Icon and word : the power of images in Byzantium : studies presented to Robin Cormack

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Icon and word : the power of images in Byzantium : studies presented to Robin Cormack

edited by Antony Eastmond and Liz James

Ashgate, c2003

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Power of images in Byzantium

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Essays by doctoral students of Robin Cormack and a bibliography of Robin Cormack's published works

Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

Icons are traditionally regarded as timeless, motionless and eternal: windows onto Heaven. But it is not enough to simply wonder at their unchanging portrayal of divinity. How did they work? What did Byzantine culture want icons for? In what ways did Byzantines conceive these images as more meaningful and more powerful than simply pictures? What was the nature of the divinity of icons? "Icon and Word" brings together the work of a group of scholars to re-examine these notions. The resulting papers demonstrate the dynamism of the image in the medieval world. They explore not just what an icon is, but how it functions in different contexts, periods and cultures, and look at images in a broad range of media, in addition to the traditional format of painted panels: ivory carvings, manuscript illuminations and monumental wall paintings. Some of the papers engage directly with an object or group of objects to ask questions about the power and significance of icons in a range of different cultural contexts - Rome, Cairo, the Medieval West and Byzantium. Others look specifically at the nature of the Byzantine icon within its own society, above all in the years after the Iconoclast Dispute, a dispute that established the place of icons within Orthodox religion forever. "Icon and Word" discovers the power and significance of icons, and why they mattered so much in Byzantium that the Empire was in uproar for over a century.

目次

  • Icons and Meaning: Icon, idol, fetish and totem, Annabel Wharton
  • When all that is gold does not glitter - on the strange history of looking at Byzantine art, Rico Franses
  • Icon and portrait in the trial of Symeon the New Theologian, Charles Barber
  • The power of inscriptions and the trouble with texts, Karen Boston
  • Art and lies - text, image and imagination in the medieval world, Liz James
  • Between icon and idol - the uncertainty of imperial images, Antony Eastmond
  • The icon is dead, long live the icon - the holy image in the Renaissance, Robert Maniura
  • Picturing New Jerusalem, John Wilkinson. Icons in Context: Bleeding icons, Maria Vassilaki
  • Images of the Mother of God in early medieval Rome, John Osborne
  • Iconic images of children in the church of St Demetrios, Thessaloniki, Cecily Hennessy
  • The "statuesque Hodegetria" and the limitations of the sculpted icon, John Hanson
  • The migrating image - uses and abuses of Byzantine icons in Western Europe, Barbara Zeitler
  • For the salvation of a woman's soul - an icon of St Michael described within a medieval Coptic context, Lucy-Anne Hunt
  • Archimedes into icon - forging an image of Byzantium, John Lowden
  • The purple thread of the flesh - the theological connotations of a narrative iconographic element in Byzantine images of the Annunciation, Maria Evangelou.

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