1st Edition
Tradition and Transformation in Christian Art The Transcultural Icon
By C.A. Tsakiridou
Copyright 2019
242 Pages
by
Routledge
242 Pages
by
Routledge
242 Pages
by
Routledge
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Tradition and Transformation in Christian Art approaches tradition and transculturality in religious art from an Orthodox perspective that defines tradition as a dynamic field of exchanges and synergies between iconographic types and their variants. Relying on a new ontology of iconographic types, it explores one of the most significant ascetical and eschatological Christian images, the... Read more
List of Figures
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Tradition and Iconographic Types
Chapter 3: Iconicity and Eschatology
Chapter 4: Ascetics in Prison
Chapter 5: Sinaitic and Franciscan Theophanies
Chapter 6: Byzantine Encounters with the Dead Christ
Chapter 7: The Penitential Imagination
Chapter 8: The King of Glory in Italy
Chapter 9: Missionary Masses
Chapter 10: The Mystical Colony
Chapter 11: New Mexican Acheiropoietai
Chapter 12: The Greek Icon
Epilogue
Bibliography
Biography
C.A. Tsakiridou is Professor in the Philosophy Department, La Salle University. She specializes in the aesthetics of the visual arts, metaphysics, and Orthodox theology.
