Medieval Modern

Art Out of Time

Alexander Nagel

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Thames & Hudson Ltd
19 November 2012

Art & Architecture; History of Art & Design Styles

This groundbreaking book offers a radical new reading of art since the Middle Ages and sheds fresh light on the deep connections between modern and pre-modern art. Moving across the familiar lines set out in conventional histories, Alexander Nagel offers a radical new reading of art since the Middle Ages. Rich collisions and fresh perspectives reveal ideas and practices across centuries of artistic practice, and provide a new set of reference points that reframe the history of art itself.

The author reconsiders key issues in the history of art, from iconoclasm and idolatry to installation and the museum as institution. He shows how the central tenets of modernism - serial production, site-specificity, collage, the readymade and the questioning of the nature of art and authorship - were all features of earlier times, now revived by recent generations.

The book examines, among a host of other topics, the importance of medieval cathedrals to the 1920s Bauhaus movement; the parallels between Renaissance altarpieces and modern preoccupations with surface and structure; the relevance of Byzantine models to Minimalist artists; the affinities between ancient holy sites and earthworks; the sacred relic and the modern readymade.

Alongside the work of leading twentieth-century medievalist writers such as Walter Benjamin, Marshall McLuhan, Leo Steinberg and Umberto Eco, Nagel considers a wide range of celebrated artists, from Giotto, Leonardo, Michelangelo and Caravaggio to Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, Robert Smithson and Damien Hirst.

By: Alexander Nagel
Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 165mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 1.200kg
ISBN: 9780500238974
ISBN 10: 0500238979
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 19 November 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alexander Nagel is Professor of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and a contributor to Cabinet, ARTNews, Artforum and other journals and magazines.

Reviews for Medieval Modern: Art Out of Time

Nagel argues the fascinating thesis that medieval and modern art should be considered in concert to better understand the latter. This lengthy scholarly work discusses structural analogies between medieval and modern art, for example, discussing both eras' emphasis on the placement of art in specific real-world sites, as well as on surfaces and the art object itself. . . . Provides a readable argument and offers wide-ranging examples.