Multiple impressions: Christ in the winepress and the semiotics of the printed image

• Autores: Elina Gertsman
• Localización: Art history: journal of the Association of Art Historians, ISSN 0141-6790, Vol. 36, Nº. 2 (April), 2013, págs. 310-337
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This essay focuses on the late fifteenth-century Christ in the Winepress woodcut now in the collection of Frankfurt Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, arguing that this print constructs its meaning through a chain of multiple impressions -visual, physical, spiritual, and affective. In discussing mimetic possibilities offered by the practices of image-, meaning-, and memory-making specific to the medium of the woodcut, the essay suggests that the Christ in the Winepress print is a meta-image that comments on itself: on its content; on its mode of production; and on its reception. Finally, in drawing attention to the semiotic structures of such a print, the essay explores somatosensory implications of these multiple imperssions, which result in the embodied processes of seeing.