The Orthodox icon and postmodern art critical reflections on the Christian image and its theology

"This study examines theories of postmodern visuality and representation and identifies concepts that resonate with Orthodox theology and iconography. C.A. Tsakiridou frees the Orthodox icon from iconological precepts that limit its aesthetic and expressive range. The book's key argument i...

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1. Verfasser: Tsakiridou, Cornelia A. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York, London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2025
Schriftenreihe:Routledge research in art and religion
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Zusammenfassung:"This study examines theories of postmodern visuality and representation and identifies concepts that resonate with Orthodox theology and iconography. C.A. Tsakiridou frees the Orthodox icon from iconological precepts that limit its aesthetic and expressive range. The book's key argument is that poststructuralist thought is not alien to Orthodox theology and iconography. Dissonance, liminality and ambiguity are essential for conveying the paradoxes of Christian faith and recognizing the hagiopneumatic vitality and openness of the Orthodox tradition. Perichoresis or coinherence, a concept in Patristic theology that defines the relationship between the three persons of the Holy Trinity and the two natures of Christ, acquires a feminine dimension in the person of the Theotokos. Like the ascetical concept of nepsis it has aesthetic implications. Intermedial qualities present in iconography, photography and cinema help explain how icons become hosts to transcendent realities and how their experience in Orthodox liturgy and devotion has anticipated and resolved the postmodern disorientation of visuality and representation. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, postmodernism, philosophy, theology, religion, and gender studies"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xii, 190 Seiten
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ISBN:9781032181134
978-1-032-18113-4
9781032209036
978-1-032-20903-6