, and mathematics. It will be particularly welcomed by those interested in phenomenological and cross-disciplinary approaches to the visual culture of the later Middle Ages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elina Gertsman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0271087846\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271087849\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/21\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.80h x 9.30w x 1.10d","brand":"Elina Gertsman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43995919220991,"sku":"9780271087849","price":124.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_57cd6d3f-ce68-4782-b3d2-2a3bbf20a886.jpg?v=1683338638","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-absent-image-elina-gertsman-9780271087849","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}