Tradition and transformation in Christian art : the transcultural icon / C.A. Tsakiridou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tsakiridou, Cornelia A., author.

Series:

Routledge research in art and religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and art.

Man of Sorrows (Art).

Physical Description:

xii, 229 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

Tradition and Transformation in Christian Art approaches tradition and transculturality in religious art from an Orthodox perspective that defines tradition as a dynamic field of exchanges and synergies between iconographic types and their variants. Relying on a new ontology of iconographic types, it explores one of the most significant ascetical and eschatological Christian images, the King of Glory (Man of Sorrows). This icon of the dead-living Christ originated in Byzantium, migrated west, and was promoted in the New World by Franciscan and Dominican missions. Themes include tensions between Byzantine and Latin spiritualities of penance and salvation, the participation of the body and gender in deification, and the theological plasticity of the Christian imaginary. Primitivist tendencies in Christian eschatology and modernism place avant-garde interest in New Mexican santos and Greek icons in tradition.

Contents:

Tradition and iconographic types

Iconicity and eschatology

Ascetics in prison

Sinaitic and Franciscan theophanies

Byzantine encounters with the dead Christ

The penitential imagination

The King of Glory in Italy

Missionary masses

The mystical colony

New Mexican acheiropoietai

The Greek icon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Tsakiridou, Cornelia A. Tradition and transformation in Christian art.

ISBN:

9780815374183

0815374186

OCLC:

1029791345