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The glossary explores and presents seventy essential and critical terms that define the textile medium as a specific form, material, technique and metaphor from antiquity to the present. It collects contributions of inter- national specialists in the field. Each entry discusses one illustrated object which epitomizes the main concepts related to one of the volume’s keywords – from “absorption” and “abstraction” to “weaving” and “wool”. The glossary is addressed to schol- ars and students of art and architectural history and related fields as well as to artists and curators. It offers a new point of reference and departure for future research on the textile medium as such.

At their most basic level, liturgical vestments and textiles serve to differentiate the sacred and thehe profane, the clergy and the laity. Not only are they sacred objects in their own right, being consecrated to a holy use, but they point beyond themselves to historical parallels – to events in the life of Christ or to the furnishings of the Jerusalem Temple – or to anagogical symbolism of the heavenly graces.

Michel Foucault entwarf 1968 eine Vielzahl von textilen Metaphern, um das Ende der Repräsentation im Sinne eines zerreißenden Schleiers zu verkünden. Die Texte im vorliegenden Band thematisieren unterschiedliche Dimensionen vom Bild-Riss, indem sie sich kulturtheoretisch, kunst- und bildwissenschaftlich, wie auch im Hinblick auf die historischen Kontexte der Bilder mit dem Problem der Desintegration und Auflösung der Denk- und Bildstrukturen auseinandersetzen.