Artistic Change at St-Denis: Abbot Suger's Program and the Early Twelfth Century Controversy Over Art

by Conrad Rudolph

Regarded as the first work of Gothic art, St-Denis experienced an outburst of artistic creativity under the direction of Abbot Suger (1122- 1151). Although scholars have traditionally seen the monastery as an embodiment of Pseudo-Dionysian light mysticism and the anagogical function of art, they have never resolved the contradiction between Suger's recognized lack of innovation and systematic arrangement in his writings and the highly original, organized...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691040680
• ISBN13: 9780691040684
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.6"