Animism, Materiality, and Museums : How Do Byzantine Things Feel?

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Peers, Glenn, 1962- [VerfasserIn]

Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Collection Development, Cultural Heritage, and Digital HumanitiesPublisher: [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Arc Humanities Press, 2021Description: 1 Online-Ressource (167 p.)ISBN:

9781942401742
9781942401735

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709.0214 23/eng/20230216

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Summary: Among our most cherished modern assumptions is our distance from the material world we claim to love or, alternately, to dominate and own. As both devotional tool and art object, the Byzantine icon is rendered complicit in this distancing. According to well-established theological and scholarly explanations, the icon is a window onto the divine: it focuses and directs our minds to a higher understanding of God and saints. Despite their material richness, icons are understood to efface their own materiality, thereby enabling us to do the same. That the privileged relation of image to God is based on its capacity for material self-effacement is the basis for all theology of the icon and all art-historical description. It gets more complicated than this definition, to be sure, but the icon is positioned in this way in most straightforward accounts, whether devotional or scholarly. My position is to undermine the transcendentalizing determination of modern theology and aesthetics, and to lean very heavily on the materiality of these things to the point of allowing them, to the degree I can, a voice and life of their ownPPN: PPN: 1778425372Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB

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