Contesting the logic of painting : art and understanding in eleventh-century Byzantium /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Barber, Charles, 1964-
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.
Subject:	Icons, Byzantine. Image (Theology) Icons, Byzantine. Image (Theology) Byzantine Empire -- Church history. Byzantine Empire. Electronic books. Church history.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11218394

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ISBN:	9789047431619 9047431618 9789004162716 9004162712 1281939897 9781281939890 9786611939892 661193989X
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-175) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Drawing on philosophical and theological writings produced in eleventh-century Byzantium, this book offers a reading of the icon and Byzantine aesthetics that expands our understanding of these topics.
Other form:	Print version: Barber, Charles, 1964- Contesting the logic of painting. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007
Standard no.:	10.1163/ej.9789004162716.i-206

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Chapter One The Synodikon of Orthodoxy and the Ground of Painting; Chapter Two Symeon the New Theologian: Seeing Beyond Painting; Chapter Three Michael Psellos: Seeing Through Painting; Chapter Four Eustratios of Nicaea and the Constraints of Theology; Chapter Five Leo of Chalcedon, Euthymios Zigabenos and the Return to the Past; Afterword; Bibliography; Index; Illustrations.

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