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DESCRIPTION:CPW Premodern Mediterranean Seminar \n\n \n\nLuke A. Fidler\n\n
 Assistant Professor\n\nDepartment of Art History\n\nUniversity of Southern
  California\n\n \n\nIn 1179\, Walter of Châtillon argued that Christ took
  form in Mary’s womb ut artifex in opere (“like an artist inside his o
 wn creation”). His image construes the work of art as the privileged occ
 asion for a powerful\, paradoxical rescaling of cause and effect. This tal
 k shows how high-medieval sculptors explored the capacity of aesthetic obj
 ects to make miniature worlds that embody and contain more expansive\, wor
 ld-shaping operations by nesting tiny scenes of figural drama in implement
 s whose visual access and tactile manipulation were liturgically regulated
 . Across the German-speaking lands\, narratives staged with figurines (all
  scaled to the human hand) were secreted in cross and candle bases\, porta
 ble altars\, and eucharistic containers. Attending to this understudied co
 rpus has the potential to reshape disciplinary accounts of the twelfth-cen
 tury ‘rebirth’ of monumental sculpture. But it also reveals the miniat
 ure figure as a philosophical device in period discourse\, one that transa
 cted anxieties about magic\, sacred matter\, and the proliferation of wild
  forms outside ecclesiastical control.
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LOCATION:Social Sciences Building (SOS)\, 250
SUMMARY:Figures of Authority
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CATEGORIES:Lecture / Talk / Workshop
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