Medieval Graffiti

Author : Matthew Champion
Publisher : Random House
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781473503632

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Medieval Graffiti by Matthew Champion Pdf

For centuries carved writings and artworks in churches lay largely unnoticed. So archaeologist Matthew Champion started a nationwide survey to gather the best examples. In this book he shines a spotlight on a forgotten world of ships, prayers for good fortune, satirical cartoons, charms, curses, windmills, word puzzles, architectural plans and heraldic designs. Drawing on examples from surviving medieval churches in England, the author gives a voice to the secret graffiti artists: from the lord of the manor and the parish priest to the people who built the church itself. Here are strange medieval beasts, knights battling unseen dragons, ships sailing across lime-washed oceans and demons who stalk the walls. Latin prayers for the dead jostle with medieval curses, builders’ accounts and slanderous comments concerning a long-dead archdeacon. Strange and complex geometric designs, created to ward off the ‘evil eye’ and thwart the works of the devil, share church pillars with the heraldic shields of England’s medieval nobility.

Author : Abóu al-Faraj al-IỲsbahóanī
Publisher : Markus Wiener Publishers
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015048567617

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The Book of Strangers by Abóu al-Faraj al-IỲsbahóanī Pdf

A 10th century Iraqi took to collecting verse graffiti left behind by travellers. The result of his pastime was a little book that conjures up his nostalgic mood in a manner rarely attempted in Arabic literature. This work offers a translation of his work and discusses its cultural context.

Author : Troy R Lovata,Elizabeth Olton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781315416120

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Understanding Graffiti by Troy R Lovata,Elizabeth Olton Pdf

This collection of original articles brings together for the first time the research on graffiti from a wide range of geographical and chronological contexts and shows how they are interpreted in various fields. Examples range as widely as medieval European cliff carvings to tags on New York subway cars to messages left in library bathrooms. In total, the authors legitimize the study of graffiti as a multidisciplinary pursuit that can produce useful knowledge of individuals, cultures, and nations. The chapters-represent 20 authors from six countries; -offer perspectives of disciplines as diverse as archaeology, history, art history, museum studies, and sociology;-elicit common themes of authority and its subversion, the identity work of subcultures and countercultures, and presentation of privilege and status.

Author : David Brafman
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606066980

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LA Graffiti Black Book by David Brafman Pdf

This collection of unique works by 150 Los Angeles graffiti and tattoo artists represents an unprecedented collaboration across the city’s diverse artistic landscape. Many graffiti artists carry sketchbooks, called black books, and they ask crew members and others whose work they admire to inscribe their books with lettering or drawings. A few years ago, the Getty Research Institute invited artists, including Angst, Axis, Big Sleeps, Chaz, Cre8, Defer, EyeOne, Fishe, Heaven, Hyde, Look, ManOne, and Prime, to consider the idea of a citywide graffiti black book. During visits to the Getty Center, the artists viewed rare books related to calligraphy and letterforms, including works by Albrecht Dürer and Leonardo da Vinci. The artists instantly recognized the connections to their own practices and were particularly drawn to a liber amicorum (book of friends), a form of autograph book popular in the seventeenth century. Passed from hand to hand, it was filled with signatures, poetry, and coats of arms, like a black book from another era. Inspired by this meeting of minds across centuries, these artists became both creators and curators, crafting their own pages and inviting others to contribute. Eventually 150 Los Angeles artists decorated 143 individual pages. These were bound together into an exquisite artists’ book that became known as the Getty Graffiti Black Book. This publication reproduces each page from the original artists’ book and recounts the story of an unprecedented collaboration across the diverse artistic landscape of Los Angeles.

Author : Antonio E. Felle,Bryan Ward-Perkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-29
Category : Graffiti
ISBN : 2503593119

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Cultic Graffiti in the Late Antique Mediterranean and Beyond by Antonio E. Felle,Bryan Ward-Perkins Pdf

A volume that collects and discusses the graffiti, scratched or drawn on religious shrines in the first centuries of Christianity and Islam, by ordinary men and women, seeking the help of their God and their favoured saints.

Author : George Gordon Coulton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Electronic
ISBN : YALE:39002029470441

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Medieval Graffiti by George Gordon Coulton Pdf

Author : Christopher Gerrard,Alejandra Gutiérrez
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191062117

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The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain by Christopher Gerrard,Alejandra Gutiérrez Pdf

The Middle Ages are all around us in Britain. The Tower of London and the castles of Scotland and Wales are mainstays of cultural tourism and an inspiring cross-section of later medieval finds can now be seen on display in museums across England, Scotland, and Wales. Medieval institutions from Parliament and monarchy to universities are familiar to us and we come into contact with the later Middle Ages every day when we drive through a village or town, look up at the castle on the hill, visit a local church or wonder about the earthworks in the fields we see from the window of a train. The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain provides an overview of the archaeology of the later Middle Ages in Britain between AD 1066 and 1550. 61 entries, divided into 10 thematic sections, cover topics ranging from later medieval objects, human remains, archaeological science, standing buildings, and sites such as castles and monasteries, to the well-preserved relict landscapes which still survive. This is a rich and exciting period of the past and most of what we have learnt about the material culture of our medieval past has been discovered in the past two generations. This volume provides comprehensive coverage of the latest research and describes the major projects and concepts that are changing our understanding of our medieval heritage.

