Ernst Kitzinger and the making of Medieval art history / edited by Felicity Harley-McGowan and Henry Maguire.

• Foreword. Some personal memories of Ernst Kitzinger / Hans Belting -- A scholar in his study : memories of Ernst Kitzinger at work / Rachel Kitzinger -- Ernst in England / John Mitchell -- From London to the Antipodes : the peregrinations of Ernst Kitzinger and the age of 'transformation' / Felicity Harley-McGowan -- 'Cordially, E.K.' : Ernst Kitzinger and teaching at Dumbarton Oaks / Rebecca Corrie -- Ernst Kitzinger's teaching at Harvard : a style of teaching, teaching style / Eunice Dauterman Maguire -- Ernst Kitzinger and style / Henry Maguire -- Ernst Kitzinger's contribution to scholarship on the art of Western Europe / Lawrence Nees -- Ernst Kitzinger's contribution to the study of Norman mosaics in Sicily / Beat Brenk -- Ernst Kitzinger and the invention of Byzantine iconoclasm / Leslie Brubaker.

• The essays collected in this volume publish the proceedings of a colloquium held at the Warburg Institute on 11 January 2013 to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ernst Kitzinger. His work has been, and still is, fundamentally influential on the present-day discipline of art history in a wide range of topics. He pioneered the study of iconoclasm, of Anglo-Saxon art in relation to the art of the Mediterranean, of the manipulation of Byzantine artistic forms by the rulers of Norman Sicily and of the functions and meanings of ornament in media such as textiles and architectural sculpture. The first half of the book is primarily biographical, with papers covering his extraordinary career, which began in Germany, Italy and England in the tumultuous years preceding World War II, before leading to internment in Australia and, eventually, to America. He developed a major centre for the study of Byzantium at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington DC and, in the years before his retirement, taught a new generation of students at Harvard. The second half of the book is devoted to assessments of Kitzinger?s scholarship, including his concern with the theory of style, with the early medieval art of Britain and Continental Europe, with the art of Norman Sicily and with the sources and impact of iconoclasm in the East. The authors describe his pioneering contributions to the field of medieval art history and assess their impact on, and relevance to, the concerns of contemporary scholarship. 

Ämnesord

Konsthistoriker  (sao)

Medeltidskonst  (sao)

Art historians  -- Congresses. (LCSH)

Historians  -- Congresses. (LCSH)

Art, Medieval  -- Congresses. (LCSH)

Art, Medieval  (LCSH)

Art historians  (LCSH)

Genre

Festskrifter  (saogf)

Personnamn

Kitzinger, Ernst, 1912-2003 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Biography.

Kitzinger, Ernst, 1912-2003 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses.

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Lz Biografi: särskilda personer

Ib.3 Konsthistoria: medeltiden

Klassifikation

N7483.K57 (LCC)

709.02 (DDC)

Lz Kitzinger, Ernst (kssb/8)

Ib.3 (kssb/8)