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The sensual icon : space, ritual, and the senses in Byzantium / Bissera Pentcheva.
Fine Arts Library NK8436 .P46 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pentcheva, Bissera V.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Metal icons--Byzantine Empire.
- Metal icons.
- Icons, Byzantine.
- Icons--Byzantine Empire--Psychological aspects.
- Icons.
- Icons--Psychological aspects.
- Psychological aspects.
- Byzantine Empire.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 327 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
- Other Title:
- Ritual, space, and the senses in Byzantium
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010.
- Summary:
- "Explores the Byzantine aesthetic of fugitive appearances by placing and filming art objects in spaces of changing light, and by uncovering the shifting appearances expressed in poetry, descriptions of art, and liturgical performance"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Imprinted images : eulogiai, magic, and incense
- Icons of sound : Hagia Sophia and the Byzantine choros
- Eeikon and identity : the rise of the relief icon in iconophile thought
- The imprint of life : enamel in Byzantium
- Transformative vision : allegory, poikilia, and pathema
- The icon's circular poetics : the charis of choros
- Inspirited icons, animated statues, and Komnenian iconoclasm
- Epilogue. The future of the past
- Appendix 1. The icons in the monastic inventories of the eleventh and twelfth centuries
- Appendix 2. Byzantine enamel icons and the West, eleventh-twelfth centuries.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-312) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780271035840
- 0271035846
- 9780271035833
- 0271035838
- OCLC:
- 438054811
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