Gothic Wonder

Art, Artifice, and the Decorated Style, 1290–1350

Paul Binski

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Yale University Press
27 November 2014

History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art; History of architecture

In this wide-ranging, eloquent book, Paul Binski sheds new light on one of the greatest periods of English art and architecture, offering ground-breaking arguments about the role of invention and the powers of Gothic art. His richly documented study locates what became known as the Decorated Style within patterns of commissioning, designing, and imagining whose origins lay in pre-Gothic art. By examining notions of what was extraordinary, re-evaluating medieval ideas of authorship, and restoring economic considerations to the debate, Binski sets English visual art of the early 14th century in a broad European context and also within the aesthetic discourses of the medieval period. The author, stressing the continuum between art and architecture, challenges understandings about agency, modernity, hierarchy, and marginality. His book makes a powerful case for the restoration of the category of the aesthetic to the understanding of medieval art. Generously illustrated with hundreds of images, Gothic Wonder traces the impact of English art in Continental Europe, ending with the Black Death and the literary uses of the architectural in works by Geoffrey Chaucer and other writers.

Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

By: Paul Binski
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 216mm, Spine: 37mm
Weight: 2.159kg
ISBN: 9780300204001
ISBN 10: 0300204000
Pages: 452
Publication Date: 27 November 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print

Paul Binski is professor of the history of medieval art, Cambridge University.

Reviews for Gothic Wonder: Art, Artifice, and the Decorated Style, 1290–1350

'Paul Binski's Gothic Wonder superbly places English visual art (including illuminated manuscripts) firmly within the broader European context, emphasising aesthetics, themes and motifs that recur.'-James Stevens Curl, THES. -- James Stevens Curl THE Winner of the 2015 Historians of British Art Book Prize for a single-author work relating to a period before 1800. -- Book Award Historians of British Art