Iconotropy and Cult Images from the Ancient to Modern World
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Introduction: Iconotropy and the Alteration of Religious Images -- Robert Graves and the Legacy of His Proposal -- Images, Myths and Shifting Identities -- Dynamics of Religio...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Milton
Taylor & Francis Group
2022
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| In: | Year: 2022 |
| Series/Journal: | Routledge Research in Art and Religion Ser.
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| Further subjects: | B
Idols and images
B religious art B Religion and culture B Electronic books B Iconotropy |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9781032030654 |
| Summary: | Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Introduction: Iconotropy and the Alteration of Religious Images -- Robert Graves and the Legacy of His Proposal -- Images, Myths and Shifting Identities -- Dynamics of Religious Interaction and the Processes of Alteration Undergone By Images -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 1 Sensuous Encounters: The Adornment of Cult Statues in Ancient Greece -- Introduction -- Ancient Cult Images: Definitions and (Archaeological) Evidence -- The Embellishment of Ancient Cult Images -- Polychromy -- Metal Ornaments, Jewellery, Inlays, and So On -- Textiles -- Anointments and Polishing: Ganosis and Kosmesis -- Perfumes, Wreaths, and Garlands -- Art Imitating Life -- Sensing the Sacred -- Touching the Gods? -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 Taming the Gorgon: Visual Iconotropy in the Archaic Greek Medusa -- Visual Iconotropy and the Gorgon -- An Unspeakable Horror: Agamemnon and Mycenaean Art -- Hybridity Takes Command -- Animals, Deities, and the Gorgon as Visual Marker -- Sight and Sound: From the Battlefield to the Temenos -- A Visual Symbol and Its Crisis -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3 The Religion of Theft: Stolen Cult Images in Ancient Greek Ritual and Cult -- The Gods On Parade -- False Idol/human Object -- The Theft of a Cult Statue -- The Palladion Court -- Euripides' Iphigeneia Among the Taurians -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 The New Life of Greek Images Outside Greece: The Case of Iberia -- Iconotropy and Ancient Images: an Introduction -- Greek Pottery Between the Uses of the Vase and the "Consumption" of Its Images -- Some Case Studies of the Uses of the Vase and the Image in the Iberian World -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography. |
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| ISBN: | 1000574180 |