The Centre as Margin. Eccentric Perspectives on Art is a multi-authored
volume of collected essays that answer the challenge of thinking Art
History, and the Arts in a broader sense, from a liminal point of view.
Its main goal is thus to discuss the margin from the centre - drawing on
its concomitance within study themes and subjects, ontological and
epistemological positions, or research methodologies themselves.
Marginality, eccentricity, liminality, and superfluity are all part of a
dynamic relationship between centre and margin(s) that will be
approached and discussed, from the point of view of disciplines as
different and as close as art history, philosophy, literature and
design, from medieval to contemporary art.
Resulting from recent research developed from the privileged viewpoint
offered by the margin, this volume brings together the contributions of
young researchers along with the work of career scholars. Likewise, it
does not obey a traditional or a rigid diachronic structure, being
rather organized in three major parts that organically articulate the
different essays. Within each of these parts in which the book is
divided, papers are sometimes organized according to their timeframes,
providing the reader with an encompassing (though not encyclopedic)
overview of the common ground over which the various artistic
disciplines build their methodological, theoretical, and thematic
centers and margins. The intended eccentricity of this volume - and the
original essays herein presented - should provide researchers, scholars,
students, artists, curators, and the general reader interested in art
with a refreshing approach to its various scientific strands.
