This publication brings together essays by scholars of both medieval and contemporary art, offering a cross-disciplinary approach of both periods. It investigates how contemporary artists and contemporary art historians perceive medieval art, and, reciprocally, how medieval art historians envisage the echoes of medieval artforms and esthetics in contemporary art. The volume follows on from the symposium organized in conjunction with the exhibition “Make it New: Carte Blanche \u00e0 Jan Dibbets” that was held at the Biblioth\u00e8que Nationale de France (Paris) in 2019, and which presented side by side Hrabanus Maurus\u2019s De Laudibus Sanctae Crucis (In Praise of the Holy Cross), a masterpiece of Carolingian art, with works by artists associated with conceptual art, mininimal art, and land art. How and why has medieval art, and particularly early medieval art, inspired contemporary artists since the 1950s? What has medieval art contributed to contemporary art? How has medieval art\u2019s treatment of figures, color, space, geometry, and rhythm provided inspiration for contemporary artists\u2019 experiments with form? In what way does contemporary artists\u2019 engagement with the topics of formatting, writing, semiosis, mimesis, and ornamentation draw inspiration from medieval models? To what extent and in what sense are the notions of authorship and performativity relevant for understanding conceptions of artmaking in both periods? Rather than focusing on medievalism and citational practices, or on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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