Interspaces between word, gaze and touch
Subtitle: the Bible and the visual medium in the Middle Ages : collected essays on 'Noli me tangere', the woman with the Haemorrhage, the head of John the Baptist
By: Barbara Baert
Series: Annua nuntia Lovaniensia -- 62; Annua nuntia Lovaniensia -- 62.
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leuven; Walpole, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9789042923997
Subjects: Art; Christian art and symbolism; Touch; Appearances; Women; Women in the Bible; Christianity
Other titles: Bible and the visual medium in the Middle Ages : collected essays on 'Noli me tangere', the woman with the Haemorrhage, the head of John the Baptist
Description: "The basic focus which this book is concerned with, a strong new pact has been forged between Theology and Art History. Carefully calibrated methodologies have been developed to unite the world of the word and the world of the visual medium as a truly interdisciplinary research object. Historical-critical exegesis, church history, iconology and cultural anthropology together provide foundational support for knowledge of broader visual themes, and the functions of works of art. In their interplay they become the gateway to the "Interspaces of word, gaze and touch"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-121).
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Reimund Bieringer; title: Introduction: The pact between word and image; title: Chapter I. "Do not hold on to me" or The gaze in the garden: body and embodiment in Noli me tangere (John 20:17); title: Chapter II. "Who touched my clothes?": the healing of the woman with the haemorrhage (Marc 5:30); title: Chapter III. "He must increase, but I must decrease": on the spiritual and pictorial intertwining between the Johannesschüssel and the Vera Icon (John 3:30); title: Epilogue. Interspaces between word, gaze and touch; title: Bibliography; title: Illustrations.