Bild und Kult

Name: Bild und Kult
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ISBN: 9780226042152

ISBN-10: 0226042154

ISBN-13: 9780226042152

Edition: 1993

Authors: Hans Belting, Edmund Jephcott

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Before the Renaissance and Reformation, holy images were treated not as "art" but as objects of veneration which possessed the tangible presence of the Holy. In this magisterial book, Hans Belting traces the long history of the sacral image and its changing role in European culture. Likeness and Presence looks at the beliefs, superstitions, hopes, and fears that come into play as people handle and respond to sacred images, and presents a compelling interpretation of the place of the image in Western history. "A rarity within its genre—an art-historical analysis of iconography which is itself iconoclastic. . . . One of the most intellectually exciting and historically grounded…

Book details

List price: $74.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/15/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 676
Size: 0.69" wide x 0.94" long x 0.16" tall
Weight: 2.904
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Foreword



Introduction



The Power of Images and the Limitations of Theologians



Portrait and Memory



The Images' Loss of Power and Their New Role as Art



The Icon from a Modern Perspective and in Light of Its History



The ""Painter's Manual of Mount Athos"" and Romanticism



The Rediscovery of the Icon in Russia



Italian Panel Painting as the Heir to the Icon



The Discoveries in Rome and at Mount Sinai



Problems with a History of the Icon: The Deficiency of a History