Space, time, and presence in the icon seeing the world with the eyes of God / Clemena Antonova ; with a preface by Martin Kemp.
| Author/creator | Antonova, Clemena, 1970- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Ltd., |
| Description | xii, 193 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Ashgate studies in theology, imagination and the arts |
| Contents | The role of time in pictorial art -- The role of time in the visual arts : seeing a picture in the twinkling of an eye -- The doctrine of the purity of art -- The problem of pictorial time in the icon : Florensky and remembering things that happened the week after next -- The problem of time in the pictorial arts Bakhtin's chronotope -- On reverse perspective : a critical reading -- Implications of the term reverse perspective : reverse of what? -- First stage : Florensky -- Second stage : Zhegin -- Third stage : Boris Uspensky -- An alternative view : Karl Doehlemann -- Registering presence in the icon -- The cult of images and Eastern Orthodox identity -- The western position : a critical reappraisal -- Icon and relic -- Real presence in the image -- Classical antique sources -- Christian sources : Byzantine theology of the image -- A modern view : the icon as symbol in Florensky's writings -- Seeing the world with the eyes of God : an alternative explanation of reverse perspective -- A new definition of reverse perspective as a prerequisite for the present hypothesis -- The cubist background -- The theosophical background -- Classical Greek sources on divine eternity -- Christian sources on divine eternity -- Theology through liturgy -- Theology through the arts -- The present hypothesis in context -- Leibniz and the way God sees things -- Schopenhauer and art as a repetition of eternity -- Worringer's eternalization of the object. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2009017751 |
| ISBN | 9780754667988 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0754667987 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780754697381 (e-book) |
| ISBN | 075469738X (e-book) |