Anglo-Saxon Styles

328 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Considers the definitions and implications of style in Anglo-Saxon art and literature.Art historian Meyer Schapiro defined style as "the constant form-and sometimes the constant elements, qualities, and expression-in the art of an individual or group." Today, style is frequently overlooked as a critical tool, with our interest instead resting with the personal, the ephemeral, and the fragmentary. Anglo-Saxon Styles demonstrates just how vital style remains in a methodological and theoretical prism, regardless of the object, individual, fragment, or process studied. Contributors from a variety of disciplines-including literature, art history, manuscript studies, philology, and more- consider the definitions and implications of style in Anglo-Saxon culture and in contemporary scholarship. They demonstrate that the idea of style as a "constant form" has its limitations, and that style is in fact the ordering of form, both verbal and visual. Anglo-Saxon texts and images carry meanings and express agendas, presenting us with paradoxes and riddles that require us to keep questioning the meanings of style.

• Reihe: SUNY Press
• ISBN: 9780791458693
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.09.2003
• Größe: 229 x 153 mm
• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Herausgegeben von: George Hardin Brown, Catherine E. Karkov