Before his death in 2002, Michael Camille was Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago. His books include Image on the Edge (Reaktion, 1992), Mirror in Parchment (Reaktion, 1998) and The Gothic Idol: Ideology and Image-Making in Medieval Art (1989).
a handsome, entertaining account of the peculiar fashion for
grotesque, obscene and humorous presences on the margins of
medieval illuminateed manuscripts.
*Times Higher Education*
If the study of medieval art is not to remain an esoteric and
elitist discipline then more books like this must be written.
*Burlington Magazine*
Camille’s polymathic essays undoubtedly will provoke such studies
and will expand the field of questions we ask . . . and in this he
will have made a valuable contribution.
*Oxford Art Journal*
Image on the Edge remains an important and highly readable
exploration of an intriguing corner of medieval culture with the
power to open up a whole society and its mental worlds to modern
readers in an exhilarating, thought-provoking, and original
fashion.
*Folklore*
This is an interesting book that will make the reader examine
manuscripts and sculpture more carefully and understand the Middle
Ages more comprehensively . . . It is a book that will broaden your
idea of medieval art in an enjoyable way.
*Yorkshire Gazette and Herald*
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