Photographs of the ust of the Highway? Georgiana Goddard King Way of Saint James

Contemporaneity: historical presence in visual culture

Annemarie Iker

关键词: Spain;    medieval art and architecture;    photography;    historiography;    agency;    Georgiana Goddard King;    Arthur Kingsley Porter;    Santiago de Compostela;   

DOI  :  10.5195/contemp.2016.149

学科分类：农业科学（综合）

来源: University of Pittsburgh * University Library System

【 摘 要 】

This article explores the use of photography in American art historian Georgiana Goddard King Way of Saint James (1920), a genre-defying book on the Camino de Santiago that intertwines art history with anthropology, literature, history, geography, and narrative. Despite King's groundbreaking scholarship on medieval Spain her legacy has been overshadowed by subsequent art historians, chief among them Arthur Kingsley Porter. Here, it is suggested that King emphasis on personal experiences of the pilgrimageoth historical and contemporaryiminished the value of her work, especially when compared with Porter supposedly bjective,?cientific?studies. These methodological differences, visually manifest in King and Porter respective approaches to photographic evidence, have implications for medieval, historiographic, and feminist art historical inquiries.

【 授权许可】

CC BY