Space, Time, and Presence in the Icon (Routledge Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts) - Softcover

Antonova, Clemena

 
9781032243351: Space, Time, and Presence in the Icon (Routledge Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 103224335X ISBN 13: 9781032243351
Publisher: Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Clemena Antonova, Fellow at VLAC (Vlaams Academisch Centrum), the Centre for Advanced Studies of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
103224335X
ISBN 13 
9781032243351
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
206

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