Images in the Margins

Name: Images in the Margins
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SKU: 9780892369829
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By Margot Nishimura

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Summary

Images in the Margins explores the whimsical and often bizarre marginalia found in Gothic-era English, French, and Italian manuscripts. The book, part of the Medieval Imagination series, draws on stunning illuminations from the J. Paul Getty Museum and the British Library to reveal how these playful, absurd, and satirical images served as social commentary and amusement for medieval readers. Featuring vivid, full-colour details, it offers an accessible and engaging look at the medieval world’s creativity.
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This book is ideal for enthusiasts of medieval art, manuscript illumination, and cultural history, as well as readers interested in visual satire and the playful creativity of the Middle Ages.

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.

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Images in the Margins is the third volume in the popular Medieval Imagination series of small, affordable books that draw on manuscript illumination from 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 is found in the borders of English, French, and Italian manuscripts from the Gothic era. Unpredictable, topical, and often irreverent, much like the New Yorker cartoons of today, marginalia—images drawn in the margins of manuscripts—provided a source of satire, serious social observation, and amusement for medieval readers.

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

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Harry Bliss, cover artist for the New Yorker, praises the book as "a truly unique and sublime visual study into medieval artistry - awe-inspiring in its detail and imagination." Reference and Research Book News highlights it as "one of a series of well-produced books showcasing the Getty's collections." Lincoln County News calls the reproductions "intricate and lovely puzzles for the grown-up eyeball/mind," while Comitatus appreciates its focus on the role of marginalia within manuscripts.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780892369829

Publisher: Getty Trust Publications

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 06 October 2009

Country: United States

Imprint: J. Paul Getty Museum

Illustration: 84 color illus.

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 195.0mm

Height: 222.0mm

Weight: 468g

Pages: 96

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About the Author

Margot McIlwain Nishimura teaches the history of medieval art at the Rhode Island School of Design. She was introduced to the study of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts as an undergraduate intern in the Department of Medieval Manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum.