Christ to Coke
Title | Christ to Coke PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Kemp |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 393 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0199581118 |
Explores the origins and evolution of eleven visual iconic images still found in today's culture, including Jesus, the Coke bottle, and Einstein's famous equation, e equals mc squared.
Icon and Word
Title | Icon and Word PDF eBook |
Author | Liz James |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Electronic books |
ISBN | 9781315199825 |
"This title was first published in 2003. Icons are traditionally regarded as timeless, motionless and eternal: windows onto Heaven. But it is not enough to simply wonder at their unchanging portrayal of divinity. How did they work? What did Byzantine culture want icons for? In what ways did Byzantines conceive these images as more meaningful and more powerful than simply pictures? What was the nature of the divinity of icons? "Icon and Word" brings together the work of a group of scholars to re-examine these notions. The resulting papers demonstrate the dynamism of the image in the medieval world. They explore not just what an icon is, but how it functions in different contexts, periods and cultures, and look at images in a broad range of media, in addition to the traditional format of painted panels: ivory carvings, manuscript illuminations and monumental wall paintings. Some of the papers engage directly with an object or group of objects to ask questions about the power and significance of icons in a range of different cultural contexts - Rome, Cairo, the Medieval West and Byzantium. Others look specifically at the nature of the Byzantine icon within its own society, above all in the years after the Iconoclast Dispute, a dispute that established the place of icons within Orthodox religion forever. "Icon and Word" discovers the power and significance of icons, and why they mattered so much in Byzantium that the Empire was in uproar for over a century."--Provided by publisher.
The Image, the Icon, and the Covenant
Title | The Image, the Icon, and the Covenant PDF eBook |
Author | Saḥar Khalīfah |
Publisher | |
Pages | 183 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9789774166068 |
Icon and Word
Title | Icon and Word PDF eBook |
Author | Lecturer in the History of Art at the School of European Studies Liz James |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | |
Release | 2017-12-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781138711402 |
This title was first published in 2003. Icons are traditionally regarded as timeless, motionless and eternal: windows onto Heaven. But it is not enough to simply wonder at their unchanging portrayal of divinity. How did they work? What did Byzantine culture want icons for? In what ways did Byzantines conceive these images as more meaningful and more powerful than simply pictures? What was the nature of the divinity of icons? "Icon and Word" brings together the work of a group of scholars to re-examine these notions. The resulting papers demonstrate the dynamism of the image in the medieval world. They explore not just what an icon is, but how it functions in different contexts, periods and cultures, and look at images in a broad range of media, in addition to the traditional format of painted panels: ivory carvings, manuscript illuminations and monumental wall paintings. Some of the papers engage directly with an object or group of objects to ask questions about the power and significance of icons in a range of different cultural contexts - Rome, Cairo, the Medieval West and Byzantium. Others look specifically at the nature of the Byzantine icon within its own society, above all in the years after the Iconoclast Dispute, a dispute that established the place of icons within Orthodox religion forever. "Icon and Word" discovers the power and significance of icons, and why they mattered so much in Byzantium that the Empire was in uproar for over a century.
Image, Icon, Economy
Title | Image, Icon, Economy PDF eBook |
Author | Marie-José Mondzain |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780804741019 |
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.
The Icon, Image of the Invisible
Title | The Icon, Image of the Invisible PDF eBook |
Author | Egon Sendler |
Publisher | |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
A comprehensive study of the theology of the Icon and its history, the aesthetics of the Icon and its structures, and the techniques and steps to paint an Icon, this book contains more than 100 color and black-and-white photos and a similar number of drawings which show the technical details and preparations of painting an Icon, from pigment colors to selection of wood.
Icon Gazing and Sacred Image Meditation
Title | Icon Gazing and Sacred Image Meditation PDF eBook |
Author | John Stangle |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 2017-03-14 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1365824616 |
Enter into an ancient method of meditation and prayer using sacred icons and sacred images as has been done since the beginning of the Christian Church. Icons and sacred images are said to be, -windows into heaven-.