History as a Visual Art in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance

History As a Visual Art in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance

History as a Visual Art in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance was written by and Karl F. Morrison. The 292 page book was published by Princeton University Press in 2014 (originally in 1990) with an ISBN 10 of 1400861187. Most books are now available in ebook, pdf and audible formats. If you need more information about this publication, it can be purchased at Amazon.com or Google Books. If the book is older and/or out of print book try to locate a copy on eBay.com. History as a Visual Art in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance mentions 1 serial killers including Karl Werner. The author Karl F. Morrison has 1 book(s) listed on Killer.Cloud used for the purpose of documenting facts about Serial Killers listed in our database.

Book Summary

Karl Morrison discusses historical writing at a turning point in European culture: the so-called Renaissance of the twelfth century. Why do texts considered at that time to be masterpieces seem now to be fragmentary and full of contradictions? Morrison maintains that the answer comes from ideas about art. Viewing histories as artifacts made according to the same aesthetic principles as paintings and theater, he shows that twelfth-century authors and audiences found unity not in what the reason read in a text but in what the imagination read into it: they prized visual over verbal imagination and employed a circular, or nuclear, spectator-centered perspective cast aside in the Renaissance of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Twelfth-ce...