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Sacred shock : framing visual experience in Byzantium / Glenn Peers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peers, Glenn.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Byzantine.
- Christian art and symbolism--Byzantine Empire.
- Christian art and symbolism.
- Composition (Art).
- Borders, Ornamental (Decorative arts)--Byzantine Empire.
- Borders, Ornamental (Decorative arts).
- Picture frames and framing--Byzantine Empire.
- Picture frames and framing.
- Byzantine Empire.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 188 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- Art Did Not Exist in Byzantium. As Glenn Peers explains in Sacred Shock, there were, instead, a variety of devotional objects-pectoral crosses, church mosaics, icons, and illuminated manuscripts-regarded as infused with divine presence and used in religious practices. What concerns Peers in this provocative book is the means by which the relationship between the divine and the human was made manifest through crafted, material objects.
- According to Peers, the devotional objects of Byzantium should be understood as having a detail or place that plays a large part in "framing" their meaning for viewers. After an insightful discussion of pectoral crosses, Peers examines a series of case studies, which includes the depiction of the blood of Christ in the Chludov Psalter, a fourteenth-century icon of Saint George, and the Mandylion, a famous relic thought to preserve the traces of Christ's face.
- Sacred Shock combines fine scholarship with close analysis of Byzantine devotional objects and discussion of issues of broad importance to the study of visual experience. It is significant as both an exploration of art-historical methodology and a contribution to our understanding of the medieval world.
- Contents:
- The great age of the frame
- The crucifixion contained and containing
- The bloody page in the Chludov Psalter
- Gregory of Nazianzus as twelfth-century paradigm
- Saint George and his iconic bodies
- Silver cladding and the assimilation of bodies and faces
- Framing the body.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [135]-184) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0271024704
- OCLC:
- 54686308
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