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The sensual icon : Space, ritual, and the senses in Byzantium

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სულხან-საბას დარბაზი / Sulkhan-Saba Reading Hall 704.9482 P 41 500000007944 სულხან-საბას დარბაზი / Sulkhan-Saba Reading Hall Available -

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  • ISBN: 9780271035833 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0271035846 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780271035840 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: xiv, 325 pages : illustrations (some col.) ; 27 cm.
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  • Publisher: University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press , c2010.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Introduction -- 1. Imprinted images: eulogiai, magic, and incense -- 2. Icons of sound: Hagia Sophia and the Byzantine choros -- 3. Eeikon 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.
Summary, etc.: Today we take the word “icon” to mean “a sign,” or we equate it with portraits of Christ and the saints. In The Sensual Icon, Bissera Pentcheva demonstrates how icons originally manifested the presence of the Holy Spirit in matter. Christ was the ideal icon, emerging through the Incarnation; so, too, were the bodies of the stylites (column-saints) penetrated by the divine pneuma (breath or spirit), or the Eucharist, or the Justinianic space of Hagia Sophia filled with the reverberations of chants and the smoke of incense. Iconoclasm (726–843) challenged these Spirit-centered definitions of the icon, eventually restricting the word to mean only the lifeless imprint (typos) of Christ’s visual characteristics on matter. By the tenth century, mixed-media relief icons in gold, repoussé, enamel, and filigree offered a new paradigm. The sun’s rays or flickering candlelight, stirred by drafts of air and human breath, animated the rich surfaces of these objects; changing shadows endowed their eyes with life. The Byzantines called this spectacle of polymorphous appearance poikilia, that is, presence effects sensually experienced. These icons enabled viewers in Constantinople to detect animation in phenomenal changes rather than in pictorial or sculptural naturalism. “Liveliness,” as the goal of the Byzantine mixed-media relief icon, thus challenges the Renaissance ideal of “lifelikeness,” which dominated the Western artistic tradition before the arrival of the modern. Through a close examination of works of art and primary texts and language associated with these objects, and through her new photographs and film capturing their changing appearances, Pentcheva uncovers the icons’ power to transform the viewer from observer to participant, communing with the divine.
Subject: ლითონის ხატები -- ბიზანტიის იმპერია
Metal icons -- Byzantine Empire
ბიზანტიური ხატები
Icons, Byzantine
ხატები -- ბიზანტიის იმპერია -- ფსიქოლოგიური ასპექტები
Icons -- Byzantine Empire -- Psychological aspects
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