Description:
A symposium was held at the French national library in 2019 as a part of the exhibition "Make it New. Carte blanche à Jan Dibbets", which compared the Raban Maur?s Louange à la sainte croix figurative poems with a set of works by conceptual, minimalist and Land Art artists. In the wake of this symposium, this book aims to offer cross readings of both periods: it questions how contemporary artists and art historians perceive medieval art and, vice versa, the way in which medieval art historians understand the echoes of medieval artistic creation and aesthetics in contemporary art.00How and why did medieval art, and particularly art of the early Middle Ages, stimulate contemporary creation since the 1950s? What did it bring to it? What inspiration did contemporary artists draw from medieval art in terms of figures, colors, arrangement of space, geometry and rhythm? In what way has this look nourished their reflection on the formats and the functioning of letters and writing, semiosis, mimesis or ornament? In what extent did the notions of authorship and performativity play a role in both periods?00Rather than focusing on a "medievalism of quotation" or a theoretical approach of images which have already given rise to comparative readings, the papers are organized around three main topics: authority, sign and mathematics, and performance. Taking a conceptual as well as aesthetic approach, they are based on the artists? works and writings