Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136787925
Total Pages : 2586 pages
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Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography by : Helene E. Roberts

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography written by Helene E. Roberts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 2586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998. The Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography compares the uses of iconographic themes from mythology, the Bible and other sacred texts, literature, and popular culture in works of art through various periods, cultures, and genres. Art historians now tend to study narrative themes depicted in works of art in relation to such subjects as gender and sexuality, politics and power, ownership and possession, ceremony and ritual, legitimacy and authority. The Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography reflects these new approaches by ordering the themes of various iconographic sources in particular biblical, mythological, and literary texts according to these new emphases.Each handsomely illustrated entry discusses the major relevant iconographic narratives and the historical background of each theme. A list of selected works of art that accompanies each essay guides the reader to examples in art that depict the theme under discussion. Each essay includes a list of suggested reading that provides further sources of information about the themes. A general bibliography of reference books is listed separately and can be used in association with all the essays. With 119 entries written by 42 experts, the Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography is an important reference work for art historians, students of art history, artists, and the general reader.

The Lives and Afterlives of Medieval Iconography

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Publisher : Penn State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271086217
Total Pages : 232 pages
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Book Synopsis The Lives and Afterlives of Medieval Iconography by : Art History Specialist at the Index of Medieval Art Henry D Schilb

Download or read book The Lives and Afterlives of Medieval Iconography written by Art History Specialist at the Index of Medieval Art Henry D Schilb and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does the study of iconography entail for scholars active today? How does it intersect with the broad array of methodological and theoretical approaches now at the disposal of art historians? Should we still dare to use the term "iconography" to describe such work? The seven essays collected here argue that we should. Their authors set out to evaluate the continuing relevance of iconographic studies to current art-historical scholarship by exploring the fluidity of iconography itself over broad spans of time, place, and culture. These wide-ranging case studies take a diversity of approaches as they track the transformation of medieval images and their meanings along their respective paths, exploring how medieval iconographies remained stable or changed; how images were reconceived in response to new contexts, ideas, or viewerships; and how modern thinking about medieval images--including the application or rejection of traditional methodologies--has shaped our understanding of what they signify. These essays demonstrate that iconographic work still holds a critical place within the rapidly evolving discipline of art history as well as within the many other disciplines that increasingly prioritize the study of images. This inaugural volume in the series Signa: Papers of the Index of Medieval Art at Princeton University demonstrates the importance of keeping matters of image and meaning--regardless of whether we use the word "iconography"--at the center of modern inquiry into medieval visual literature. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume are Kirk Ambrose, Charles Barber, Catherine Fernandez, Elina Gertsman, Jacqueline E. Jung, Dale Kinney, and D. Fairchild Ruggles.

Iconography

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253110725
Total Pages : 230 pages
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Book Synopsis Iconography by : Susan S. Neville

Download or read book Iconography written by Susan S. Neville and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-12 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I started this meditation on the first day of Lent. I hope to keep going every day until Easter. Each day I go fishing in the water of this internal voice. This week the water's still, this angled pen a blue sail; the hook is lazy in the estuary, the water the color of lapis. So what if I don't catch a fish? I said that I would fish; that's all I promised. I bait the hook with each day's discipline. I have no guarantees that there is anything at all to catch in these particular waters, that something beneath the surface won't grab my pen and pull me under." -- from Iconography When Susan Neville enrolls in an icon-painting class in the cellar of an Indianapolis monastery, she begins a journey into a fascinating hidden world where saints are fabricated of mineral and wood, yolk and blood, earth and time. The process is tedious, and she begins to make mistakes, to become impatient; she doesn't feel ready for the challenge. To prepare herself, Neville makes a vow to write during the 40 days of Lent. What emerges is a journal, a meditation, a series of confessions that we are invited to listen to as we follow Neville's sometimes painful attempts to reveal the truth and discover the mystery of her existence. In the layering of colors and moods, her writing is the spiritual equivalent of an icon. As she observes the world around her and applies the paint of language to her observations, she realizes that spirit and matter are not separate -- that now and then moments of meaning emerge from daily life, and the stillness and majesty of the universe shine through.

Transactions

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Total Pages : 432 pages
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Book Synopsis Transactions by : Ecclesiological Society

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Iconography of Religions

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Publisher : Chris Robertson
ISBN 13 : 0800604881
Total Pages : 350 pages
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Book Synopsis Iconography of Religions by : Albert C. Moore

Download or read book Iconography of Religions written by Albert C. Moore and published by Chris Robertson. This book was released on 1977 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Yeats’s Iconography

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Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789122430
Total Pages : 547 pages
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Book Synopsis Yeats’s Iconography by : F. A. C. Wilson

