Sacred Shock
Subtitle: Framing Visual Experience in Byzantium
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: January 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780271024707
Subjects: Byzantine art; Religious subjects depicted in art; History - Medieval; Subjects & Themes - Religious; History - General; Medieval; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Art, Byzantine; Borders, Ornamental (Decorativ; Byzantine Empire; Christian art and symbolism; Composition (Art)
Description: "Art did not exist in Byzantium. As Glenn Peers explains in Sacred Shock, there were, instead, a variety of devotional objects - pectoral crosses, church mosaics, icons, and illuminated manuscripts - regarded as infused with divine presence and used in religious practices. What concerns Peers is the means by which the relationship between the divine and the human was made manifest through crafted, material objects."--Jacket.