Luke A Fidler
Biographic Data
| ID | 1479761 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luke A Fidler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luke A |
| FAMILY NAME | Fidler |
| SIGNATURE | FIDLER L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-1684-9679 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Harvesting the Image
Scenes of labor and technologies of calculation converge in the prefatory calendar cycle of a luxury psalter made in northern Germany during the second half of the twelfth century. Setting the manuscript in the context of eastward expansion along the Baltic rim, I argue that its program of images, text, and mise-en-page yields a previously undescribed set of formal procedures that underwrote the colonial work of high-medieval art. The distinctive…
Paratactic Boundaries
Epistolary Vessels
The Camel's Compromised Form
This article draws on recent trends in Marxist critique in order to analyze instances of compromised, misshapen, and deformed form in late medieval art. Produced in a range of media, these episodes exposed the contingent features of two formal enterprises crucial to the structure of the representational order: the moral exemplar and the nascent commodity. A reinvigorated mode of political formalism reveals the stakes of parsing an art of deflatio…
The Coercive Function of Early Medieval English Art
This article examines the spectacular representation of confinement in early medieval English sculpture in the context of poems, sermons, and translations. By identifying a series of features that early medieval spectators would have paid special attention to, it shows that sculptors used imprisoned and fugitive figures to craft a discourse about power in the absence of both a strong state and a regime of punitive incarceration. Compelling pictur…
The Praxis of the Tractrix
The Coercive Function of Early Medieval English Art
This article examines the spectacular representation of confinement in early medieval English sculpture in the context of poems, sermons, and translations. By identifying a series of features that early medieval spectators would have paid special attention to, it shows that sculptors used imprisoned and fugitive figures to craft a discourse about power in the absence of both a strong state and a regime of punitive incarceration. Compelling pictur…
The Praxis of the Tractrix
The Coercive Function of Early Medieval English Art
This article examines the spectacular representation of confinement in early medieval English sculpture in the context of poems, sermons, and translations. By identifying a series of features that early medieval spectators would have paid special attention to, it shows that sculptors used imprisoned and fugitive figures to craft a discourse about power in the absence of both a strong state and a regime of punitive incarceration. Compelling pictur…
The Camel's Compromised Form
This article draws on recent trends in Marxist critique in order to analyze instances of compromised, misshapen, and deformed form in late medieval art. Produced in a range of media, these episodes exposed the contingent features of two formal enterprises crucial to the structure of the representational order: the moral exemplar and the nascent commodity. A reinvigorated mode of political formalism reveals the stakes of parsing an art of deflatio…
Harvesting the Image
Scenes of labor and technologies of calculation converge in the prefatory calendar cycle of a luxury psalter made in northern Germany during the second half of the twelfth century. Setting the manuscript in the context of eastward expansion along the Baltic rim, I argue that its program of images, text, and mise-en-page yields a previously undescribed set of formal procedures that underwrote the colonial work of high-medieval art. The distinctive…
Paratactic Boundaries
Epistolary Vessels
Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Medieval Literature and History (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works)