Download or read book Yeats’s Iconography written by F. A. C. Wilson and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served as an Irish Senator for two terms. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923, Yeats—along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and others—was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival. “This study is a sequel to my W. B. Yeats And Tradition, and the Yeats scholar may like to take all my work in conjunction; but I have tried to make it possible for the two books to be read independently. “The aim of this book is to interpret what Yeats meant by the symbolism of five of his plays, Four Plays for Dancers and The Cat and the Moon; also by that of a number of related lyrics. I should stress, once and for all, that I am concerned primarily with what the symbols meant for the poet himself; Yeats of course hoped that the ‘words on the page’ would work for him, and he also believed in a collective unconscious which would operate to suggest his archetypal meanings to all readers; but it can of course be maintained that communication fails. I myself doubt whether this ever happens; but I cannot prove this statement in a book not concerned with technique; and this is why I define my field as I have done. What Yeats believed his plays and poems to mean is a valid field for scholarship; and the meaning he attached is certainly the archetypal meaning, which is therefore my main preoccupation.”—F. A. C. Wilson

Iconography Beyond the Crossroads

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271093013
Total Pages : 241 pages
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Book Synopsis Iconography Beyond the Crossroads by : Pamela A. Patton

Download or read book Iconography Beyond the Crossroads written by Pamela A. Patton and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2023-03-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume assesses how current approaches to iconology and iconography break new ground in understanding the signification and reception of medieval images, both in their own time and in the modern world. Framed by critical essays that apply explicitly historiographical and sociopolitical perspectives to key moments in the evolution of the field, the volume’s case studies focus on how iconographic meaning is shaped by factors such as medieval modes of dialectical thought, the problem of representing time, the movement of the viewer in space, the fragmentation and injury of both image and subject, and the complex strategy of comparing distant cultural paradigms. The contributions are linked by a commitment to understanding how medieval images made meaning; to highlighting the heuristic value of new perspectives and methods in exploring the work of the image in both the Middle Ages and our own time; and to recognizing how subtle entanglements between scholarship and society can provoke mutual and unexpected transformations in both. Collectively, the essays demonstrate the expansiveness, flexibility, and dynamism of iconographic studies as a scholarly field that is still heartily engaged in the challenge of its own remaking. Along with the volume editors, the contributors include Madeline H. Caviness, Beatrice Kitzinger, Aden Kumler, Christopher R. Lakey, Glenn Peers, Jennifer Purtle, and Elizabeth Sears.

Iconography of Revanta

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Publisher : Abhinav Publications
ISBN 13 : 9788170170273
Total Pages : 30 pages
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Book Synopsis Iconography of Revanta by : Brijendra Nath Sharma

Download or read book Iconography of Revanta written by Brijendra Nath Sharma and published by Abhinav Publications. This book was released on 1975 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Present Monograph On Revanta By Dr. B.N. Sharma Deals With The Concept And Iconography Of This Deity In Detail. All The Relevant Literary And Archaeological Material Bearing On Revanta Has Been Taken Into Account. The Author Has, For The First Time, Given An Exhaustive Critical Account Of Revanta, Touching On All Possible Aspects.The Illustrations Have Carefully Been Selected From Ancient Art Relics Representing Revanta In The North And South India. For A Student Of Hindu Iconography, This Publication Is Indispensable. The Conclusions Arrived At By The Author Are Based On Adequate Documentation. The Relevant Sanskrit Texts Have Also Been Collected. Dr. Sharma Deserves Our Congratulations For This Handy And Useful Publication. The Present Monograph By Dr. B.N. Sharma On Revanta, Mythologically Known As The Son Of God Surya, Is A Welcome Contribution In The Field Of Indian Art. Among The Minor Hindu Deities Revanta Occupies A Somewhat Prominent Place Of Which No Serious Study Was Made So Far. It Is For The First Time That A Brilliant Monograph Detailing All The Aspects Of This God Has Been Brought Out, And For This Dr. Sharma Deserves Our Sincere Compliments.

The Art of Commedia

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Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042017988
Total Pages : 626 pages
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Book Synopsis The Art of Commedia by : M. A. Katritzky

Download or read book The Art of Commedia written by M. A. Katritzky and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2006 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian comedians attracted audiences to performances at every level, from the magnificent Italian, German and French court festival appearances of Orlando di Lasso or Isabella Andreini, to the humble street trestle lazzi of anonymous quacks. The characters they inspired continue to exercise a profound cultural influence, and an understanding of the commedia dell'arte and its visual record is fundamental for scholars of post-1550 European drama, literature, art and music. The 340 plates presented here are considered in the light of the rise and spread of commedia stock types, and especially Harlequin, Zanni and the actresses. Intensively researched in public and private collections in Oxford, Munich, Florence, Venice, Paris and elsewhere, they complement the familiar images of Jacques Callot and the Stockholm Recueil Fossard within a framework of hundreds of significant pictures still virtually unknown in this context. These range from anonymous popular prints to pictures by artists such as Ambrogio Brambilla, Sebastian Vrancx, Jan Bruegel, Louis de Caulery, Marten de Vos, and members of the Valckenborch and Francken clans. This volume, essential for commedia dell'arte specialists, represents an invaluable reference resource for scholars, students, theatre practitioners and artists concerned with commedia-related aspects of visual, dramatic and festival culture, in and beyond Italy.

