Iconography at the Crossroads

by Princeton University

As art historians draw increasingly from such cognate fields as literary theory and anthropology for new modes of inquiry, scholars in fields as diverse as music and the history of medicine are turning to images in art as sources of information for their respective disciplines. Focusing on the role of iconography in this cross-fertilization, these papers examine how students of the Middle Ages and Renaissance search for meaning in the subject matter...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691000379
• ISBN13: 9780691000374
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 268 Pages