Author : G. Partington,A. Smyth
Publisher : Springer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137367662

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Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary by G. Partington,A. Smyth Pdf

This rich and varied collection of essays by scholars and interviews with artists approaches the fraught topic of book destruction from a new angle, setting out an alternative history of the cutting, burning, pulping, defacing and tearing of books from the medieval period to our own age.

Author : V. Pritchard
Publisher : Cambridge : Cambridge U.P.
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015078794651

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English Medieval Graffiti by V. Pritchard Pdf

Mrs Pritchard illuminates a neglected corner of medieval art.

Author : Geoff Emberling,Suzanne Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Egypt
ISBN : 099066239X

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Graffiti as Devotion Along the Nile and Beyond by Geoff Emberling,Suzanne Davis Pdf

For ancient societies, graffiti are personal expressions otherwise rare in the archaeological and historical record. This volume is focused around a group of ancient and medieval figural graffiti found in 2015 by an archaeological project of the Kelsey Museum, University of Michigan, at the site of El-Kurru, a royal burial ground in north Sudan.

Author : Hannah Ryley
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Book industries and trade
ISBN : 9781914049064

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Re-using Manuscripts in Late Medieval England by Hannah Ryley Pdf

A fresh appraisal of late medieval manuscript culture in England, examining the ways in which people sustained older books, exploring the practices and processes by which manuscripts were crafted, mended, protected, marked, gifted and shared.

Author : Linda Safran
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812208917

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The Medieval Salento by Linda Safran Pdf

Located in the heel of the Italian boot, the Salento region was home to a diverse population between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. Inhabitants spoke Latin, Greek, and various vernaculars, and their houses of worship served sizable congregations of Jews as well as Roman-rite and Orthodox Christians. Yet the Salentines of this period laid claim to a definable local identity that transcended linguistic and religious boundaries. The evidence of their collective culture is embedded in the traces they left behind: wall paintings and inscriptions, graffiti, carved ­­tombstone decorations, belt fittings from graves, and other artifacts reveal a wide range of religious, civic, and domestic practices that helped inhabitants construct and maintain personal, group, and regional identities. The Medieval Salento allows the reader to explore the visual and material culture of a people using a database of over three hundred texts and images, indexed by site. Linda Safran draws from art history, archaeology, anthropology, and ethnohistory to reconstruct medieval Salentine customs of naming, language, appearance, and status. She pays particular attention to Jewish and nonelite residents, whose lives in southern Italy have historically received little scholarly attention. This extraordinarily detailed visual analysis reveals how ethnic and religious identities can remain distinct even as they mingle to become a regional culture.

Author : Michael Camille
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781780232508

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Image on the Edge by Michael Camille Pdf

What do they all mean – the lascivious ape, autophagic dragons, pot-bellied heads, harp-playing asses, arse-kissing priests and somersaulting jongleurs to be found protruding from the edges of medieval buildings and in the margins of illuminated manuscripts? Michael Camille explores that riotous realm of marginal art, so often explained away as mere decoration or zany doodles, where resistance to social constraints flourished. Medieval image-makers focused attention on the underside of society, the excluded and the ejected. Peasants, servants, prostitutes and beggars all found their place, along with knights and clerics, engaged in impudent antics in the margins of prayer-books or, as gargoyles, on the outsides of churches. Camille brings us to an understanding of how marginality functioned in medieval culture and shows us just how scandalous, subversive, and amazing the art of the time could be.

Author : Ricardo Campos,Yiannis Zaimakis,Andrea Pavoni
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789209426

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Political Graffiti in Critical Times by Ricardo Campos,Yiannis Zaimakis,Andrea Pavoni Pdf

Whether aesthetically or politically inspired, graffiti is among the oldest forms of expression in human history, one that becomes especially significant during periods of social and political upheaval. With a particular focus on the demographic, ecological, and economic crises of today, this volume provides a wide-ranging exploration of urban space and visual protest. Assembling case studies that cover topics such as gentrification in Cyprus, the convulsions of post-independence East Timor, and opposition to Donald Trump in the American capital, it reveals the diverse ways in which street artists challenge existing social orders and reimagine urban landscapes.

Author : Joelle Rollo-Koster
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004475830

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Medieval and Early Modern Ritual: Formalized Behavior in Europe, China and Japan by Joelle Rollo-Koster Pdf

The essays in this volume transcend Eastern and Western geographical boundaries during a loosely defined medieval and early modern period, ranging from Carolingian Europe to Qing China, and pull rituals out of their geographical contexts. Cultural history binds these essays together. This volume permits readers to compare ritual in religious and secular contexts, in the East and West, and to focus on the purposes of ritual, without being caught up in localism or historical jingoism. The various essays are organized chronologically and thematically; they focus on ritual and gender, law, identity and political legitimization. They cover topics as varied as the spatial appropriation of surfaces and territories, charity, carnival, women's magic, the Jesuits, graffiti, theater, business, medicine, Qing imperial ceremonies, Chinese princesses coming of age, spiritual reconciliation, and the Great Western Schism. Contributors include: Catherine Bell, Virginia A. Cole, Andrée Courtemanche, James L. Hevia, Michael W. Maher, S.J., Véronique Plesch, Marguerite Ragnow, Martha Rampton, Eric C. Rath, Dylan Reid, Kathryn Reyerson, Joëlle Rollo-Koster, and Ann Waltner.