Depositions

Scenes from the Late Medieval Church and the Modern Museum

Amy Knight Powell

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Zone Books
02 January 2013

History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art; Painting & paintings; Religious subjects depicted in art

Series: Depositions

A provocative study of the iconoclastic impulse in medieval and modern art.

From late medieval reenactments of the Deposition from the Cross to Sol Lewitt's 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.

In these vignettes, images that once stood in late medieval churches now find themselves among works of art from the more recent past with which they share certain formal characteristics. These surreal encounters compel us to reckon with affinities between images from different times and places. Turning pseudomorphosis-formal resemblance where there is no similarity of artistic intent-on its head, Powell explores what happens to our understanding of historically and conceptually distant works of art when they look alike.

By: Amy Knight Powell
Imprint: Zone Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 34mm
Weight: 748g
ISBN: 9781935408208
ISBN 10: 1935408208
Series: Depositions
Pages: 376
Publication Date: 02 January 2013
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Amy Knight Powell is Assistant Professor in Art History at the University of California, Irvine.

Reviews for Depositions: Scenes from the Late Medieval Church and the Modern Museum

Powell's Depositions has the capacity to change the terms of debate in art history in fundamental and necessary ways. -- Caroline Walker Bynum, Common Knowledge