The sensual icon

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271035846
Total Pages : 346 pages
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Book Synopsis The sensual icon by : Bissera V

Download or read book The sensual icon written by Bissera V and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Iconography of Religions

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004068933
Total Pages : 102 pages
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Book Synopsis Iconography of Religions by : Joseph Gutmann

Download or read book Iconography of Religions written by Joseph Gutmann and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1983 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jefferson and the Iconography of Romanticism

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230378749
Total Pages : 225 pages
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Book Synopsis Jefferson and the Iconography of Romanticism by : M. Kelsall

Download or read book Jefferson and the Iconography of Romanticism written by M. Kelsall and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-05-17 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jefferson and the Iconography of Romanticism is the first full-length study to examine how Jefferson, in the process of inventing the USA as the first new nation of the Romantic era, sought to find an appropriate imagery to represent the people, their homeland and the cultural ideal to which they should aspire. It examines in detail the role of his villa at Monticello in embodying the national ideal, shows how those ideals emerged and how they were subsequently challenged by the reinterpretation of Jefferson's iconography.

An Introduction to Iconography

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136614028
Total Pages : 174 pages
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Book Synopsis An Introduction to Iconography by : Roelof van Straten

Download or read book An Introduction to Iconography written by Roelof van Straten and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available for the first time in English, An Introduction to Iconography explains the ways that artists use references and allusions to create meaning. The book presents the historical, theoretical, and practical aspects of iconography and ICONCLASS, the comprehensive iconographical indexing system developed by Henri van de Waal. It gives particular emphasis to the history of iconography, personification, allegory, and symbols, and the literary sources that inform iconographic readings, and includes annotated bibliographies of books and journal articles from around the world that are associated with iconographic research. The author of numerous articles and a four-volume reference work on Italian prints, Roelof van Straten is currently working on an iconographic index covering the prints of Goltzius and his school.

Iconography of the West Front of Wells Cathedral, with an Appendix on the Sculptures of Other Medieval Churches in England

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Total Pages : 278 pages
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Book Synopsis Iconography of the West Front of Wells Cathedral, with an Appendix on the Sculptures of Other Medieval Churches in England by : Charles Robert Cockerell

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Iconography of Power

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520924062
Total Pages : 404 pages
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Book Synopsis Iconography of Power by : Victoria E. Bonnell

Download or read book Iconography of Power written by Victoria E. Bonnell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-02-05 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masters at visual propaganda, the Bolsheviks produced thousands of vivid and compelling posters after they seized power in October 1917. Intended for a semi-literate population that was accustomed to the rich visual legacy of the Russian autocracy and the Orthodox Church, political posters came to occupy a central place in the regime's effort to imprint itself on the hearts and minds of the people and to remold them into the new Soviet women and men. In this first sociological study of Soviet political posters, Victoria Bonnell analyzes the shifts that took place in the images, messages, styles, and functions of political art from 1917 to 1953. Everyone who lived in Russia after the October revolution had some familiarity with stock images of the male worker, the great communist leaders, the collective farm woman, the capitalist, and others. These were the new icons' standardized images that depicted Bolshevik heroes and their adversaries in accordance with a fixed pattern. Like other "invented traditions" of the modern age, iconographic images in propaganda art were relentlessly repeated, bringing together Bolshevik ideology and traditional mythologies of pre-Revolutionary Russia. Symbols and emblems featured in Soviet posters of the Civil War and the 1920s gave visual meaning to the Bolshevik worldview dominated by the concept of class. Beginning in the 1930s, visual propaganda became more prescriptive, providing models for the appearance, demeanor, and conduct of the new social types, both positive and negative. Political art also conveyed important messages about the sacred center of the regime which evolved during the 1930s from the celebration of the heroic proletariat to the deification of Stalin. Treating propaganda images as part of a particular visual language, Bonnell shows how people "read" them—relying on their habits of seeing and interpreting folk, religious, commercial, and political art (both before and after 1917) as well as the fine art traditions of Russia and the West. Drawing on monumental sculpture and holiday displays as well as posters, the study traces the way Soviet propaganda art shaped the mentality of the Russian people (the legacy is present even today) and was itself shaped by popular attitudes and assumptions. Iconography of Power includes posters dating from the final decades of the old regime to the death of Stalin, located by the author in Russian, American, and English libraries and archives. One hundred exceptionally striking posters are reproduced in the book, many of them never before published. Bonnell places these posters in a historical context and provides a provocative account of the evolution of the visual discourse on power in Soviet Russia.

Current Approaches and New Perspectives in Aegean Iconography

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Publisher : Presses universitaires de Louvain
ISBN 13 : 2875589687
Total Pages : 411 pages
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Book Synopsis Current Approaches and New Perspectives in Aegean Iconography by : Fritz Blakolmer

Download or read book Current Approaches and New Perspectives in Aegean Iconography written by Fritz Blakolmer and published by Presses universitaires de Louvain. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this volume is to present an overview of current trends and individual methodological attempts towards arriving at an adequate understanding of Minoan, Cycladic, and Mycenaean iconography.

Lee, Shakespeare and a Tertium Quid

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Total Pages : 200 pages
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Book Synopsis Lee, Shakespeare and a Tertium Quid by : Sir Granville George Greenwood

Download or read book Lee, Shakespeare and a Tertium Quid written by Sir Granville George Greenwood and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: