ARH 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Reliquary, Mirror Neuron, Eucharist
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Explores the themes of the printmaker"s tools and sensorimotor processes. Woodcut yields center stage to the press, suggesting the translation of this iconography into print engenders an entirely different system of signification. Intimate mimesis between the medium and the subject matter. Christ in winepress appeared in manuscript illuminations, sculpture, stained glass, tapestries, wall paintings, and prints. Theme relates to the mystic mill suggests christ"s sacrificial body - both the mill and the milled grain. Woodcut draws unmistakable parallels between the wine press and the printing press - between ink and blood. A female body on a manuscript page never truly virginal. Wood: a porous, flexible, organic substance the equivalence of which to the body was clearly articulated in both scientific and devotional contexts. Mimic and transform into flesh wood became very popular. Woodcut - relief technique cut away at negative surfaces. What is the wood used to make a woodcut print.
