The sensual icon
Subtitle: space, ritual, and the senses in Byzantium
By: Bissera Pentcheva.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780271035840
Subjects: Metal icons -- Byzantine Empire; Icons, Byzantine; Icons -- Byzantine Empire -- Psychological aspects
Other titles: Ritual, space, and the senses in Byzantium
Description: "Explores the Byzantine aesthetic of fugitive appearances by placing and filming art objects in spaces of changing light, and by uncovering the shifting appearances expressed in poetry, descriptions of art, and liturgical performance"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Imprinted images : eulogiai, magic, and incense; title: Icons of sound : Hagia Sophia and the Byzantine choros; title: Eeikon and identity : the rise of the relief icon in iconophile thought; title: The imprint of life : enamel in Byzantium; title: Transformative vision : allegory, poikilia, and pathema; title: The icon's circular poetics : the charis of choros; title: Inspirited icons, animated statues, and Komnenian iconoclasm; title: Epilogue. The future of the past; title: Appendix 1. The icons in the monastic inventories of the eleventh and twelfth centuries; title: Appendix 2. Byzantine enamel icons and the West, eleventh-twelfth centuries.