โ Scribed by C. A Tsakiridou
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
This study examines the theories of postmodern visuality and representation and identifies concepts that resonate with Orthodox theology and iconography.
C.A. Tsakiridou frees the Orthodox icon from iconological precepts that limit its aesthetic and expressive range. The bookโs key argument is that poststructuralist thought is not alien to Orthodox theology and iconography. Dissonance, liminality, and ambiguity are essential for conveying the paradoxes of Christian faith and recognizing the hagiopneumatic vitality and openness of the Orthodox tradition. Perichoresis or coinherence, a concept in patristic theology that defines the relationship between the three persons of the Holy Trinity and the two natures of Christ, acquires a feminine dimension in the person of the Theotokos. Like the ascetical concept of nepsis, it has aesthetic implications. Intermedial qualities present in iconography, photography, and cinema help explain how icons become hosts to transcendent realities and how their experience in Orthodox liturgy and devotion has anticipated and resolved the postmodern disorientation of visuality and representation.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, postmodernism, philosophy, theology, religion, and gender studies.
Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
Preface
Introduction
1 The Icon and Postmodern Thought
2 The Image and Postmodern Art
3 Perichoresis as a Theotokian and Aesthetic Concept
4 Patristic Images and Neptic Encounters
5 The Intermedial Icon
6 Cappadocian Iconology
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
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