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Icons and Power

The Mother of God in Byzantium

By: Bissera V. Pentcheva

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Icons and Power

The Mother of God in Byzantium

By: Bissera V. Pentcheva

Pentcheva demonstrates that a fundamental shift in the Byzantine cult from relics to icons, took place during the late tenth century. Centered upon fundamental questions of art, religion, and politics, Icons and Power makes a vital contribution to the entire field of medieval studies.

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0271048166

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9780271048161

The sensual icon

By: Bissera V

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The sensual icon

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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.

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Penn State Press

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0271035846

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Icons and Power

The Mother of God in Byzantium

By: Bissera V. Pentcheva

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The Mother of God in Byzantium

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SMART JOURNALISM

By: Bissera Zankova, Andrej Školkay, Iliana Franklin

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SMART JOURNALISM

By: Bissera Zankova, Andrej Školkay, Iliana Franklin

This publication is dedicated to disseminate the findings from our research project focused on the new media literacy for media professionals.

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Lulu.com

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1326264796

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The sensual icon

By: Bissera V

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The sensual icon

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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 icons originally manifested the presence of the Holy Spirit in matter. Christ was the ideal icon, emerging through the Incarnation; so, too, were the bodies of the stylites (column-saints) penetrated by the divine peneuma (breath or spirit), or the Eucharist, or the Justinianic space of Hagia Sophia filled with the reverberations of chants and the smoke of incense. Iconoclasm (726-843) challenged these Spirit-centered definitions of the icon, eventually restricting the word to mean only the lifeless imprint (typos) of Christ's visual characteristics on matter. By the tenth century, mixed-media relief icons in gold, repousse, enamel, and filigree offered a new paradigm. The sun's rays or flickering candlelight, stirred by drafts of air and human breath, animated the rich surfaces of these objects; changing shadows endowed their eyes with life. The Byzantines called this spectacle of polymorphous appearance poikilia, that is, presence effects sensually experienced. These icons enabled viewers in Constantinople to detect animation in phenomenal changes rather than in pictorial or sculptural naturalism. "Liveliness," as the goal of the Byzantine mixed-media relief icon, thus challenges the Renaissance ideal of "lifelikeness," which dominated the Western artistic tradition before the arrival of the modern. Through a close examination of works of art and primary texts and language associated with these objects, and through her new photographs and film capturing their changing appearances, Pentcheva uncovers the icons' power to transform the viewer from observer to participant, communing with the divine.

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Penn State University Press

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Audiovision in the Middle Ages

Sainte-Foy at Conques

By: Bissera V. Pentcheva

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Sainte-Foy at Conques

By: Bissera V. Pentcheva

The Monastery of Sainte-Foy (Holy Faith) at Conques in Occitania, Southern France, presents a unique case of survival: its golden effigy of Santa Fides is the earliest extant sculpture in the round in the Latin west, while the local eleventh-century architecture, music, and texts offer rich contextual evidence. Even though Sainte-Foy's statue and the narrative prose feature widely in art historical studies, the music composed at the site has fallen into a thousand-year oblivion. Bissera Pentcheva's AudioVision in the Middle Ages assembles in a highly innovative way, a wide variety of materials that help us reconstruct the visual and auditory experience of the medieval ritual at Conques. The eleventh-century Office of Sainte-Foy is here brought to life and successfully deployed as a new analytical tool to shed light on the staging and experience of the golden statue of Santa Fides and the narrative reliefs displayed in the abbey's church. Medieval art is silent in modern times. Often displayed in sterile museum galleries, it is most often presented without any analysis of the intended envelope of sound, chant, prayer, and recitation. Stripped of this aural atmosphere, these objects have lost the power to signify and to elicit affect. This exhibition restores aspects of the original soundscape to explore the inherent connections between chant and image in medieval times. It is the first to engage medieval art from the perspective of AudioVision-the simultaneous flow of visual and auditory stimuli. The focus is on the ninth-century golden statue and reliquary of Sainte-Foy at Conques and the traditions of its eleventh-century public worship.

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Aural Architecture in Byzantium: Music, Acoustics, and Ritual

By: Bissera Pentcheva

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Aural Architecture in Byzantium: Music, Acoustics, and Ritual

By: Bissera Pentcheva

Aural architecture identifies those features of a building that can be perceived by the act of listening in them. Emerging from the challenge to reconstruct sonic and spatial experiences of the deep past, this book invites readers into the complex world of the Byzantine liturgy, experienced in its chanted form in interiors covered with monumental mosaics and frescoes. The multidisciplinary collection of ten essays explores the intersection of Byzantine liturgy, music, acoustics, and architecture in the Late Antique churches of Constantinople, Jerusalem and Rome, and reflects on the role digital technology can play in re-creating aspects of the sensually rich performance of the divine word.

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Taylor & Francis

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135178689X

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9781351786898

Hagia Sophia

Sound, Space, and Spirit in Byzantium

By: Bissera V. Pentcheva

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Hagia Sophia

Sound, Space, and Spirit in Byzantium

By: Bissera V. Pentcheva

Examines the aesthetic principles and spiritual operations at work in Hagia Sophia. Drawing on art and architectural history, liturgy, musicology, and acoustics, explores the Byzantine paradigm of animation"--Provided by publisher.

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Penn State University Press

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0271077255

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9780271077253

Aural Architecture in Byzantium: Music, Acoustics, and Ritual

By: Bissera Pentcheva

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Icons and Power

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SMART JOURNALISM

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Audiovision in the Middle Ages

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Aural Architecture in Byzantium: Music, Acoustics, and Ritual

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Hagia Sophia

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Aural Architecture in Byzantium: Music, Acoustics, and Ritual

Aural Architecture in Byzantium: Music, Acoustics, and Ritual

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