The sensual icon

The sensual icon
Author: Bissera V
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 346
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Genre: Art
ISBN: 0271035846


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"Explores the Byzantine aesthetic of fugitive appearances by placing and filming art objects in spaces of changing light, and by uncovering the shifting appearances expressed in poetry, descriptions of art, and liturgical performance"--Provided by publisher.


The sensual icon
Language: en
Pages: 346
Authors: Bissera V
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: - Publisher: Penn State Press

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"Explores the Byzantine aesthetic of fugitive appearances by placing and filming art objects in spaces of changing light, and by uncovering the shifting appeara
The sensual icon
Language: en
Pages: 327
Authors: Bissera V
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Penn State University Press

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Today we take the word "icon" to mean "a sign," or we equate it with portaits of Christ and the saints. In The Sensual Icon, Bissera Pentcheva demonstrates how
The Sensual Icon
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Bissera V. Pentcheva
Categories: Icons
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Penn State University Press

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Explores the Byzantine aesthetic of fugitive appearances by placing and filming art objects in spaces of changing light, and by uncovering the shifting appearan
Hagia Sophia
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Bissera V. Pentcheva
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: Penn State University Press

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"Examines the aesthetic principles and spiritual operations at work in Hagia Sophia. Drawing on art and architectural history, liturgy, musicology, and acoustic
The Sensual Philosophy
Language: en
Pages: 178
Authors: Colleen Jaurretche
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

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Jaurretche (English, U. of California-Los Angeles) traces the development of the Irish writer's mystical aesthetic through his novels to its supreme culmination