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Space, Time, And Presence In The Icon

by Clemena Antonova

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • 15.7 x 23.4 x 1.2 cm

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This book contributes to the re-emerging field of 'theology through the arts' by proposing a way of approaching one of the most challenging theological concepts - divine timelessness - through the principle of construction of space in the icon. One of the main objectives of this book is to discuss critically the implications of 'reverse perspective', which is especially characteristic of Byzantine and Byzantining art. Drawing on the work of Pavel Florensky, one of the foremost Russian religious philosophers at the beginning of the 20th century, Antonova shows that Florensky's concept of 'supplementary planes' can be used productively within a new approach to the question. Antonova works up new criteria for the understanding of how space and time can be handled in a way that does not reverse standard linear perspective (as conventionally claimed) but acts in its own way to create eternalised images which are not involved with perspective at all. Arguing that the structure of the icon is determined by a conception of God who exits in past, present, and future, simultaneously, Antonova develops an iconography of images done in the Byzantine style both in the East and in the West which is truer to their own cultural context than is generally provided for by western interpretations. This book draws upon philosophy, theology and liturgy to see how relatively abstract notions of a deity beyond time and space enter images made by painters.
Space, Time, And Presence In The Icon and Visual Thought in Russian Religious Philosophy: Pavel Florensky's Theory of the Icon
Visual Thought in Russian Religious Philosophy: Pavel Florensky's Theory of the IconSpace, Time, And Presence In The Icon

  • Title

    Space, Time, And Presence In The Icon

  • Author

    Clemena Antonova

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Routledge

  • Published

    December 2021

  • Weight

    324g

  • Dimensions

    15.7 x 23.4 x 1.2 cm

  • ISBN

    9781032243351

  • ISBN-10

    103224335X

  • Eden Code

    5641935

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