History and images : towards a new iconology ; [... History and Images Congress held at the University of Copenhagen, 1999

This versatile collection of essays sets out to underline the new visual agenda in today’s research into history and the history of art. The impact of alternative imagery, of image databases and of computer-generated material has effectively revealed a separate resource-category, offering further definitions of meaning and information and requiring new methodologies of interpretation. The volume’s subtitle, ‘Towards a New Iconology’, makes the point that our conventional approaches towards the image may no longer be adequate. Its nineteen contributions all represent a moving-away from the tradition passed down ever since Gregory the Great famously pronounced images to be the Bible of the illiterate. On the contrary, the authors of this volume demonstrate that images constitute another world altogether, with its own ideology and store of information, and with its own emotional charge and seductive qualities. History and Images contains articles by eminent scholars from Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and USA. Images And History -- Art And History: The Legacy Of Johan Huizinga / Francis Haskell -- Images And The Historian / Jean-claude Schmitt -- Nostalgia For The Real: The Troubled Relation Of Art History To Visual Culture / Keith Moxey -- Image Databases And History -- Pourquoi Elaborer Des Bases De Données D'image? Propositions Pour Une Iconographie Seriélle / Jérôme Baschet -- Image And Word: Systematic Research Into The Relations Between Image And Word In Dutch Culture (1500-1800) / Jörgen Van Den Berg ... [et Al.] -- Six St Jeromes: Notes On The Technology And Uses Of Computer Lighting Simulations / Simon Niedenthal -- The Lincoln Cd-rom Project: History, Theory, Conservation, And Images / Phillip Lindley -- Innovative Hybride Graphische Systeme Zur Denkmalüberwachung Und -verwaltung Am Beispiel Historischer Wandmalereien - Ein Erfahrungs-bericht / Rolf-jürgen Grote, Annette Hornschuch -- Cutting Off The King's Head: Images And The (dis)location Of Power / Frank Colson ... [et Al.] -- 'serra Ex Ferro' - 'serra Ex Vitro': Medieval History - Computers - Image Messages Reconsidered / Gerhard Jaritz -- Quantitative Image Analysis: The Painter Of Wooden Shoes / Alex Bolvig -- Images As Source Material -- At The Sign Of The 'spinning Sow': The 'other' Chartres And Images Of Everyday Life Of The Medieval Street / Michael Camille -- Les Marges à Drôleries Des Manuscrits Gothiques: Problèmes De Méthode / Jean Wirth -- 'primitive' Paintings: The Visual World Of Populus Rusticus / Helena Edgren -- Man And Picture: On The Function Of Wall Paintings In Medieval Churches / Anna Nilsén -- Representations Of Jews In Danish Medieval Art - Can Images Be Used As Source Material On Their Own? / Ulla Haastrup -- Anti-semitism, Image Desecration, And The Problem Of 'jewish Execution' / Norbert Schnitzler -- Framing History With Salvation / Søren Kaspersen -- On The Epistemology Of Images / Lena Liepe. Edited By Axel Bolvig And Phillip Lindley. Includes Bibliographical References. Includes Two Chapters French And One Chapter In German. Introduction, p. xxiii Axel Bolvig Art and history: the legacy of Johan Huizinga, p. 3 Francis Haskell Images and the historian, p. 19 Jean-Claude Schmitt Nostalgia for the real: the troubled relation of art history to visual culture, p. 45 Keith Moxey Pourquoi élaborer des bases de données d’image? Propositions pour une iconographie sérielle, p. 59 Jérôme Baschet Image and word: systematic research into the relations between image and word in Dutch culture (1500–1800), p. 107 Jörgen van den Berg, Hans Brandhorst, Peter van Huisstede Six St Jeromes: notes on the technology and uses of computer lighting simulations, p. 131 Simon Niedenthal The Lincoln CD-ROM Project: history, theory, conservation, and images, p. 139 Phillip Lindley Innovative hybride graphische Systeme zur Denkmalüberwachung und -verwaltung am Beispiel historischer Wandmalereien—Ein Erfahrungsbericht, p. 165 Rolf-Jürgen Grote, Annette Hornschuch Cutting off the king’s head: images and the (dis)location of power, p. 187 Frank Colson, Jean Colson, Ross Parry, Andrew Sawyer ‘Serra ex ferro’—‘Serra ex vitro’: medieval history—computers—image messages reconsidered, p. 209 Gerhard Jaritz Quantitative image analysis: the Painter of wooden shoes, p. 229 Axel Bolvig At the sign of the ‘Spinning Sow’: the ‘other’ Chartres and images of everyday life of the medieval street, p. 249 Michael Camille Les marges à drôleries des manuscrits gothiques: problèmes de méthode, p. 277 Jean Wirth ‘Primitive’ paintings: the visual world of populus rusticus, p. 301 Helena Edgren Man and picture: on the function of wall paintings in medieval churches, p. 323 Anna Nilsén Representations of Jews in Danish medieval art—can images be used as source material on their own?, p. 341 Ulla Haastrup Anti-semitism, image desecration, and the problem of ‘Jewish execution’, p. 357 Norbert Schnitzler Framing history with salvation, p. 379 Søren Kaspersen On the epistemology of images, p. 415 Lena Liepe This important collection of essays represents a wide variety of new approaches to the deployment of images by historians. Methodological debates and historiographical concerns are explored by distinguished international scholars. Ground-breaking technological innovations in the last two decades of the twentieth century have led to the development of huge image databases, offering outstanding new opportunities for comparison, analysis and interrogation. This was apparent from the database demonstrations at the congress on History and Images in Copenhagen in 1999, part of the University of Copenhagen's Visual Construction of Realities research programme. Several of the papers included here summarise recent research or disclose the potential of the new technologies for posing - and answering - novel types of question. A common concern of many contributors to this volume has been the reconfiguring of Art History to encompass areas which have often been viewed as marginal - geographically, physically or intellectually, for example. As each of the nineteen essays demonstrates, approaches to the employment and interpretation of the visual image by historians have been increasingly rendered obsolete or inappropriate by postmodern intellectual diversity and by the dramatic development of technology. The subtitle of the book ('Towards a New Iconology') reveals that a potent new dialogue between historian and image and between contemporary and historical constructions of reality, is in the process of construction. The 19 papers of this collection were first presented at the 1999 History and Images Congress held at the U. of Copenhagen in Denmark. As reflected in the subtitle, the international group of historians and art historians provide essays that reflect new approaches to the reading of images, with the papers divided into the main topics of images and history, image databases and history, and images as source material Edited By Axel Bolvig And Phillip Lindley. Includes Bibliographical References. Mode Of Access: Internet Text In English With Two Chapters In French And One Chapter In German.