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Imagining the divine : exploring art in religions of late antiquity across Eurasia / edited by Jaś Elsner and Rachel Wood.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Talking Religion (Workshops) (2017 : Oxford, England)
- Imagining the Divine (Conference) (2018 : Oxford, England)
- Series:
- Research publication (British Museum) ; no. 234.
- Research publication ; 234
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art and religion--Eurasia--History--To 1500--Congresses.
- Art and religion.
- Idols and images--Eurasia--History--To 1500--Congresses.
- Idols and images.
- Idols and images in art--Congresses.
- Idols and images in art.
- Art, Ancient--Eurasia--Congresses.
- Art, Ancient.
- Eurasia--Antiquities--Congresses.
- Eurasia.
- Antiquities.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings
- History
- Physical Description:
- 184 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm.
- Other Title:
- Exploring art in religions of late antiquity across Eurasia
- Place of Publication:
- London : The British Museum, [2021]
- Contents:
- The materiality of the divine : aniconism, iconoclasm and iconography / Salvatore Settis, with a response .from Maria Lidova
- Bodies, bases and borders : framing the divine in Greco-Roman antiquity / Verity Platt, with a response from Dominic Dalglish
- Comparing material texts / Katherine Cross
- Kufa and Kells : the illuminated word as sign and presence in the seventh-ninth centuries / Benjamin C. Tilghman and Umberto Bongianino
- The Jewish image of God in late antiquity / Martin Goodman, with a response from Hindy Najman and ]aś Elsner
- Empire and faith : the heterotopian space of the Franks Casket / Catherine E. Karkov, with a response from Katherine Cross
- Buddhapada : the enlightened being and the limits of representation at Amaravati / Jaś Elsner, with a response from Alice Casalini
- From Serapis to Christ to the Caliph : faces as a re-appropriation of the past / Ivan Foletti and Katharina Meinecke, with a response .from Nadia Ali
- Uses of decorated silver plate in imperial Rome and Sasanian Iran / Richard Hobbs, with a response from Rachel Wood
- Material religion in comparative perspective : how different is BCE from CE? / Christoph Uehlinger, with a response from Stefanie Lenk.
- Notes:
- "The University of Oxford and the British Museum invited a number of distinguished speakers from across the world to speak at a series of lectures and seminars in the course of 2017, and held a major conference in January 2018 ; the papers in this volume have been drawn from these sources."--Page 1.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780861592340
- 0861592344
- OCLC:
- 1242750283
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