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Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent Hardcover – May 30, 1997

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  • Hardcover: 370 pages
  • Publisher: University of California Press; First Edition edition (May 30, 1997)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0520203860
  • ISBN-13: 978-0520203860
  • Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 1.1 x 10.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsa masterful work
By LuelCanyon on April 29, 2007
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An exquisite book in every way. Hamburger's arguments are spun with cosmic refinement, letting the whole mediaeval spirit reign human and beautiful, and focusing on its treasures - the mediaeval convent and the women religious whose work as artisans of devotion remains to this day an urgent interest. The story is unheard of, and soaked with succinct scholarship. The writing's uncommonly beautiful, full of intellectual fervor, but as mild as the Jesu of the women whose remarkable images still astonish after hundreds of years. The red Christ is a pure doctrinal exegisis for every age, and a real find. Hamburger draws the right relationship between the nuns' art, their lives of profession, and essential information about the religious' interior relationship to the wider Church throughout the high Middle Ages. His fondness for and ready assent to the vitality of the art of the nuns of St Walburg only shows his scholarship more clearly. Nothing gets in the way, and the illustrations from beginning to end are unforgettable. A large section of full color plates (including the red Christ) in the center of the book, and the vital b/w illustrations are closeup, and a critical part of a captivating story. We're told as much about our own age by this masterful book as we are the world of gifted cloistered women, and the implications of that are far-reaching.
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2.0 out of 5 starsDisappointing to me
By Mark Thrice on June 28, 2011
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Sadly, there is NOT a large section of color images, just a few pages. Without color these pictures do not convey much. Perhaps I feel this way because I am a visual artist, but I need to see the color to understand these images. There is no place online that I can find that offers these images in color.

Do not buy this book thinking that its pictures are worth much. Perhaps the words will have enough value for others to make it worth its high price, but for me it was a sad disappointment.
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