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Images in the Margins

Images in the Margins

Nishimura, Margot

Hardcover

Series: Medieval Imagination

Art HistoryGeneral ArtTypography & Calligraphy

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ISBN10: 0892369825
ISBN13: 9780892369829
Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum
Published: Oct 6 2009
Pages: 96
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.50 Width: 7.60 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

Through enlarged, full-color details and a lively narrative, this volume brings these intimately scaled, fascinating images to a wider audience.

Images in the Margins is the third in the popular Medieval Imagination series of small, affordable books drawing on manuscript illumination in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the British Library. Each volume focuses on a particular theme and provides an accessible, delightful introduction to the imagination of the medieval world.

An astonishing mix of mundane, playful, absurd, and monstrous beings are found in the borders of English, French, and Italian manuscripts from the Gothic era. Unpredictable, topical, often irreverent, like the New Yorker cartoons of today, marginalia--images drawn in the margins of manuscripts--were a source of satire, serious social observation, and amusement for medieval readers.

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