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The Sensual Icon: Space, Ritual, and the Senses in Byzantium
by Bissera V. Pentcheva
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The Sensual Icon Space Ritual and the Senses in The Sensual Icon needs and deserves a discussion of its attempt to link icon aesthetics and icon politics” —Hans Belting “Bissera Pentchevas stimulating The Sensual Icon Space Ritual and the Senses in Byzantium functions on the cutting edge of art historical method drawing not only on recent trends in the study of visual and material culture but also on anthropology and film theory The Sensual Icon Space Ritual and the Senses in Space Ritual and the Senses in Byzantium Bissera V Pentcheva “ The Sensual Icon is a major new contribution to Byzantine art history and will be an important turning point in our understanding of the aesthetics and reception of the icon in Byzantium” —Henry Maguire The Johns Hopkins University The Sensual Icon Space Ritual and the Senses in The Sensual Icon Space Ritual and the Senses in Byzantium Bissera V Pentcheva 9780271035833 Books The Sensual Icon Stanford University Bissera Pentcheva Sunrays moving across the rich surfaces of these objects infused them with movement of highlights and shadows while the shimmer of flickering candlelights stirred by drafts of air endowed the images with life The Byzantines called the spectacle of polymorphous appearances – poikilia – phenomenal effects sensually experienced The sensual icon space ritual and the senses in Byzantium Get this from a library The sensual icon space ritual and the senses in Byzantium Bissera V Pentcheva 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 The sensual icon space ritual and the senses in Byzantium The icons circular poetics the charis of choros 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 eleventhtwelfth centuries Summary The Sensual Icon Space Ritual and the Senses in Byzantium The Sensual Icon is a major new contribution to Byzantine art history and will be an important turning point in our understanding of the aesthetics and reception of the icon in Byzantium” —Henry Maguire The Johns Hopkins University Bissera Pentcheva The Sensual Icon Space Ritual and Bissera Pentcheva The Sensual Icon Space Ritual and the Senses in ity Park PA Pennsylvania State University Press 2014 Paper Pp xv 327 82 Project MUSE The Sensual Icon Space Ritual and the The Sensual Icon Space Ritual and the Senses in Byzantium by Bissera V Pentcheva Robin Cormack The Sensual Icon Space The trouble with her thesis is that it may be true that a gold or ivory Byzantine icon is more expensive and luxurious but that does not mean it is any the more or less effective in its visual impact on the faithful The sensual icon space ritual and the senses in Byzantium Icons Byzantine Icons — Byzantine Empire — Psychological aspects Summary Today we take the word icon to mean a sign or we equate it with portaits of Christ and the saints In The Sensual Icon Bissera Pentcheva demonstrates how icons originally manifested the presence of the Holy Spirit in matter
