The Sensual Icon: Space, Ritual, and the Senses in Byzantium
Author:   Bissera V. Pentcheva (Associate Professor, Stanford University)
Publisher:   Pennsylvania State University Press
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9780271035833


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   15 December 2013
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Bissera V. Pentcheva (Associate Professor, Stanford University)
Publisher:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Imprint:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 19.10cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.134kg
ISBN:  

9780271035833


ISBN 10:   0271035838
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   15 December 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Imprinted Images: Eulogiai, Magic, and Incense 2. Icons of Sound: Hagia Sophia and the Byzantine Choros 3. Eikon and Identity: The Rise of the Relief Icon in Iconophile Thought 4. The Imprint of Life: Enamel in Byzantium 5. Transformative Vision: Allegory, Poikilia, and Pathema 6. The Icon’s Circular Poetics: The Charis of Choros 7. 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 Bibliography Index

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The Sensual Icon is a dazzling book, rich in content, brilliant in argumentation, and impressively original. Tracing cross-currents of production, perception, and thinking about the sacred icon within a firm historical context, it proposes a radical reconceptualization of the major form of Byzantine artistic expression. A work of flawless scholarship and spirited imagination, The Sensual Icon animates a remarkable artistic legacy and the historical and theological forces that engendered it. Like Hans Belting s Likeness and Presence, it is destined to guide a whole generation s view of medieval art. Herbert L. Kessler, The Johns Hopkins University


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Bissera V. Pentcheva is Associate Professor of Art History at Stanford University. She is the author of Icons and Power: The Mother of God in Byzantium (Penn State, 2006).

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