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2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Image language and typology in Medieval Art : formation, interpretation and function of image text

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15520084
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Aesthetics/Art history
Research InstitutionNagoya University

Principal Investigator

KIMATA Motokazu  Nagoya University, Graduate School of Letters, Professor, 大学院・文学研究科, 教授 (00195348)

Project Period (FY) 2003 – 2004
Keywordsart history / medeval art history / typology / text / image / language
Research Abstract

Conditions of a textual space in which an image text consist of visual language is to come into being vary with its media, such as manuscript illustration, artisanal art, monumental sculpture or painting, stained glass. To consider this question, we have examined an example of an image text constructed with elements supplied by a building (tympanum, archivolt, lintel, doorframe, capital, column, base, etc.) in the context of church portals of Romanesque or Gothic Style. We have considered the composition and function of an image text in the church portals depicting "The Last Judgment" at Saint-Foy of Conques and Cathedral Saint-Lazare of Autun in France. We have considered also the question of time in a narrative content and a narration through an image text, and further in the act of "reading" by which a viewer of an image text forms in his consciousness a story. The example we treated is an illustration of the Vienna Genesis that depicts an Ancient Testament subject, Jacob and his family going across a river. In this illustration, a narrative text is not formed as a line in which many moments are arranged in a homogeneous row, but as a network in which past, present and future overlap each other in a moment. Whether an image text represents single subject or plural subjects, the key question is how a network is formed in an image text or between plural texts.

  • Research Products

    (8 results)

All 2005 2004

All Journal Article (4 results) Book (4 results)

  • [Journal Article] 図像テクストにおける物語叙述:『ウィーン創世記』の一挿絵をめぐる覚え書2005

    • Author(s)
      木俣元一
    • Journal Title

      SITES : Journal of Studies for the Integrated Text Science 2・2

      Pages: 157-171

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Narrative by image text : Note on an illustration of the Wien Genesis2005

    • Author(s)
      Motokazu Kimata
    • Journal Title

      Sites : Journal of Studies for the Integrated Text Science 2/2

      Pages: 157-171

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] キリストのイコンにおけるイメージと刻印2004

    • Author(s)
      木俣元一
    • Journal Title

      西洋美術研究 11

      Pages: 87-93

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Image and impress in Christ icon2004

    • Author(s)
      Motokazu Kimata
    • Journal Title

      Studies in Western Art 11

      Pages: 87-93

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Book] フランス・ゴシックを仰ぐ旅2005

    • Author(s)
      木俣元一, 都築響一
    • Total Pages
      143
    • Publisher
      新潮社
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Book] Gothic Art in France2005

    • Author(s)
      Motokazu Kimata, Kyoichi Tuzuki
    • Total Pages
      143
    • Publisher
      Shichosha
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Book] フランスロマネスクを巡る旅2004

    • Author(s)
      木俣元一
    • Total Pages
      159
    • Publisher
      新潮社
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Book] Romanesque Art in France2004

    • Author(s)
      Motokazu Kimata, Yoshifumi Nakamura
    • Total Pages
      159
    • Publisher
      Shichosha
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より

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Published: 2006-07-11  

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