Tradition and Transformation in Christian Art: The Transcultural Icon

ISBN-13: 9781032178615 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 252 str.

C. a. Tsakiridou

Opis

This book approaches tradition and transculturality in religious art from an Orthodox perspective that defines tradition as a dynamic field of exchanges and synergies between iconographic types and their variants. Relying on a new ontology of iconographic types, it explores one of the most significant ascetical and eschatological Christian image

Spis treści

List of Figures

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Tradition and Iconographic Types

Chapter 3: Iconicity and Eschatology

Chapter 4: Ascetics in Prison

Chapter 5: Sinaitic and Franciscan Theophanies

Chapter 6: Byzantine Encounters with the Dead Christ

Chapter 7: The Penitential Imagination

Chapter 8: The King of Glory in Italy

Chapter 9: Missionary Masses

Chapter 10: The Mystical Colony

Chapter 11: New Mexican Acheiropoietai

Chapter 12: The Greek Icon

Epilogue

Bibliography

O autorze

C.A. Tsakiridou is Professor in the Philosophy Department, La Salle University. She specializes in the aesthetics of the visual arts, metaphysics, and Orthodox theology.