Contesting the logic of painting : art and understanding in eleventh-century Byzantium /
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| Author / Creator: | Barber, Charles, 1964- |
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 179 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Visualising the Middle Ages, 1874-0448 ; v. 2 Visualising the Middle Ages ; v. 2. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11218394 |
| Summary: | Studies of the icon in Byzantium have tended to focus on the iconoclastic era of the eighth- and ninth-centuries. This study shows that discussion of the icon was far from settled by this lengthy dispute. While the theory of the icon in Byzantium was governed by a logical understanding that had limited painting to the visible alone, the four authors addressed in this book struggled with this constraint. Symeon the New Theologian, driven by a desire for divine vision, chose, effectively, to disregard the icon. Michael Psellos used a profound neoplatonism to examine the relationship between an icon and miracles. Eustratios of Nicaea followed the logic of painting to the point at which he could clarify a distinction between painting from theology. Leo of Chalcedon attempted to describe a formal presence in the divine portrait of Christ. All told, these authors open perspectives on the icon that enrich and expand our own modernist understanding of this crucial medium. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 179 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-175) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789047431619 9047431618 9789004162716 9004162712 1281939897 9781281939890 9786611939892 661193989X |
| ISSN: | 1874-0448 ; |