A01=Michael Camille
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
architecture
Author_Michael Camille
automatic-update
bawdy
beggars
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=ACK
Category=AGA
cathedral
church
city
clerics
COP=United Kingdom
court
decoration
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
doodles
dragons
eq_art-fashion-photography
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
gargoyles
gothic
grotesque
history
humor
illuminated manuscripts
impudence
knights
Language_English
lascivious
marginal art
marginalia
marginalized
medieval
monastery
nonfiction
PA=Available
peasants
prayer-books
Price_€10 to €20
priest
prostitutes
PS=Active
religion
resistance
servants
softlaunch
spirituality
subversion
urban
Product details
- ISBN 9781789140064
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jun 2019
- Publisher: Reaktion Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
What do they all mean – the lascivious ape, autophagic dragons, pot-bellied heads, harp-playing asses, arse-kissing priests and somersaulting jongleurs to be found protuding from the edges of medieval buildings and in the margins of illuminated manuscripts? Now available in a new hardback edition, Michael Camille's Image on the Edge explores that riotous realm of marginal art, so often explained away as mere decoration or zany doodles, where resistance to social constraints flourished.
Medieval image-makers focused attention on the underside of society, the excluded and the ejected. Peasants, servants, prostitutes and beggars all found their place, along with knights and clerics, engaged in impudent antics in the margins of prayer-books or, as gargoyles, on the outsides of churches. Camille brings us to an understanding of how marginality functioned in medieval culture and shows us just how scandalous, subversive and amazing the art of the time could be.
Before his death in 2002, Michael Camille was Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago. His books include Image on the Edge (Reaktion, 1992), Mirror in Parchment (Reaktion, 1998) and The Gothic Idol: Ideology and Image-Making in Medieval Art (1989).
