The Unassembled Grammar of the Drawing in the Era of Reform
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Shira Brisman [1]
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[1] University of Wisconsin–Madison
University of Wisconsin–Madison
City of Madison, Estados Unidos
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- Localización: Art history: journal of the Association of Art Historians, ISSN 0141-6790, Vol. 40, Nº. 2, 2017 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Art and Religious Reform in Early Modern Europe), págs. 312-335
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
A study is a subcategory of drawing in which an artist tests elements that may not be worked out with the full clarity of a finalized composition. When such sketches depict fragments of bodies or forms in freefall with no contextualizing ground, they may, in hindsight, and with an awareness of the fate representations suffered during episodes of iconoclasm, look like depictions of images that have been attacked. Yet understanding these drawings as part of the process of making rather than as reminders of dismantlement encourages an appreciation to the range of theological possibilities afforded by views of figures that are incomplete or that fail to follow laws of pictorial orientation. This essay considers the syntactical laxity found in such studies against the scrutiny of biblical grammar publicly exercised by Martin Luther and Andreas Karlstadt, for whom word order, conjunctions and modifiers were essential to understanding the meaning of scripture.
