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Author: Marie-José Mondzain
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780804741019
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Marie-José Mondzain
Publisher: Cultural Memory in the Present
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780804741002
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Libby Saxton
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2020-09-25
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1474463177
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first detailed study of what filmic images can tell us about iconic photographs, No Power Without an Image reveals the multifaceted connections between seven celebrated photographs of political struggles, taken between 1936 and 1968, and cinema in all its forms. Moving from the 'paper cinema' of magazines via newsreels and film journals, to documentary, fiction and experimental films, this fascinating book draws on original archival research and multidisciplinary icon theory to explore new ways of thinking about the confluence of still and moving images.
Author: Alena Alexandrova
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Published: 2017-05-01
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0823274497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn recent decades curators and artists have shown a distinct interest in religion, its different traditions, manifestations in public life, gestures and images. Breaking Resemblance explores the complex relationship between contemporary art and religion by focusing on the ways artists re-work religious motifs as a means to reflect critically on our desire to believe in images, on the history of seeing them, and on their double power— iconic and political. It discusses a number of exhibitions that take religion as their central theme, and a selection of works by Bill Viola, Lawrence Malstaf, Victoria Reynolds, and Berlinde de Bruyckere—all of whom, in their respective ways and media, recycle religious motifs and iconography and whose works resonate with, or problematize the motif of, the true image.
Author: Kresimir Purgar
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Published: 2019-07-31
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 3839441358
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe proliferation of digital technology has changed our visual perception and the way we interpret terms such as 'representation', 'immersion', and 'virtuality'. Kresimir Purgar examines some of the topics fundamental to an understanding of the contemporary culture of images. The principal thesis of this volume is that we are witnessing the transitional period of images as not-representation-anymore and not-yet-immersion. Instead of just asking what images mean, we should ask ourselves what images are, how they appear, and what they do to us. The author proposes the comprehensive concept of "pictorial appearing" that takes into account phenomenological, semiotic, and art-historical perspectives on both old and new images.
Author: Stephanie Rumpza
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-03-31
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 100931789X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow can something finite mediate an infinite God? Weaving patristics, theology, art history, aesthetics, and religious practice with the hermeneutic phenomenology of Hans-George Gadamer and Jean-Luc Marion, Stephanie Rumpza proposes a new answer to this paradox by offering a fresh and original approach to the Byzantine icon. She demonstrates the power and relevance of the phenomenological method to integrate hermeneutic aesthetics and divine transcendence, notably how the material and visual dimensions of the icon are illuminated by traditional practices of prayer. Rumpza's study targets a problem that is a major fault line in the continental philosophy of religion – the integrity of finite beings I relation to a God that transcends them. For philosophers, her book demonstrates the relevance of a cherished religious practice of Eastern Christianity. For art historians, she proposes a novel philosophical paradigm for understanding the icon as it is approached in practice.
Author: Fergus Mason
Publisher: BookCaps Study Guides
Published: 2014-01-23
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 1629172219
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book tells the stories behind four ancient events you might have never heard before. The topics include: Pompeii, The Legend of the 49 Ronin, The Letter of Jesus This is a collection of previous published books, which may also be purchased separately.
Author: Devin Singh
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2018-04-10
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1503605671
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book shows how early economic ideas structured Christian thought and society, giving crucial insight into why money holds such power in the West. Examining the religious and theological sources of money's power, it shows how early Christian thinkers borrowed ancient notions of money and economic exchange from the Roman Empire as a basis for their new theological arguments. Monetary metaphors and images, including the minting of coins and debt slavery, provided frameworks for theologians to explain what happens in salvation. God became an economic administrator, for instance, and Christ functioned as a currency to purchase humanity's freedom. Such ideas, in turn, provided models for pastors and Christian emperors as they oversaw both resources and people, which led to new economic conceptions of state administration of populations and conferred a godly aura on the use of money. Divine Currency argues that this longstanding association of money with divine activity has contributed over the centuries to money's ever increasing significance, justifying various forms of politics that manage citizens along the way. Devin Singh's account sheds unexpected light on why we live in a world where nothing seems immune from the price mechanism.
Author: Alasdair King
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2024-01-29
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 3031406540
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Financial Image: Finance, Philosophy, and Contemporary Film draws on a broad range of narrative feature films, documentaries, and moving image installations in the US, Europe, and Asia. Using frameworks from contemporary philosophy and critical finance studies, the book explores how contemporary cinema has registered recent financial and economic issues. The book focuses on how filmmakers have found formal means to explore, celebrate, and critique the increasingly important role that the financial sector plays in shaping global economic, political, ethical, and social life.
Author: Beth Felker Jones
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2016-03-18
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 083089960X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHumans are created in the image of God, yet by choosing to rebel against God we become unfaithful bearers of his image. But Jesus, who is the image of God, restores the divine image in us. At the intersection of theology and culture, these essays offer a unified vision of what it means to be truly human and created in the divine image in the world today.
