SallyM. Foster

Able Minds and Practiced Hands (eBook, ePUB)

Scotland's Early Medieval Sculpture in the 21st Century

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

One hundred years on from J Romilly Allen and Joseph Anderson's 1903 landmark publication, The Early Christian Monuments of Scotland, twenty six essays explore the current state of knowledge of early medieval sculpture in Scotland

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351577830
• Artikelnr.: 49045022

Autorenporträt

Sally M. Foster, Morag Cross

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Able Minds and Practised Hands: Historical Fact,
21st-Century Aspiration 2. Sculpture in Action: Contexts for Stone Carving
on the Tarbat Peninsula, Easter Ross 3. That Stone was Born Here and That's
Where it Belongs': Hilton of Cadboll and the Negotiation of Identity,
Ownership and Belonging 4. Just an Ald Steen': Reverence, Reuse, Revulsion
and Rediscovery 5. Fragments of Significance: The Whole Picture 6. Christ's
Cross Down into the Earth: Some Cross-Bases and their Problems 7. Pictish
Cross-Slabs: An Examination of their Original Archaeological Context 8. Hic
Memoria Perpetua: The Early Inscribed Stones of Southern Scotland in
Context 9. The Govan School Revisited: Searching for Meaning in the Early
Medieval Sculpture of Strathclyde 10. Scotland's Early Medieval Sculpture
in the 21st Century: A Strategic Overview of Conservation Problems,
Maintenance and Replication Methods 11. The Containment of Scottish Carved
Stones in Situ: An Environmental Study of the Efficacy of Glazed Enclosures
12. The Runic Inscriptions of Scotland: Preservation, Documentation and
Interpretation 13. Understanding What We See, or Seeing What We Understand:
Graphic Recording, Past and Present, of the Early Medieval Sculpture at St
Vigeans 14. The Bulls of Burghead and Allen's Technique of Illustration 15.
A Perfect Accuracy of Delineation': Charlotte Wilhelmina Hibbert's Drawings
of Early Medieval Carved Stones in Scotland 16. Bird, Beast or Fish?
Problems of Identification and Interpretation of the Iconography Carved on
the Tarbat Peninsula Cross-Slabs 17. Figuring Salvation: An Excursus into
the Iconography of the Iona Crosses 18. The Role of Geological Analysis of
Monuments: A Case Study from St Vigeans and Related Sites 19. The Early
Medieval Sculptures from Murthly, Perth and Kinross: An Interdisciplinary
Look at People, Politics and Monumental Art 20. Know Your Properties,
Recognise the Possibilities: Historic Scotland's Strategy for the
Interpretation of Early Medieval Sculpture in its Care 21. Proposals for
the Re-Display of the Early Medieval Sculpture Collection at Whithorn: The
Evolution of an Interpretative Approach 22. Curators of the Last Resort:
The Role of a Local Museum Service in the Preservation and Interpretation
of Early Medieval Sculptured Stones 23. A Museum Curator's Adventures in
Pictland 24. The Missing Dimension: Future Directions in Digital Recording
of Early Medieval Sculptured Stone 25. Three-Dimensional Recording of
Pictish Sculpture 26. Towards A 'New ECMS': The Proposal for a New Corpus
of Early Medieval Sculpture in Scotland