Acheiropoieta - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Acheiropoieta write by . This book was released on 2020. Acheiropoieta available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Concerning Acheiropoieta, Or Not Made by Hands
Concerning Acheiropoieta, Or Not Made by Hands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Concerning Acheiropoieta, Or Not Made by Hands write by . This book was released on 2020. Concerning Acheiropoieta, Or Not Made by Hands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Releasing the Image
Releasing the Image - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Releasing the Image write by Jacques Khalip. This book was released on 2011-08-09. Releasing the Image available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It has become a commonplace that "images" were central to the twentieth century and that their role will be even more powerful in the twenty-first. But what is an image and what can an image be? Releasing the Image understands images as something beyond mere representations of things. Releasing images from that function, it shows them to be self-referential and self-generative, and in this way capable of producing forms of engagement beyond spectatorship and subjectivity. This understanding of images owes much to phenomenology—the work of Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty—and to Gilles Deleuze's post-phenomenological work. The essays included here cover historical periods from the Romantic era to the present and address a range of topics, from Cézanne's painting, to images in poetry, to contemporary audiovisual art. They reveal the aesthetic, ethical, and political stakes of the project of releasing images and provoke new ways of engaging with embodiment, agency, history, and technology.
Looking Through Images
Looking Through Images - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Looking Through Images write by Emmanuel Alloa. This book was released on 2021-10-05. Looking Through Images available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Images have always stirred ambivalent reactions. Yet whether eliciting fascinated gazes or iconoclastic repulsion from their beholders, they have hardly ever been seen as true sources of knowledge. They were long viewed as mere appearances, placeholders for the things themselves or deceptive illusions. Today, the traditional critique of the spectacle has given way to an unconditional embrace of the visual. However, we still lack a persuasive theoretical account of how images work. Emmanuel Alloa retraces the history of Western attitudes toward the visual to propose a major rethinking of images as irreplaceable agents of our everyday engagement with the world. He examines how ideas of images and their powers have been constructed in Western humanities, art theory, and philosophy, developing a novel genealogy of both visual studies and the concept of the medium. Alloa reconstructs the earliest Western media theory—Aristotle’s concept of the diaphanous milieu of vision—and the significance of its subsequent erasure in the history of science. Ultimately, he argues for a historically informed phenomenology of images and visual media that explains why images are not simply referential depictions, windows onto the world. Instead, images constantly reactivate the power of appearing. As media of visualization, they allow things to appear that could not be visible except in and through these very material devices.
Divine Inspiration in Byzantium
Divine Inspiration in Byzantium - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Divine Inspiration in Byzantium write by Karin Krause. This book was released on 2022-06-09. Divine Inspiration in Byzantium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this volume, Karin Krause examines conceptions of divine inspiration and authenticity in the religious literature and visual arts of Byzantium. During antiquity and the medieval era, “inspiration” encompassed a range of ideas regarding the divine contribution to the creation of holy texts, icons, and other material objects by human beings. Krause traces the origins of the notion of divine inspiration in the Jewish and polytheistic cultures of the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds and their reception in Byzantine religious culture. Exploring how conceptions of authenticity are employed in Eastern Orthodox Christianity to claim religious authority, she analyzes texts in a range of genres, as well as images in different media, including manuscript illumination, icons, and mosaics. Her interdisciplinary study demonstrates the pivotal role that claims to the divine inspiration of religious literature and art played in the construction of Byzantine cultural identity.
