Transcultural imaginations of the sacred / Margit Kern, Klaus Krüger (Eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kern, Margit, editor.

Krüger, Klaus, editor.

Series:

Berliner Schriften zur Kunst

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious art.

Christian art and symbolism.

Other (Philosophy).

Space and time.

Physical Description:

320 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Paderborn : Verlag Wilhelm Fink, [2019].

Contents:

Introduction : transcultural imaginations of the sacred. Changing perceptions of alterity in processes of transcultural negotiation / Margit Kern

"Americana Thebaida" : a glocal topology / Julia Kloss-Weber

The tipping point in mimesis : processes of transcultural negotiation in the sculpture of the Paraquarian Jesuit missions / Amrei Buchholz

Cracks and clefts : dealing with the pigments of Our Lady of Copacabana / Gabriela Siracusano

Conflict and negotiation in transcultural processes in colonial Brazil, or : does the Holy Spirit have a face? / Jens Baumgarten

Conceptions of space in the missionary periodical Der Neue Welt-Bott / Ira Oppermann

The holy man's cave : Franciscan permeations of time and space, ca. 1300. / Amy L. Neff

Charismatic desert saints. Charisms as signifiers of the "other" in Thebaid cycles of the Italian tre- and quattrocento / Christine Ungruh

Borrowing figurative patterns : the meaning of the "Dormition of the Hermit" in fifteenth-century Florentine paintings / Alessandra Malquori

Aesthetics of resistance : the "unbelievable" idol, its life, and its dual death / Avinoam Shalem

Being like Jesus and Mary : the Jesuits, the polyglot Bible and other Antwerp print works at the Mughal Court / Ebba Koch

Seeing beyond form : western tableaux in Mughal painting as paradigms of the emperor's perfect vision / Alberto Saviello.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783770556304

3770556305

OCLC:

1111869149