The Gothic Screen
February 05, 2013
http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item6878510/?site_locale=en_US The Gothic Screen: Space, Sculpture, and Community in the Cathedrals of France and Germany, ca.1200–1400…
Jacqueline E. Jung
Jacqueline Jung, who joined Yale's History of Art department in spring 2007 after teaching at the University of California-Berkeley (2003-06) and Middlebury College (2002-03), specializes in the art and architecture of the medieval West, with an emphasis on the figural sculpture of Gothic Germany and France. Her teaching encompasses the history of medieval sculpture, images of death and apocalypse, art and ritual in the Middle Ages, Gothic cathedrals, medieval image-theory, medieval memory practices, monumental narrative arts, the body as medium in medieval art and culpture, and interrelations between art and visionary experience. During the summers of 2007 and 2008 she investigated the latter topic as a participant in a SIAS seminar called The Vision Thing: Studying Divine Intervention, hosted by the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford, CA) and the Collegium Budapest (Hungary). Professor Jung completed her graduate studies in 2002 at Columbia University, with a dissertation on the ritual, spatial, and iconographic dimensions of the thirteenth-century choir screen of Naumburg Cathedral. Her first book, The Gothic Screen: Space, Sculpture, and Community in the Cathedrals of France and Germany, ca. 1200-1400 (New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in December 2012), expands on that project to incorporate surviving screens and sculptural fragments from Bourges, Chartres, Paris, Mainz, Strasbourg, and elsewhere. The book has been awarded the Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding Publication by a junior faculty member in the Humanities at Yale University. An early article on choir screens, published in the Art Bulletin in 2000, won the Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize for an especially distinguished article by a younger scholar. In addition to her own scholarship, Professor Jung has translated several seminal art-historical studies from German, most notably Aloïs Riegl’s Historical Grammar of the Visual Arts (Zone, 2004). While a Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin in spring 2006, she began to work on various facets of sensory, physical, and emotional experience and expression in the figural arts of later medieval Germany. She is presently developing this research into a new book with the working title Movement, Space, and Body: The Kinetics of Gothic Sculpture.
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