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From late medieval reenactments of the Deposition from the Cross to Sol Lewitts Buried Cube, Depositions is about taking down images and about images that anticipate being taken down. Foretelling their own depositions, as well as their re-elevations in contexts far from those in which they were made, the images studied in this book reveal themselves to be untimely--no truer to their first appearance than to their later reappearances. In Depositions, Amy Powell makes the case that late medieval paintings and ritual reenactments of the Deposition from the Cross not only picture the deposition of Christ (the Imago Dei) but also allegorize the deposition of the image as such and, in so doing, prefigure the lowering of dead images during the Protestant Reformation. Late medieval pre-figurations of Reformation iconoclasm anticipate, in turn, the repeated deaths of art since the advent of photography: that is the premise of the vignettes devoted to twentieth-century works of art that conclude each chapter of this book.

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Book category Books in English The arts History of art / art & design styles History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400

• Full title: Depositions - Scenes from the late Medieval Church and the Modern Museum
• Author: Amy Knight Powell
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 384
• EAN: 9781935408208
• ISBN: 1935408208
• ID: 04466793
• Publisher: Zone Books
• Weight: 736 g
• Dimensions: 231 × 163 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. October 2012

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