Image, Icon, Economy: The Byzantine Origins of the Contemporary Imaginary

ISBN-13: 9780804741002 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 280 str.

Marie-Jose Mondzain; Rico Franses

Opis

This book argues that the extraordinary force of the image in contemporary life-the contemporary imaginary-can be traced back to the Byzantine iconoclastic controversy of the eighth and ninth centuries.

O autorze

Marie-José Mondzain is Director of Studies at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris.